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MADRID (AP) -- Spain's deputy prime minister is heading to Washington to discuss the country's economic crisis with the U.S. treasury secretary and the head of the IMF....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's reaffirms its AAA credit rating for the UK, saying it believes the economy is "wealthy, open and diversified".

CAIRO (AP) -- Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak's regime, has attacked his Islamist rival by saying he would terrorize Christians and lead Egypt to "the dark ages."...

CAIRO (AP) -- More than 10,000 Egyptians marched from mosques and protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in a show of strength by Islamists, demanding the country's ruling generals bar Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief and other ousted regime officials from running in next month's presidential elections....

A mother from Bury who admitted trying to hide her dead baby in a garden is given a suspended jail sentence.

Frank Gardner on the arguments for and against Bahrain GP

Newt Gingrich's dynamic style in his first months of running the House as speaker in 1995 reduced President Bill Clinton to asserting that he was still relevant. Now President Barack Obama seems to be proclaiming much the same thing....

Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....

Both presidential candidates are tending to essentials at this stage in their campaigns....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A satellite launch North Korea had hailed as a moment of national pride ended in failure Friday when the rocket disintegrated over the Yellow Sea, earning Pyongyang embarrassment as well as condemnation from a host of nations that deemed it a covert test of missile technology....

Mario Balotelli needs "professional help" for his disciplinary problems, says an official from the world players' union.

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office....

A rapist from Teesside, who preyed on two schoolgirls, aged 11 and 13, is jailed for public protection.

Few monarchs make it to their diamond jubilee, and in the past century or so, many of the world's royal dynasties have fallen by the wayside. So the festivities can carry a hint of relief and thankfulness, says historian David Cannadine.

Two people are arrested over the murder of a baby girl who died in a Yorkshire hospital.

St Helens survive a late fightback from spirited Widnes to book a place in the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.

Andy Carroll heads in a late winner to help Liverpool beat Everton at Wembley and book a place in the FA Cup final.

A computer hacker who broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider has been jailed for two years and eight months.

Two farmers are cleared of murdering Cheshire builder John Iveson who disappeared five years ago and whose body has never been found.