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The Queen meets Wales' Grand Slam-winning rugby team at the start of her two-day tour of Wales to mark her Diamond Jubilee.

In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it....

DES MOINES, Iowa — The announcement that mad cow disease was found in a California cow drew a rapid response this week from the beleaguered American beef industry, which has been enduring one crisis after another for more than a year.

First, a severe drought in the Southwest cut cattle ...

William Hague denies claims that Neil Heywood - who died in China last November - might have been a member of British intelligence.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas officials say the Islamic militant movement has secretly chosen new leaders for Gaza, including previously sidelined pragmatists....

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- A hard-line Shiite cleric is meeting with the president of Iraq's Kurdish region to try to end a political crisis that has deadlocked the nation's government....

Ofcom asks News of the World publisher News Group for more documents relating to phone hacking as it decides whether BSkyB is fit to hold a broadcasting licence.

"People make mistakes" and it's to be expected, an official said, given the agency's long history. The remarks follow new reports of agents getting drunk and paying for sex.

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The lawyer for a jailed Bahraini activist on a lengthy hunger strike said Thursday he will seek a court order granting him visiting rights to his client....

PHOENIX (AP) -- The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration if the Supreme Court follows through on its suggestion that it would let local police enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's immigration law....

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- In the heat of France's presidential election campaign, the French government insisted Thursday that if the European Union didn't back its tougher line to fight illegal immigration it would lead to the demise of the continent's borderless travel zone....

Firefighters are tackling a blaze which has trapped residents at a tenement in the centre of Dundee.

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A military judge rejected a defense motion Thursday to consolidate some of charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history....

A top official at the Environmental Protection Agency apologized Thursday after being caught on video bragging that his agency's method of enforcing oil and gas regulations was to find a few bad actors to "crucify" and hold up as examples.

But his mea culpa didn't satisfy some Republicans in Congress, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are pushing ahead with legislation to protect the nation's critical infrastructure and corporations from electronic attacks despite Obama administration objections that the legislation fails to protect Americans' civil liberties....

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers on Thursday inspected the site of a deadly explosion that flattened a block of houses in the central Syrian city of Hama a day earlier and killed at least 16 people....

Chelsea captain John Terry can lift the Champions League trophy if they win the final against Bayern Munich.

A senior civil servant refuses at least 10 times to answer questions about his role in the row over Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and News Corp.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant didn't have any formal training or know the procedures before he re-opened a fog- and smoke-shrouded highway where a series of crashes killed 11 people in January, investigators said in a report released Thursday....