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The UK's trade deficit widened to £3.4bn in February from £2.5bn in January as exports of goods to non-EU countries dropped, figures show.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration says it is saving taxpayers billions of dollars in improper payments to vendors and contractors, the result of a concerted attempt to reduce errors and instances of fraud in outside expenditures. To better coordinate the effort among executive agencies, it is launching a new online tool to cut waste....

Police name two men wanted in connection with a raid on a Durham University museum in which artefacts worth almost £2m were taken.

Ryanair announces further cuts in its operations at Edinburgh Airport, with eight winter schedule routes to be axed.

Lawyer Mark Lewis says he is taking legal action in the US on behalf of three alleged victims of phone hacking by the News of the World.

A section of the M1 in Bedfordshire is closed for more than eight hours after a man died in a crash involving three lorries.

The chaos mostly stopped in Syria today after a cease-fire brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan took effect. Syria is experiencing "a rare moment of calm," he said.

A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake has struck off Mexico's Pacific coast, the second quake to hit the area in the last 24 hours.

Sony workers in Wales are braced for news about possible job losses after the firm said it was cutting 10,000 staff worldwide.

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Calling it an "oversight," George Zimmerman's attorney said Friday the neighborhood watch volunteer did not disclose that a website had raised more than $200,000 for his defense, even though his family told the judge they would have trouble coming up with his bond....

There are reports that staffers at Obama's Chicago headquarters consider Romney's candidacy a joke. One suspects, however, the adults there take a different view.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Brave, serious, diligent. That's how two Chinese graduate students who were shot and killed near the University of Southern California campus were described during a candlelight vigil attended by hundreds of students....

An aid worker's recent visit to North Korea indicates how the decision to withhold food aid because of Pyongyang's planned rocket launch will affect malnourished people on the ground.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two months after a 3-year-old endangered orca washed ashore bloodied and bruised in Washington state the cause of her death remains a mystery....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two months after a 3-year-old endangered orca washed ashore bloodied and bruised in Washington state the cause of her death remains a mystery....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- State lawmakers are calling for greater oversight of campus police departments after investigators blasted University of California, Davis, administrators and officers for pepper-spraying demonstrators - a police action that drew widespread criticism after a video went viral....

A man who defended his shop and his fiancee from a would-be robber who was holding a gun says he was worried he would get into trouble for his actions.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The lawyer for a wealthy heiress who provided secret payments intended to help John Edwards testified Friday that the former presidential candidate acknowledged the money had been given for his benefit....

Jury selection begins in a Greensboro, North Carolina, federal courtroom Thursday in the trial of 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

A female Bengal tiger and a male Siberian tiger have produced three cubs at a zoo in Mexico, despite being different sub-species.