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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation's food supply....

Sir Stuart Rose swaps M&S for a mobile app start-up

A tour of the courts and tribunals at The Hague

The Respect MP, George Galloway, has told the BBC that both Labour and the Conservatives have been "in bed with" the Murdochs. There have been calls for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to resign over suggestions he had acted as a "cheerleader" fo News Corporation's bid to take full control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges Tuesday in the Gulf oil spill, accusing a former BP engineer of deleting more than 300 text messages that indicated the blown-out well was spewing far more crude than the company was telling the public at the time....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges Tuesday in the Gulf oil spill, accusing a former BP engineer of deleting more than 300 text messages that indicated the blown-out well was spewing far more crude than the company was telling the public at the time....

Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar on Tuesday blasted the "world of fairy tales" that he thinks most Republicans and some oil and gas industry leaders live in, arguing that the Obama administration remains committed to domestic fossil fuels and any claims to the contrary are patently false.

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The owners of Detroit's aging Ambassador Bridge - the privately owned span that has a monopoly on commercial truck traffic linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario - are taking their fight to the people, seeking a ballot question on whether state officials can go ahead with a second, publicly financed bridge.

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President Obama describes US Secret Service agents caught up in the Colombia sex scandal as "knuckleheads", saying that most do an "incredible" job.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide an affair he was having and justified using wealthy donors' money to do it....

Nine Secret Service employees have now resigned or are being forced out because of a Colombia prostitution scandal.

Twenty years ago a convention on biodiversity was agreed at the Rio Earth Summit - but do we know how many species are becoming extinct?

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- President Barack Obama's visit to Iowa to talk about college costs is drawing attention to a surprising fact about a state known for education and frugality: its college students graduate with some of the highest debt in the nation....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- President Barack Obama's visit to Iowa to talk about college costs is drawing attention to a surprising fact about a state known for education and frugality: its college students graduate with some of the highest debt in the nation....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- President Barack Obama's visit to Iowa to talk about college costs is drawing attention to a surprising fact about a state known for education and frugality: its college students graduate with some of the highest debt in the nation....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- President Barack Obama's visit to Iowa to talk about college costs is drawing attention to a surprising fact about a state known for education and frugality: its college students graduate with some of the highest debt in the nation....

The Cutty Sark is reopened by the Queen in Greenwich to mark the completion of a £50m restoration.

JOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Six people were killed Tuesday in separate attacks on a central Nigeria village and a bar where patrons gathered to watch a Champions League soccer match, officials said, the latest violence to strike a region on the dividing line of Nigeria's two dominant faiths....

JOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Six people were killed Tuesday in separate attacks on a central Nigeria village and a bar where patrons gathered to watch a Champions League soccer match, officials said, the latest violence to strike a region on the dividing line of Nigeria's two dominant faiths....

LONDON (AP) -- News Corp. executive James Murdoch's behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign has spilled into the public domain, casting a harsh light on the British government's Olympics czar....