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The BBC's director general, Mark Thompson, announces he will leave the corporation this autumn, after eight years.

 

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The last straw for 17-year-old Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High.

Alton missed roughly 200 days of class, but Heather Dixon, the student intervention specialist who left ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple Inc. is finally using its $98 billion cash hoard to reward shareholders, saying it's instituting both a dividend and share buyback program....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- All 80,000 items in Albert Einstein's archives, including personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers and a poignant postcard to his ailing mother, are going online....

Newport city centre is going glass-free on Friday and Saturday nights in an attempt to cut down on glassing injuries, Gwent Police confirms.

Adele helps British musicians take their highest share of US album sales for more than a decade, according to UK record industry body the BPI.

FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) -- Crews in helicopters, airplanes and on foot resumed their search of woods Monday in south Georgia for a hot air balloon pilot who disappeared after his balloon was engulfed by a thunderstorm and sucked into the clouds....

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Officials in Somalia's capital say a mortar shell slammed into a house overnight, killing four people from one family....

A 17-year-old youth appears in court charged with internet sex offences allegedly involving up to 50 children.

The former head of military intelligence in Guinea-Bissau is shot dead by uniformed men just hours after polls closed in the unstable country, officials say.

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- A motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two small sons and one other child, the prosecutor's office said....

Apple says it will use its cash to start paying a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share to investors and to buy back some of its shares.

24 hours of news photos: 19 March 2012

The Duchess of Cambridge makes her first public speech during a visit to one of her charities in Ipswich.

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....

David Frum says Sachs' public bid for the World Bank's top post breaks with tradition in which presidents fill such jobs in secrecy

A gunman on a scooter has opened fire on a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing three children and a teacher, police say.

Yang Su and Xin He say the revelation of his lies about Apple should not divert attention away from the problem of Chinese labor abuse.

Douglas Rushkoff says whistleblowers used to point out malfeasance, but two ex-employees' publicly trashed Goldman Sachs and Google for business plans they didn't like

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A legal activist in Myanmar says a top rebel official who was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison on treason charges has been freed under a presidential pardon....