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French bank Credit Agricole reports worse-than-expected three month results, depressed by more write-offs of Greek debt.

A third suspect was arrested in the California death of a deployed Marine's wife, authorties said.

Wolves are set to appoint Norwegian Stale Solbakken as their new manager ahead of their return to the Championship.

Centrica, the owner of British Gas, says that rising wholesale gas costs will make supplying energy more expensive this year.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A flash flood swept through villages in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 27 people, authorities said....

Children as young as 11 are to be targeted in a major new drive costing more than £850,000 to encourage them to stop smoking.

NEW YORK (AP) -- At a birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a man beaten to death because of his sexuality said words couldn't express her gratitude. An 82-year-old photographer who chronicled protests in the 1960s called it "a new dawn."...

A year on from the attack by her boyfriend that left her blind, eye-gouging victim Tina Nash talks to Jon Kay about how she has rebuilt her life.

A father is charged with the murder of his seven-month-old son in Derbyshire.

The renowned British economic historian Niall Ferguson is to present the BBC's 2012 Reith Lectures, in a series titled 'The Rule of Law and its Enemies'.

Leaders of the global science community have issued joint statements to world leaders meeting at the G8 summit later this month in the US.

NYTimes.com: 2 Opinions on Stop-and-Frisk Report by Al Baker and Joseph Goldstein

In 2003, the second year of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s first term, police officers confiscated 604 guns through 160,851 stop-and-frisk encounters: a success rate of one gun for every 266 stops.

Last year, the police seized 780 guns through 685,724 stop-and-frisk encounters, meaning that officers made 879 stops for each gun found.

Critics of the Police Department’s street-stop tactics, including the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the falling gun recovery rate was a sign that the department was stopping too many innocent people as it made an increasing number of street stops in minority neighborhoods.

Marijuana Odor Perception: Studies Modeled From Probable Cause Cases, 28 Law and Human Behavior, No. 2 (April 2004), by Richard L. Doty, Thomas Wudarski, David A. Marshall, and Lloyd Hastings:

The 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution protects American citizens against unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. Although law enforcement officials routinely rely solely on the sense of smell to justify probable cause when entering vehicles and dwellings to search for illicit drugs, the accuracy of their perception in this regard has rarely been questioned and, to our knowledge, never tested. In this paper, we present data from two empirical studies based upon actual legal cases in which the odor of marijuana was used as probable cause for search. In the first, we simulated a situation in which, during a routine traffic stop, the odor of packaged marijuana located in the trunk of an automobile was said to be detected through the driver’s window. In the second, we investigated a report that marijuana odor was discernable from a considerable distance from the chimney effluence of diesel exhaust emanating from an illicit California grow room. Our findings suggest that the odor of marijuana was not reliably discernable by persons with an excellent sense of smell in either case. These studies are the first to examine the ability of humans to detect marijuana in simulated real-life situations encountered by law enforcement officials, and are particularly relevant to the issue of probable cause.

Most deaths of young children around the world are from mainly preventable infectious causes, experts say.

Support for Obama marriage stance

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Activists say Argentina now leads the world in transgender rights after giving people the freedom to change their legal and physical gender identity simply because they want to, without having to undergo judicial, psychiatric and medical procedures beforehand....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Activists say Argentina now leads the world in transgender rights after giving people the freedom to change their legal and physical gender identity simply because they want to, without having to undergo judicial, psychiatric and medical procedures beforehand....

The latest attempts to form a Greek government are said to be deadlocked, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more eurozone uncertainty.

Network World: Fight the Patriot Act and win. Next? Promise privacy, a surveillance-free ISP:

Nick Merrill, once known as John Doe, secretly fought for our First and Fourth Amendment rights, battled against NSL abuse, a gag order, excessive government secrecy, and almost entirely redacted documents from FBI counterintelligence. Living under such mentally-exhausting circumstances for years is bound to change a person, but Merrill believes it is "better to die on your feet than live on your knees" and is "hoping to do further legal challenges to some of the warrantless wiretapping laws in America.” What’s next after fighting the Patriot Act and winning? Merrill intends to create a surveillance-free ISP with end-to-end encryption that promises to put your privacy above profit. The Calyx Institute promises to be an ISP that will stand up to the government.

Using skin patches or vaginal rings as contraception comes with a higher risk of developing serious blood clots than the pill, according to a study.