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A £5,000 reward is offered to help catch those responsible for a "sickening" attack on a grandmother in North Lanarkshire.

Lawyers for former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn are expected to argue in a New York court Wednesday that a hotel maid's lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault should be thrown out because his then-job gave him immunity from civil cases.

The LA Dodgers baseball club is to be sold to a consortium that includes the former basketball star Magic Johnson.

The Tibetan protester who set himself alight in the Indian capital ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit this week has died.

The government is facing criticism from petrol retailers and Labour for its handling of the threat of a strike by fuel tanker drivers.

For more than 60 years, the Central Office of Information has warned us, informed us and told us what to do, but now it is closing.

Rape survivors speak out about their experiences

Malnourished, bloodied, and bruised.

Few people have the courage to acknowledge that black and young has become synonymous with crime and, hence, suspicion. To make that connection does not make one a racist.

GPB News: Welfare Drug Testing Bill Moves Forward by Jeanne Bonner:

ATLANTA—Georgia lawmakers have passed a bill that would require welfare recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. GOP supporters of the measure say it would save taxpayers money but opponents say it’s unconstitutional and uncharitable.
Georgia lawmakers have passed a bill that would require welfare recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. GOP supporters of the measure say it would save taxpayers money but opponents say it’s unconstitutional and uncharitable.

The bill would target what supporters call abuse of a government benefit, namely the federal welfare program.

It’s similar to a Florida law a federal judge has blocked because it violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection from unlawful search.

I hope when the Arkansas legislature comes back into session they will adopt such a law. I can use the money after suing them for adopting something so fundamentally unconstitutional.

The search continued early Wednesday morning for a woman who was missing after a fast-moving wildfire devoured 4,500 acres in a mountainous area near Denver, authorities said.

Police name a man and his elderly mother from Cardiff, who died after falling from cliffs at Beach Head in Sussex.

Israel's main opposition party, Kadima, has elected the former defence minister and army chief, Shaul Mofaz, as its new leader.

A woman is arrested in connection with the murder of Simon Tang in Carrickfergus 16 years ago.

New legislation to allow television cameras into courts in England and Wales are to be announced in the Queen's Speech in May, according to reports.

A major effort is under way using an innovative British-built astronomical camera to observe the Universe when it produced stars at a prodigious rate.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father's Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture - but was turned down....

Drought conditions spread to parts of East and South Yorkshire, after the Environment Agency earlier declared affected areas of the South East and East Anglia.

Hundreds of Afghan women are in jail for "moral crimes", including running away and extra-marital sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

Astronomers detect vast amounts of gas and dust, including a strong carbon signal, in the galaxy that contains the most distant supermassive black hole known to science.