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Bee Gees star Robin Gibb, who woke from a coma at the weekend, has been laughing and joking and wants to get out of hospital, his family say.

Click's Spencer Kelly surrenders to the will of a machine which has its own ideas about where he should walk.

Police withdraw an appeal for information over an ornamental fish theft after discovering an otter was probably to blame.

BEIJING (AP) -- A top Chinese leader under scrutiny amid China's biggest political scandal in years called for Communist Party unity in a prominent essay published Tuesday that shows his authority holding despite the investigation....

A Brazilian actor died after accidentally hanging himself during the play "The Passion of the Christ," a local hospital said.

A sharp rise in the number of deaths in the Syrian uprising casts fresh doubt on the future success of a UN ceasefire monitoring scheme.

BEIJING (AP) -- The president of newly independent South Sudan is lobbying China for investment in his country's oil industry and diplomatic support in an escalating conflict with Sudan that's threatening to become an all-out war....

Chelsea's Fernando Torres says the club's battling qualities can help beat Barcelona in their Champions League semi-final.

Murdoch insisted Tuesday that he knew little about the scale of phone hacking by people working for the News of the World, as he continued his fight to limit the damage the scandal does to him and his family's media empire.

International envoy Kofi Annan is expected to brief the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, as reports of carnage in Syria steadily increase despite the council's agreement to boost the number of monitors there.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday dismissed as "disgraceful" an opposition claim that she was making light of sexual harassment by allowing the parliamentary speaker to hold his job while facing allegations that he pressured a staffer for sex....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Rebel fighters hacked off Jabati Mambu's right hand more than 13 years ago in Sierra Leone....

WASHINGTON — A group of high-tech tycoons wants to mine nearby asteroids, hoping to turn science fiction into real profits.

The mega-million dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals like platinum and gold out of the lifeless rocks that routinely whiz ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A once-mysterious $400,000 check written to a "super" political action committee supporting Mitt Romney's presidential campaign rekindled a nagging question this election season: Just how much disclosure is enough to satisfy transparency?...

Contempt of court proceedings against the former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain are due to begin on Tuesday at the High Court in Belfast.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Testimony at the criminal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards will resume with former aide Andrew Young expected to retake the stand for a second day in North Carolina....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Testimony at the criminal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards will resume with former aide Andrew Young expected to retake the stand for a second day in North Carolina....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wooing young voters, President Barack Obama is on a blitz to keep the cost of college loans from soaring for millions of students, taking his message to three states strategically important to his re-election bid. By taking on student debt, Obama is speaking to middle-class America and targeting an enormous burden that threatens the economic recovery....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- While George Zimmerman is free on bail, the police chief criticized for not charging him after Trayvon Martin's slaying remains under scrutiny, as city commissioners want to wait for the results of a federal investigation to decide if they will accept Chief Bill Lee's resignation....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The 20-pound spiked boulder was rigged to swing at head-level with just a trip of a thin wire - a military-like booby trap set on a popular Utah canyon trail....