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As social networking website LinkedIn says some of its members' passwords have been "compromised", technology expert Tom Cheesewright explains what users should do to protect themselves from any potential risks.

A huge metal dock that was swept away by last year's tsunami in Japan has washed ashore in the US state of Oregon.

The body of a Welsh soldier killed in southern Afghanistan is being repatriated to the UK.

One in four women fail to go for cervical cancer screening in Wales, with Cardiff recording the lowest figures in the nation, figures show.

Pine-Sol's spokeswoman surprises consumers with hilarious results in commercial outtakes.

Games critic Johnny Minkley reviews the E3 convention offerings of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.

Former Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook says he "embarrassed the fans" with mistakes he made at the club.

Fashion designer Suzanne Lee has developed a novel approach to fashion design: She grows her own materials.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday to take stock of progress in the war and discuss plans for the troop drawdown, even as violence spiked in the south....

A passing police patrol prevented the landmark Bangor Parish Church from being destroyed in a fire, a senior detective has said.

BEIJING (AP) -- China, Russia and four Central Asian states granted Afghanistan observer status in their regional grouping on Thursday, moving to boost their influence with the impoverished, war-torn nation ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign combat troops by the end of 2014....

A search is underway for a schoolgirl who disappeared after leaving her Belfast home at tea-time on Wednesday.

Aaron Deveau, 18, is found guilty of a homicide after he caused a fatal car accident while texting and driving.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation's first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one - Robert Penn Warren - was named by the Library of Congress in 1986....

Metro staff across Tyne and Wear stage a 24-hour strike in a dispute over pay.

Papers fear Spanish banks fallout

Chinese state media say 17 people, including 12 children, have been injured in an explosion at a religious school in the restive Xinjiang province.

A nearly 70-foot-long dock that floated ashore on an Oregon beach was torn loose from a fishing port in northern Japan by last year's tsunami and drifted across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean, a Japanese Consulate official said Wednesday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Big Tobacco's success in branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in other states as votes trended toward the opposition....

A new crop of films is changing popular cinema