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Thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to Turkey in recent days, say officials, amid fears the crisis is escalating as a ceasefire deadline approaches.

Salvage experts working at low tides remove over half of the 24,000 litres of fuel from a stricken cargo ship off the north Wales coast.

One year after 1,000 people staged a reenactment in Port Talbot of Jesus's journey to the cross, negative attitutes to the town have changed, says the town's canon.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring amid uncertainty about the economy's growth prospects. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy probably generated more than 200,000 jobs in March, capping the best four months of hiring since before the recession....

Northern Ireland's largest health union has called for a major overhaul of the governance structures within the NHS.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page has committed misconduct and should be dismissed, a military board recommended late Thursday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- As Holocaust survivors languished in displacement camps around Europe at the close of World War II, the U.S. Army gave them some of their first tangible connections to their faith since before the war: passages from the Talmud....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Sgt. 1st Class Shawn T. Hannon felt it was a privilege to serve his country and was proud to be a soldier, a job he did nearly 20 years while also working as a lawyer, his family said....

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- The Jewish springtime holiday Passover is known as a festival of freedom, but its hallmark is a litany of dietary restrictions centered on not eating leavened bread for a week....

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- The Jewish springtime holiday Passover is known as a festival of freedom, but its hallmark is a litany of dietary restrictions centered on not eating leavened bread for a week....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....

Eighteen Madagascan pochards - the world's most endangered duck - have hatched in a captive breeding centre.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says he jokingly told Mario Balotelli he might have punched him every day if they were team-mates.

A Texas judge sentenced a Mexican drug gang leader to life in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to murder and weapons charges related to the killing of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, officials said.

The suspected head of a massive smuggling ring in China, Lai Changxing, goes on trial in Xiamen after his extradition from Canada, Chinese media say.

Scientists have found new evidence that resistance to the front-line treatments for malaria is increasing.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited a naval unit credited with anti-U.S. feats....

OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over....