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Ugandan families tell of struggles with incurable nodding disease

Twelve people have been killed when a fire swept through a market warehouse in southern Moscow, shortly after another fire at a skyscraper in the city.

Scientists are baffled by a mysterious disease which has swept across parts of northern Uganda.

Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest memory chip maker, unveils plans to invest $7bn (£4.4bn) to build its first chip factory in China.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas man suspected of abducting his 18-month-old daughter after allegedly beating and stabbing her mother walked into an attorney's office with his daughter and surrendered late Monday, authorities said....

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Tiny translucent elvers - alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines - are mysterious creatures, floating thousands of miles from their birthplace in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before ending up each spring in Maine's rivers and streams....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Making a pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama intends to strike back Tuesday at a budget plan promoted by House Republicans, which the White House says will hurt the pocketbooks of working families....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is asking Democrats and Republicans to act on his "to-do list" for Congress, a five-point plan he says would create jobs and help restore middle-class security....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month....

Services on two of China's biggest micro-blogging sites are back after being partially suspended three days ago to "clean up" coup rumours.

The Pret a Manger sandwich chain is creating 550 jobs in the UK this year as the company continues its rapid expansion.

The US offers a $10m bounty for Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba - blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Science correspondent Tom Feilden reports on a new theory that dinosaurs actually lived in shallow water

The projected wins give Mitt Romney more than half the delegates needed to clinch the GOP race, according to CNN's count. FULL STORY

PARIS (AP) -- French presidential candidate Francois Hollande, leading in polls but lacking in ideas that stick in voters' minds, finally dropped a bombshell: As president, he would levy a 75 percent tax on anyone who makes more than (EURO)1 million a year....

A £75m programme to give young unemployed people paid work experience for six months gets under way.

Two British sailors injured when a wave crashed into their yacht are returned to land.