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The UK economy will contract in the first three months of 2012, taking the country back into recession, an international think tank suggests.

PARIS (AP) -- For Adlene Hicheur, France's biggest terror attacks in years could not have come at a worse time....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The survival of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul rests with a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology and, more particularly, in the hands of two Republican-appointed justices....

The government's nuclear power strategy has been hit after German energy giants RWE and E.On abandon plans to build two new plants.

Two UK-developed telescopes are used to make a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars.

The Barotseland royal household in western Zambia says it wants independence, accusing the government of ignoring a 1964 treaty.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich....

Co-operative chief executive Peter Marks says there are significant issues to be overcome if the deal to buy 632 branches of Lloyds is to go ahead.

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side....

The government advises motorists to refill tanks when half empty, as Labour calls for an apology over the handling of a threatened fuel drivers strike.

Ronnie O'Sullivan continues his domination over Mark Williams with a second-round victory at the China Open in Beijing.

CHICAGO (AP) -- With Republicans locked in a contentious and expensive primary, President Barack Obama has spent a small fortune in recent months to build and maintain a campaign operation that is larger, more diverse and more focused on November's general election than any of his opponents' organizations....

A Nottinghamshire man who claimed he may have been sleepwalking when he raped a teenager is jailed for six years.

You may speak two or three different languages but it is unlikely that you speak as many as 16-year-old Timothy Doner.

Appeal Court judges reduce an award to an actor who received a £1.7m settlement after his civil partnership broke down.

Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah is to be buried in France after Algerian officials deny permission for a burial, a French Muslim official says.

England lose six wickets for 31 as they are beaten by 75 runs in the opening Test against Sri Lanka, despite a gritty 112 by Jonathan Trott.

Two men accused of sending suspicious packages to Neil Lennon and two other high profile Celtic fans no longer face a charge of plotting to murder.

MADRID (AP) -- Flag-waving Spanish workers livid over labor market reforms they see as flagrantly pro-business blocked traffic Thursday, formed boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets and bus garages and kept some TV programming off the air....

Huge traffic jams snarled central Madrid Thursday, as Spain's first general strike in more than a year kicked off with nine people slightly injured in demonstrations, including police officers, the Interior Ministry said.