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Convicted fraudster and former Lib Dem donor Michael Brown is in Spain where he is to face a hearing for extradition to the UK next week.

A French aid worker has been kidnapped in northern Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.

The number of U.S. soldiers testing positive for heroin in Afghanistan rose more than tenfold from 2002 to 2010, according to the Army. Eight soldiers died of overdoses in 2010 and 2011, Army reports also show.

After years of war, Somalia's women escape to the gym

Will China's car market continue to expand?

Life in the Dutch village with no roads

Norovirus has caused more than 1,000 hospital closures since 2009, according to Scottish government figures.

Decent housing, good health and clean neighbourhoods are more important to Scots than money, according to a leading charity.

The Maori actors who are putting a haka into Shakespeare

Charles Colson, who was jailed over the Watergate scandal and went on to become an evangelical preacher and prison reformer, dies aged 80.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction. His proclamations following his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his religious faith, were met with more than skepticism by those angered at the abuses he had perpetrated as one of Nixon's hatchet men....

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country, according to a published report.

The New York Times reported Saturday that Wal-Mart failed to notify law enforcement officials even after its ...

Fire crews tackle blazes at two separate factory units in Leicester leading to road closures but there are no reports of injuries.

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano continues to roar

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials sent a strong message Saturday that struggling governments must speed reforms or risk spooking jittery markets and raising the economic danger....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials sent a strong message Saturday that struggling governments must speed reforms or risk spooking jittery markets and raising the economic danger....

A British diplomat is mugged in London, leaving him blind in one eye, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office says.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz has stretched through decades and countries, from basements to rooftops and seemingly everywhere in between....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction. His proclamations following his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his religious faith, were met with more than skepticism by those angered at the abuses he had perpetrated as one of Nixon's hatchet men....

SANDY, Utah (AP) -- Utah Republicans denied U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch a clear path to a seventh and final term Saturday, forcing the 78-year-old lawmaker into a June primary with 37-year-old former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist. Hatch fell short of the outright nomination by fewer than three dozen votes from the nearly 4,000 delegates at the party convention....