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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nice Internal Revenue Service refund check that many families eagerly await this time of year is down slightly from 2011 but still not too shabby: an average of about $3,000.

Through March 10, the IRS had issued 59.2 million refund checks totaling $174.4 billion, Douglas ...

DUBLIN (AP) -- Ireland dropped back into recession at the end of 2011, government statisticians reported Thursday in a worrying sign for the country's efforts to emerge from an international bailout....

PARIS (AP) -- France's president proposed a sweeping new law Thursday that would jail those who visit extremist web sites - one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree....

The BBC psychological crime show Luther been named best drama series at the Royal Television Society awards.

Three white Mississippi men pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes Thursday in connection with the 2011 beating death of an African-American man in Jackson, the Justice Department announced. Deryl Dedmon, John Aaron Rice and Dylan Butler each admitted to conspiracy and violating the 2009 federal hate-crimes law in last June's killing of James Craig Anderson. They face sentences of up to life in prison and $250,000 in fines, federal prosecutors said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Families canceling vacations. Fishermen watching their profits burn up along with their boats' gasoline. Drivers buying only a few gallons of gas at a time because they can't afford to fill the tank....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation to help startup companies raise capital by reducing some federal regulations won easy passage in the Senate Thursday despite warnings from some Democrats that less government oversight would mean more abuse and scams....

A painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh, after x-rays revealed an image of two wrestlers fighting underneath the floral still life.

A Florida court hears two British men shot dead last year were found with their shirts off and trousers round their thighs.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drawing a new election-year fault line between the parties, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to repeal a Medicare cost-control board that has yet to be named but is called for in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law....

Cuba intensifies its harassment of dissidents and human rights activists, according to Amnesty International.

A new project in the north of England is melting down guns and turning them into fashion and art products.

Kidney patients stage a protest against the private company running their dialysis unit after health care assistants were laid-off.

More than 30,000 Roman coins were found by archaeologists working in Bath in 2007, it is revealed.

DUBLIN (AP) -- Throughout the deepening debt crisis, European Union leaders sought to portray Greece as a unique case in special need of aid. They were proved wrong when Ireland and Portugal required bailouts in 2011....

Police officers in England and Wales are to be balloted on whether they want to be given the right to strike, the Police Federation says.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- At least 3.1 million Americans are employed in green jobs, a sector that now accounts for about 2.4 percent of the nation's total employment, the Labor Department said Thursday....

US President Barack Obama pledges to fast-track federal approval for the southern leg of the much-disputed Keystone XL pipeline project.

Scientists say a gene variation inherited from the grandmother could contribute up to 155g to a child's birthweight.

South African Branden Grace's progress at the Hassan Trophy in Morocco is hampered when he loses his ball in a bunker.