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Two year ago the Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury was cut down. Was it an act of mindless vandalism, or something more significant?

A severe storm has left four people dead in Japan and injured many more, with telecommunications and transport affected in the north.

The BBC's Lizo Mzimba has had the first glimpse of the set of the new James Bond film, Skyfall, while star Daniel Craig speaks of the franchise's legacy.

Colombian soldiers and police speaking a day after being released by rebels tell of years chained to each other and the constant fear of death.

A man is shot in the leg in County Tyrone while his girlfriend and young daughter are in the house.

Chelsea caretaker manager Roberto di Matteo says the club are an "international force" despite never lifting the Champions League.

Oil has leaked from a cargo ship carrying 40,000 litres of fuel after it ran aground, leading to concern over the threat to wildlife.

About 20 cars are left with punctured tyres on the M62 after they apparently ran over metal plates that had dropped off a lorry.

Police investigating the murder of a 92-year-old man in the West Midlands arrest a 35-year-old woman.

The man accused of gunning down seven people at a California religious college from which he was expelled will be arraigned Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Few would quarrel with President Barack Obama's point that the Republican Party has drifted to the right in recent years, disavowing ideas it once embraced - even created. But making that case in a major campaign speech, Obama ignored realities in his own Democratic ranks....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Few would quarrel with President Barack Obama's point that the Republican Party has drifted to the right in recent years, disavowing ideas it once embraced - even created. But making that case in a major campaign speech, Obama ignored realities in his own Democratic ranks....

Forty-four years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of a Memphis hotel, the Tennessee city is overcoming what some call protracted guilt and embarrassment, and naming a street in his honor.

Chinese communities pay tribute to ancestors

Chinese communities pay tribute to ancestors

The majority of sportspeople prefer to be the one to beat going into major competitions, says BBC athletics expert Steve Cram

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate....

At least 10 people are arrested as French police conduct new raids on Islamist suspects in the wake of the killings by gunman Mohamed Merah.

A U.N. advance peacekeeping team is heading to Damascus to discuss deploying observers to monitor a cease-fire, as violence shows no sign of abating.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Mitt Romney is turning away from his primary opponents and toward Democratic President Barack Obama after sweeping three more Republican contests....