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Under pressure to bring down the high price of gas, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder will outline a proposal Tuesday to increase federal supervision of the oil markets in an effort to clip the wings of speculators who are profiting off the volatility of the oil market.

The mother of one of two men accused of shooting and killing three African-Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, earlier this month said Tuesday her son was "a very good kid."

A watch made of electronic paper raises $3.4m in less than a week on crowdsource funding site Kickstarter.

The man who admits killing 77 people in Norway began his trial with a closed-fist salute. What's behind this gesture?

Items that belonged to Mahatma Gandhi will be auctioned in Shropshire, including grass and soil from the spot where he was assassinated in 1948.

Coca-Cola reports a 6% rise in quarterly sales thanks to strong growth in the key emerging markets of India, China and Brazil.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The first challenge to the constitutionality of the so-called fetal pain anti-abortion laws enacted in several states has come from an unlikely place. So has the second.

Rick Hearn, the lawyer in the center of this fight, represents an Idaho woman challenging her state's abortion laws ...

The International Monetary Fund says "some optimism has returned" to the global economy as it predicts slightly faster growth.

Syrian forces are attacking opposition-held areas in the north and south and continuing to bombard Homs, despite a supposed ceasefire, activists say.

A teenager is detained for eight years for the killing of a pensioner during last summer's riots in London.

Prime Minister David Cameron offers help to China in its investigation into the death of British businessman Neil Heywood.

Tim Stanley says the man on trial for mass murder holds a distorted and paranoid image of Islam and multiculturalism that has been alluded to by Western politicians

The retired space shuttle Discovery lands after a dramatic flypast over the centre of the US capital, on its way to retirement in a national museum.

It's happened to most of us. We suddenly wake up and find ourselves disoriented, wondering where we are, and possibly mistaking a light in the distance for something completely different. Usually it's no big deal -- you shake it off, wake up and move on.

Police believe a flat fire which claimed the lives of a mother and daughter in County Tyrone was started deliberately.

James Ibori was a petty criminal who once worked for the DIY store Wickes, but he re-invented himself as one of the richest - and most corrupt - of Nigeria's regional governors.

WASHINGTON — The space shuttle Discovery soared over the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol in a high-flying salute to the nation's capital Tuesday.

The world's most traveled spaceship, hitching a ride on top a Boeing 747 jet, took a couple of leisurely spins at an easy-to-spot 1,500 ...

The African Union suspends Guinea-Bissau following last week's military coup, and calls for the "restoration of constitutional order".

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children are scheduled to be deported to Saudi Arabia around midnight Tuesday, almost a year after U.S. Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida chief at a compound in northwest Pakistan, their lawyer said....