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Former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Lembit Opik urges Nick Clegg to stand down from the party's top job to focus on being deputy prime minister.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee....

BEIJING (AP) -- As a former U.S. commerce secretary and governor of Washington state, Gary Locke wasn't considered much of a heavyweight on human rights when he became the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing last year. Trade and maintaining smooth relations between Washington and its biggest foreign creditor were seen as dominating his agenda....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other....

The smell of raw marijuana coming from defendant’s person, his admission that he smoked earlier, and the small amount in the car not accounting for the smell, a search of the passenger compartment and trunk was justified. State v. Fogel, 2012 Ohio 1960, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 1726 (5th Dist. April 19, 2012).*

Defendant was arrested walking out of a building where there was a marijuana grow on the second floor, for which the officers had a search warrant. He lived on the first floor. He said he signed a consent as acquiescence to the officer’s claim of authority. He is entitled to a hearing on the motion because the only document tendered was the criminal complaint generated post-arrest. United States v. Morillo, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62590 (S.D. N.Y. May 2, 2012).*

There was probable cause to arrest the defendant for soliciting sex, so the search incident to arrest that produced a syringe was valid. State v. Cavalier, 2012 Ohio 1976, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 1738 (2d Dist. May 4, 2012).*

US hikers Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, who were held in Iran as alleged spies, get married in California.

Head teachers are threatening to boycott a controversial new reading test for six-year-olds in England if it is used as "a stick to beat schools".

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader....

Islamist fighters said to be linked to al-Qaeda destroy the tomb of a Muslim saint in Mali's ancient town of Timbuktu, officials and locals say.

Vince Cable says he feels "vindicated" at keeping executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp at "arm's length".

David Beckham tops the Sunday Times list of the richest people in sport in the UK and Ireland.

Legoland in Berkshire is closed for the rest of the day due to a power failure, but will reopen on Monday.

A tornado has ripped through part of eastern Japan killing a teenage boy and injuring dozens of other people.

A house in Hallsands is evacuated after a large landslide prompts fears the property could fall into the sea.

A Ben Stiller comedy is given a new title to avoid it being linked to the controversial shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.

A statue of football legend Sir Bobby Robson is about to be unveiled at the Newcastle United ground.

Liverpool legend John Barnes says manager Kenny Dalglish should be given time to turn the club's fortunes around.

Exeter City's director of football, the former Spurs captain Steve Perryman, is in intensive care after undergoing emergency heart surgery.