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A mother who subjected her two youngest children to five years of cruelty, including forcing them into unpaid work and locking them in freezing bedrooms, is jailed.

Kent H. Hughes says that traders will benefit from a period of volatility while long-term investors will do fine

24 hours of news photos: 8 May 2012

GENEVA (AP) -- Fighting in parts of Syria has morphed into local guerrilla wars, the Red Cross said Tuesday, where the number of prisoners remains unknown and 1.5 million people need help getting food, water, shelter, power and sanitation....

The political leadership of local government in Wales takes shape after big gains for Labour in the council elections.

Former Blackburn striker Kevin Gallacher fears the club will lose a number of key players following relegation to the Championship.

British soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are forced to abandon an attempt to climb Mount Everest because of the risk of avalanches.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett hopes for a chance at a rematch against Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as Democrats vote Tuesday on who will take on the first-term governor in a historic recall election next month....

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says in a letter to newly elected French President Francois Hollande, that "necessary decisions" must be taken to resolve the debt crisis.

A left-wing coalition that opposes austerity will try to form a new government in Greece starting Tuesday, after the center-right party that came first in elections gave up on Monday.

Yvonne Walker says 401(k)s can tip retirees into poverty, and that innovative plans providing guaranteed retirement income are needed

Volokh Conspiracy: The Fourth Amendment and Video Recording in Bathrooms, in Civil Commitment Units for Sex Offenders by Eugene Volokh:

Arnzen v. Palmer (N.D. Iowa Apr. 12, 2012) deals with an interesting and unusual questions: To what extent, if any, does the Fourth Amendment restrict searches in civil commitment units for sex offenders?

Unions and parents accuse councils of undermining standards in nurseries by employing fewer teachers and more nursery nurses.

Ukraine postpones a regional summit amid a boycott over Kiev's treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Honduran journalist and gay rights campaigner Erick Martinez is found dead two days after being reported missing, officials say.

PARIS (AP) -- In his last state ceremony before stepping down as France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy led commemorations in Paris on Tuesday marking the end of World War II in Europe....

Yannis Palaiologos and Theodore Pelagidis: Epect uncertainty and growing frustration as a new political landscape struggles to emerge

With tales of passport queue woes in the UK and overzealous security staff in the US, has going through an airport become a horrible experience?

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Bahraini activists convicted of trying to overthrow the state claimed Tuesday they faced abuse in custody and were forced to sign confessions, a defense lawyer said as a civilian court began a full review of their trials carried out under martial law....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Police on Tuesday broke up a demonstration by hundreds of opposition activists who had spent the night outside the presidential administration offices to protest Vladimir Putin's return as Russia's president....