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Bolton Wanderers club doctor Jonathan Tobin says Fabrice Muamba was "in effect dead" for 78 minutes when the player's heart stopped beating at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

Chancellor George Osborne announces a tax credit scheme for animators and TV production firms in the UK during the Budget for 2012.

Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic reveals that he is on course to end his injury lay-off in time for pre-season training.

A terrier makes a full recovery after getting her head jammed in the centre of a spare wheel.

Italy's largest trade union, the CGIL, says it will hold a general strike over government plans to reform employment laws.

Sandstorm and heavy winds hit northwest China, causing disruption across the region.

CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities are flummoxed as to the source of mysterious booms that resonated again in the eastern Wisconsin city of Clintonville early Wednesday, and hope a public meeting will calm residents' nerves....

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The Interamerican Court of Human Rights has condemned the Chilean government for denying her custody of her three daughters because she is a lesbian....

Chancellor George Osborne has delivered his Budget for 2012, announcing that the 50p top rate of income tax will be cut to 45p.

Labour leader Ed Miliband says the Budget has "failed the test" of giving priority to millions of hard-pressed families.

Former Tuareg rebel Aghali Alambo, who became a close aide of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, is arrested in Niger on suspicion of arms smuggling.

While the 911 calls did not say that there was a domestic disturbance in progress, the officer could reasonably assume that when he arrived and assessed the situation, and that was exigency for an entry on these facts. United States v. Ladeaux, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37251 (D. S.D. March 16, 2012).*

Defendant lost on his arrest issue on the merits on appeal, so he can’t pursue it on a 2255. Martinez v. United States, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36781 (D. S.D. March 19, 2012).*

Officers had reasonable suspicion first from a CI tip that “Little Rob” was dealing meth from a red F-150. They later learned that it was defendant. Then, another officer in an “ongoing investigation” [never telling us the quality of this information] told this officer that defendant would be delivering meth and they set up surveillance. This was reasonable suspicion when defendant showed up. The traffic stop was reasonable based on a traffic offense. United States v. Harrelson, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 5612 (11th Cir. March 15, 2012) (unpublished)* [This case essentially says that a search on reasonable suspicion was proper because it never says there was probable cause for the search of the vehicle after the stop on reasonable suspicion or the traffic offense. If that’s what it means, it’s wrong. This may just be sloppy writing.]

VLADNIC, Romania (AP) -- Their origins are a mystery. The most widely accepted theory is that the Csango people of Romania's remote eastern Carpathian mountains began settling around the 13th Century, dispatched by Hungarian rulers to defend the kingdom's easternmost frontier....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq claimed responsibility Wednesday for a wave of attacks that killed 46 people across the country this week and said the violence exposes how weak government security is ahead of the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq claimed responsibility Wednesday for a wave of attacks that killed 46 people across the country this week and said the violence exposes how weak government security is ahead of the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad....

The French interior minister has denied the suspect in several recent shootings has been arrested, following reports on some French media channels.

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- French police were preparing to storm an apartment building in Toulouse on Wednesday to arrest a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida, a top police official said....

Huw Edwards highlights the headline announcements of George Osborne's 2012 Budget with changes to tax rates and spending plans.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Concealed by the night sky, the two aging Philippine air force planes unleashed a surprise high-tech weapon: U.S. satellite-guided bombs that whizzed down with deadly precision toward a long-elusive terrorist suspect and two other top radicals dozing with their men in Jolo Island's jungle....