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A town billed as the smallest in the US has been bought at auction for $900,000 (£568,504).

A boy killed in an accident on a farm in Symington in South Lanarkshire on Thursday is named by police.

Russia says Viktor Bout's 25-year sentence is "baseless and biased." Bout was dubbed "the merchant of death" and convicted of conspiracy to kill Americans.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, the Obama Administration’s energy policy has devolved into self-parody.

Ceremonies in Sarajevo mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, in which 100,000 died and millions were displaced.

Emergency engineers say plans to pump heavy mud into the pipeline leaking gas on board a North Sea platform can go ahead.

Bone tests have revealed that Recep Cetin, the waiter accused of killing two Northern Irish women in Turkey, is five years older than he claimed.

China's police agency names six ethnic Uighurs in a list of militant suspects accused of inciting attacks in Xinjiang.

The Law Commission has proposed the abolition of 800 antiquated laws, but there is a wealth of mythology about what is and isn't illegal.

Allan Little recalls horrors of Bosnia war, 20 years on

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A military board has recommended dismissal for a Marine sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page, including allegedly putting the president's face on a "Jackass" movie poster....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The twin reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant have been sidelined, more than 300 tubes that carry radioactive water will be scrapped because of excessive wear, and investigators are trying to figure out why tubing is rattling inside the lungs of the plant - its massive steam generators....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Students at the tiny Christian college where a gunman killed seven people and wounded three in a rampage this week are waiting for a police probe to advance enough to allow them to return to class....

The University of Arkansas has puts its head football coach, Bobby Petrino, on paid administrative leave after news that the passenger on the motorcycle he crashed this week was a 25-year-old female member of his staff.

A Monmouthshire couple tell of having to flee their home in the West African state of Mali following a military coup.

A US Marine sergeant faces dismissal for posting criticisms of President Obama on his Facebook page.

Chris Boardman exclusively tells the BBC he will end his nine-year association with British Cycling after London 2012.

President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi has died, doctors and officials say, but the lack of a formal announcement causes widespread anxiety.

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- Malawi's president is being treated in South Africa for an undisclosed ailment, state media reported Friday....

A Tuareg rebel group in northern Mali declares independence of an area it calls Azawad after seizing control from the government following a coup.