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BEIJING (AP) -- No matter whether China makes a rare concession to allow legal activist Chen Guangcheng to leave the country with his family, other dissidents say they don't expect a broader easing of controls. Authorities may choose to tighten the screws on prominent critics to prevent them from taking encouragement from Chen's case to challenge the leadership....

A vice-chancellor who has been critical of plans to merge his university with two others is to stand down for personal reasons.

A British tourist who tried to protect a girl being mauled by captive cheetahs tells how the animals then turned on her.

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....

A man dies and three people are seriously hurt as a taxi overturns on the M40 near Oxford.

MADRID (AP) -- Attention Nicolas Sarkozy of France: Don't look over your shoulder on election day Sunday....

MADRID (AP) -- Attention Nicolas Sarkozy of France: Don't look over your shoulder on election day Sunday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He will need independents in November, but Mitt Romney isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He will need independents in November, but Mitt Romney isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney will need independent voters in November, but he isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He will need independents in November, but Mitt Romney isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He will need independents in November, but Mitt Romney isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record....

First Minister Carwyn Jones says Labour can build on big gains at the council elections and win an outright majority in the Welsh assembly.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is asking Democrats and Republicans to act on his "to-do list" for Congress, a five-point plan he says would create jobs and help restore middle-class security....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 11 years after the 2001 terror attacks, family members of some of the victims will watch via closed-circuit TV as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 11 years after the 2001 terror attacks, family members of some of the victims will watch via closed-circuit TV as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 11 years after the 2001 terror attacks, family members of some of the victims will watch via closed-circuit TV as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just weeks ago, the New York trio was down a man....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just weeks ago, the New York trio was down a man....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just weeks ago, the New York trio was down a man....