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Three men have been arrested by police investigating the alleged naming of a rape victim on the Twitter website.

Hundreds of bakers have protested outside Downing Street at the government's plans to charge 20% VAT on hot takeaway snacks.

Darryl Williams and Benjamin Kline were shivering before the speech even started, their black umbrella no match for the steady rain and brisk Philadelphia wind. Even as water hit their faces, though, they were smiling, excited at the thought of seeing Ron Paul.

A former soldier blinded by an IRA bomb is awarded more than £200,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal after he was bullied at work.

WASHINGTON — Expanding the prostitution investigation, the Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is checking whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama's visit last year to El Salvador.

The disclosure came not long after the Homeland Security secretary assured skeptical senators that the recent prostitution ...

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said that 500 UK troops will be able to leave Afghanistan by Christmas, because the Afghan army has been increasing its combat role.

Renewables can be a cheap form of energy within years, Prime Minister David Cameron says, as governments aim for global spread of clean power.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh attend a service of thanksgiving at Cardiff's Llandaff Cathedral, as part of a UK-wide tour to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.

Portuguese authorities say they are not going to reopen the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States has issued a fresh security warning to Americans in Pakistan....

NEW YORK (AP) -- They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight - and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic trilogy that has earned millions of women fans in a matter of weeks....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iranian-based Shiite Muslim cleric on Sunday published a religious edict that could undermine efforts to unseat the Iraqi prime minister and also signaled Iran's growing influence over Iraq's politics....

MOSCOW (AP) -- President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday defended his upcoming job swap with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a move that will strengthen democracy, and predicted they will rule Russia together "for a long time."...

The trial of two grandparents accused of the manslaughter of their disabled granddaughter is told their grandson was once arrested on suspicion of murdering her.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Thousands of people who survived Sierra Leone's brutal civil war a decade ago celebrated Thursday after learning that Charles Taylor had been convicted for his role in the conflict that left behind countless amputees and traumatized former child soldiers....

Jeffrey Miron says Wal-mart should be punished if it broke the law, but the law against bribing officials overseas is a mistake.

Nearly 10 times as many £5 notes are being dispensed from cash machines than in the summer of 2010, the Bank of England says.

LONDON (AP) -- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that he panicked when he closed the News of the World tabloid last year, one of a series of revealing exchanges made at an inquiry into British media ethics....

LONDON (AP) -- The rebound in European stock markets over the past couple of days ground to a halt Thursday following a mixed batch of corporate earnings and further evidence of a sharp slowdown in the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro....

24 hours of news photos: 26 April 2012