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SPRING, Texas (AP) -- A woman has been charged with capital murder in the shooting of a young mother and the abduction of her newborn son near Houston, a prosecutor said Wednesday....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, raising questions about how effective the unarmed force can be in a conflict that every day looks more like a civil war....

Will ads at the Olympics encourage people to eat fast food?

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's king issued a rare apology Wednesday, saying it was clearly "a mistake" to have gone on an African elephant-hunting trip during his country's severe economic crisis....

The Italian government slashes its forecast for the economy in 2012 and admits it will not be able to balance the budget in 2013.

Wales and Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans says a woman he is accused of raping was in control and "not very drunk", a trial hears.

NANTERRE, France (AP) -- France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says there's no shame in fighting so-called Islamization and insists it won't breed a mass killer like the Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik....

Teenagers get only six hours of sleep during the week after the clocks change, say researchers at the University of Surrey.

King Juan Carlos apologises to the Spanish people for going on a hunting trip in Africa while his country was in economic crisis.

The government defeats Labour's bid to stop the 50p tax rate being reduced in a Commons vote, following clashes between David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan....

Seven people from one traveller family abused and beat vulnerable men who were kept in captivity and made to work without pay, a court hears.

Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of suspected Afghan insurgents depict behavior that violates U.S. values, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.

The penalty for illegal street parking in Northern Ireland is set to increase from £60 to £90.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC is considering $4 billion worth of onshore projects in Nigeria to help capture natural gas currently burning at oil wells that contribute to global warming and can sicken those living nearby, the company's CEO said Wednesday....

LONDON (AP) -- A committee of British lawmakers called Rupert Murdoch unfit to run his global media empire - a finding that reflects just how deeply the phone hacking scandal born of his defunct News of the World has shaken the relationship between the press and politics....

Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged that it had been a "tough month" for him as opposition leader Ed Miliband branded the Budget an "omni-shambles".

Yahoo's new chief executive says about 50 products will be shut down or "transitioned" as part of his turnaround plan.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending....

Officers’ alleged failure knock before entry was entitled to qualified immunity or was constitutionally justified. The officers knew that a gun was likely involved, and the search warrant included weapons. Under Richards and Wilson, this was sufficient to dispense with announcement for officer safety. Youngbey v. March, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7630 (D.C. Cir. April 17, 2012).*

Defendants were moving around from room to room in a hotel, and vacated two rooms. The police had probable cause to search the rooms they were in as well as the abandoned rooms for firearms. A gun was actually abandoned in one of the vacated rooms. United States v. Albury, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53644 (M.D. Fla. April 17, 2012).*

Officers searching a computer hard drive had the benefit of the plain view doctrine when they came upon obvious chat logs and foreign travel information. United States v. Johnston, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53323 (E.D. Cal. April 16, 2012).*