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Newcastle Falcons appoint ex-Harlequins boss Dean Richards as director of rugby for the start of the 2012-13 season.

With parts of the south-east of England facing hosepipe bans, what options are there for preventing water shortages in future?

Thomas Vermaelen hits an injury-time winner at the Emirates as Arsenal close to within a point of third-placed Tottenham.

According to NASA, Christmas can go ahead this year — the world will not end on Dec. 21.

In a recent YouTube video, one of the agency's top scientists debunks various doomsday theories linked to the supposed end of the Mayan calendar. While some expect planetary collisions, massive solar storms ...

BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger will plead guilty to helping him evade capture but won't testify against him at his trial, prosecutors and relatives of people he's accused of killing said Monday....

BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger will plead guilty to helping him evade capture but won't testify against him at his trial, prosecutors and relatives of people he's accused of killing said Monday....

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) -- Researchers may have discovered traces of a lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci by poking a probe through cracks in a 16th-century fresco painted on the wall of one of Florence's most famous buildings....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Rick Santorum is spending early Tuesday with his family at their home near Washington as voters in Mississippi and Alabama weigh in on the Republican presidential field....

A 38-year-old woman dies after her car crashed into a wall in Edinburgh on Monday evening.

The funeral of award-winning war reporter Marie Colvin, killed by shelling in the Syrian city of Homs, takes place in Long Island, New York.

The capital of the US state of New Jersey faces running out of toilet paper following a months-long dispute over costs.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Jurors in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man will not hear directly from the defendant.

Dharun Ravi's defense lawyer rested his case Monday without calling Mr. Ravi to testify.

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Four Turkish journalists were freed from jail Monday, a year after they were detained in a case that has raised fears for press freedom in the country. Two pledged to immediately tackle sensitive subjects again, including the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist....

Barack Obama vows that US forces will not "rush for the exits" in Afghanistan, after a soldier is detained accused of murdering 16 civilians.

A 24-year-old serving soldier is arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman in Greater Manchester, police say.

The primary process is good for the Republican Party?and our country.

A Texas voter ID law has been rejected by the US justice department, which says that it could discriminate against Hispanic voters.

A letter penned on board the Titanic by a Belfast doctor to his mother is to be brought back to Belfast for an exhibition.

MPs block changes to the Commons code of conduct which would have given the standards watchdog greater powers to investigate their private lives.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A photo ID requirement for voters in Texas could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of registered Hispanics, the Justice Department declared Monday in its latest move against Republican-led voting changes in many states that have drawn protests from minorities, poor people and students....