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Owner JP McManus says the Grand National "should not be devalued" in future after the deaths of two horses, including his Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised

Three people are arrested by police investigating the murders of a family of four in Northamptonshire.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- After her family's farmhand went to prison for burglary in 1983, Carol Klima wrote the Ohio Parole Board to support his bid for early release....

The first steel slab is produced at the SSI plant in Redcar more than two years after the former Corus site is mothballed.

SPRING, Texas (AP) -- A woman has been charged with capital murder in the shooting of a young mother and the abduction of her newborn son near Houston, a prosecutor said Wednesday....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, raising questions about how effective the unarmed force can be in a conflict that every day looks more like a civil war....

Will ads at the Olympics encourage people to eat fast food?

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's king issued a rare apology Wednesday, saying it was clearly "a mistake" to have gone on an African elephant-hunting trip during his country's severe economic crisis....

The Italian government slashes its forecast for the economy in 2012 and admits it will not be able to balance the budget in 2013.

Wales and Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans says a woman he is accused of raping was in control and "not very drunk", a trial hears.

NANTERRE, France (AP) -- France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says there's no shame in fighting so-called Islamization and insists it won't breed a mass killer like the Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik....

Teenagers get only six hours of sleep during the week after the clocks change, say researchers at the University of Surrey.

King Juan Carlos apologises to the Spanish people for going on a hunting trip in Africa while his country was in economic crisis.

The government defeats Labour's bid to stop the 50p tax rate being reduced in a Commons vote, following clashes between David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan....

Seven people from one traveller family abused and beat vulnerable men who were kept in captivity and made to work without pay, a court hears.

Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of suspected Afghan insurgents depict behavior that violates U.S. values, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.

The penalty for illegal street parking in Northern Ireland is set to increase from £60 to £90.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC is considering $4 billion worth of onshore projects in Nigeria to help capture natural gas currently burning at oil wells that contribute to global warming and can sicken those living nearby, the company's CEO said Wednesday....

LONDON (AP) -- A committee of British lawmakers called Rupert Murdoch unfit to run his global media empire - a finding that reflects just how deeply the phone hacking scandal born of his defunct News of the World has shaken the relationship between the press and politics....