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Armed police in the French city of Toulouse

LOMMEL, Belgium (AP) -- King Albert II and thousands of mourners attended a memorial service Wednesday for victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel that killed 22 children and six adults....

BEIJING (AP) -- The Chinese government said Wednesday that lawyers are now required to swear allegiance to the Communist Party, a move criticized by prominent human rights lawyers who have defended the authoritarian government's critics....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- After declaring victories in getting federal and state officials to investigate the case of an unarmed black teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain, civil rights leaders continued to pressure authorities to make an arrest....

Libya's deputy PM says Mauritania will extradite Gaddafi intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, but there is no official confirmation.

Judith Tebbutt released by kidnappers

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Relatives sobbed inconsolably by the gravesides of a rabbi and three children gunned down at a Jewish school in France and brought to Jerusalem for burial on Wednesday....

By disrupting the behaviour of animals that disperse plant seeds man-made noise could be transforming our landscape, scientists say.

Former Emmerdale actress Jenna-Louise Coleman lands the role of the Time Lord's new companion in Doctor Who, the BBC confirms.

The University of Wales warns it may make redundancies after launching a consultation with staff and unions with a view to "restructuring".

Three teenagers are questioned over the murder of a surgeon found outside his Cheshire home.

Rock star Brian May welcomes a Welsh government decision to drop plans to cull badgers as part of an attempt to eradicate bovine TB in cattle.

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- French police surrounded an apartment building where a gunman claiming al-Qaida links and suspected in the killings of three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers barricaded himself Wednesday and stopped talking to negotiators....

A government quango has apologised after thousands of students' email addresses were sent to other customers.

SEATTLE (AP) -- A day before the public learned the name of the soldier accused of methodically slaughtering 16 civilians in Afghanistan, his lawyer called a news conference and sketched a different portrait of Robert Bales: that of a loving father and devoted husband who had been traumatized by a comrade's injury and sent into combat one too many times....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A day before the public learned the name of the soldier accused of methodically slaughtering 16 civilians in Afghanistan, his lawyer called a news conference and sketched a different portrait of Robert Bales: that of a loving father and devoted husband who had been traumatized by a comrade's injury and sent into combat one too many times....

A memorial service is held in northern Belgium for 15 children and two adults killed in last week's coach crash in a Swiss tunnel.

Interest rate setters at the Bank of England express concern over rising oil prices in minutes from the March meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee.

The health minister wants to see 95% of patients in A&E departments admittted or discharged within four hours.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some takeaways from Tuesday's Republican presidential primary in Illinois:...