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A team in Perth, Australia, is developing what it hopes will be the fastest car on the planet.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he thinks a bloc of left-leaning nations should attend the upcoming Summit of the Americas despite their opposition to Cuba's exclusion....

Obama should do some fact-checking of a president with a superior record.

A British man says his world has been "turned upside down" after he learned he was facing extradition for an alleged attempted murder he was acquitted of 17 years ago.

Almost £2bn is owed in unpaid court fines and confiscation orders, official figures presented to MPs show.

At least 15 people die after a train hits a vehicle carrying passengers at a level crossing in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials say.

VIENNA (AP) -- North Korea has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to return, three years after expelling its nuclear monitors, the agency said Monday. The U.S. said such a move would be welcome but remained critical of the North's rocket launch plans....

US officials open an inquiry into the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a neighbourhood watch volunteer, which triggered protests urging his arrest.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Following a day of protests calling for the arrest of a Florida neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot an unarmed black teen, the U.S. Justice Department announced late Monday it will investigate the case....

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Gunmen ambushed and killed 12 police officers who had been sent to search for the bodies of 10 people whose severed heads were found in southern Guerrero state, authorities said Monday....

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Gunmen ambushed and killed 12 police officers who had been sent to search for the bodies of 10 people whose severed heads were found in southern Guerrero state, authorities said Monday....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They are lined up in the freezing rain, waiting patiently, stubbornly. All night. All for a few pairs of shoes....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for the family of a black teenager fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain said Tuesday that the boy was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone when the confrontation began. She did not hear the shooting.

Their phone call was discussed at ...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- The Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage has a sketchy memory of the night of the massacre, his lawyer said Monday after meeting his client for the first time....

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- The Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage has a sketchy memory of the night of the massacre, his lawyer said Monday after meeting his client for the first time....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan prosecutors have appointed a group of experts to assist in an investigation into the killing of a Chilean diplomat's 19-year-old daughter by police....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan prosecutors have appointed a group of experts to assist in an investigation into the killing of a Chilean diplomat's 19-year-old daughter by police....

China raises the price of petrol by about 6% and diesel about 7% for the second time in 2012, as it seeks to off-set the rising cost of crude oil.

Chancellor George Osborne is to set out plans in the Budget to give 20 million taxpayers a detailed breakdown of how their taxes are spent.

The body of Pope Shenouda, leader of the Coptic Church, is buried at St Bishoy monastery after a funeral in Cairo.