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There is a risk of prison disturbances and compensation claims because of delays assessing offenders for release, the former head of the Parole Board warns the government.

The defense for John Edwards is scheduled to start Monday morning in the former presidential candidate's corruption trial.

Planned changes to disability benefits will go ahead, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith insists, saying that reform is needed.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political committee wants to bring them to the GOP's side....

Schools which find the best ways to spend the pupil premium could win £10,000, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On I'm Coming" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," died Sunday at 70....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On I'm Coming" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," died Sunday at 70....

Campaigners are warning that diabetes care in England is in "crisis" - with less than half of people with the condition getting the basic care they need.

Just one in five Britons is eating the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, a poll for World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) suggests.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The parents of a Boston University student critically injured in a New Zealand minivan crash that killed three of her schoolmates have flown to the country to be by her side at a hospital....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The parents of a Boston University student critically injured in a New Zealand minivan crash that killed three of her schoolmates have flown to the country to be by her side at a hospital....

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The Diamond Jubilee Pageant at Windsor Castle

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels....

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels....

Health services in the community are reaching breaking point in the UK, the Royal College of Nursing is claiming.

The Scottish government has confirmed that it wants to set a minimum price for alcohol of 50p per unit.

BOSTON — Seeing his injured Boston University classmates lying in a New Zealand roadway after their minivan rolled over, Evan White said he felt helpless.

"Our first impulse was to do whatever we could, but everyone had a sense of helplessness," Mr. White, a junior riding in one of three ...