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TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- A French police official says that a gunman who had taken four people hostage in a bank in Toulouse has been captured, and the hostages released....

Washington Post | Cancellation of insurance bond prompts Russian ship with Syrian helicopters to turn back.

A Pakistan People's Party meeting to discuss a new PM ends without any announcement, a day after Yousuf Raza Gilani was disqualified by the top court.

LONDON (AP) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has entered the Ecuador Embassy in London seeking asylum. Some prominent cases of other asylum seekers taking shelter in embassies over the years:...

A coroner criticises the fashion industry and magazines over the death of a 14-year-old girl in Somerset.

Six of Wales' seven local health boards expect a combined deficit of around £230m this financial year, it is revealed.

Conflicting reports swirled Wednesday about the health of former President Hosni Mubarak as a power struggle looms over his successor more than a year after he was ousted in a popular uprising.

The directors of Edinburgh's failed trams company received hundreds of thousands of pounds in severance payments, it is revealed.

CNN's Jim Acosta follows Mitt Romney on his bus tour to loosen up and reintroduce himself on the campaign trail.

Steve Watson | "He has the delegates, but he doesn’t have the hearts and the minds of the people"

The Justice Department says President Obama has asserted executive privilege over the Fast and Furious-related documents the House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed from Attorney General Eric Holder.

David Maraniss, author of a biography of Pres. Obama, addresses the controversy over his book & how the GOP responded.

Bill Anderson | Prosecutorial, police, and judicial misconduct is now the norm.

Murders in El Salvador drop from an average of 14 a day to five, police figures show, as a street gang truce passes three months.

A woman from Lancashire who stole £200,000 from her employers to pay for her lavish wedding is jailed.

Greece is hopeful a government could be formed as early as Wednesday after the leaders of three political parties signaled that talks among them were going well.

The UK is to get a new judge at the European Court of Human Rights, but some Tory MPs are unhappy with the candidates put forward.

Peter Bergen says the leaks haven't put American interests at risk and have made public information that should be discussed

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli aircraft fired missiles Wednesday at Gaza militants involved in a deadly infiltration from Egypt earlier in the week, killing one and severely wounding the other, the military claimed. It was Israel's first official linking of the ambush to Gaza militants....

The former chief of the All Wales Ethnic Minority Association sexually harassed a worker, it is claimed at an employment tribunal.