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Seven crew members have been rescued from a stricken cargo ship that ran aground off the Conwy coast in rough seas.

INDIANAPOLIS — Austin Carroll was fighting insomnia when he turned to Twitter for relief and casually dropped the F-word multiple times, apparently to demonstrate to his followers that the expletive would fit almost anywhere in a sentence.

But his middle-of-the-night profanity quickly cost the Indiana teen. A few days later, ...

Since the early 1970s, the share of assets controlled by the five largest banking institutions in the U.S. has tripled to 52% from 17%. This has to change.

A historian using statistical methods to study digital census records says the number of dead in the US Civil War was 20% higher than previously thought.

Can Pixar's new animation save Disney's 2012?

Hello! magazine on a mission to show Pakistan's glamorous side

The President offers his vision for an uplifting second term.

An editorial reprinted from the New York Sun on April 2 notes that the president worries the Supreme Court might overturn a law passed by Congress. The Founders were quite comfortable with the idea.

In the age of the iPad, Argentina bans importing books.

And we don't mean in hockey. Try taxes, spending and energy.

The US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, says the Security Council must respond urgently and seriously if Syria fails to honour a ceasefire deadline.

Many of our most secular citizens—and some French people—may enter the kingdom of heaven before tight-fisted Christians. Thomas Meaney reviews "When I Was a Child I Read Books" by Marilynne Robinson.

Formal talks have begun to try to resolve the fuel dispute which led to panic buying at pumps over the past week.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it....

Nice bankers who claim ‘good is good’

A new financial institution set up by the government to finance charities and community groups is launched with £600m in funds.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- For years, hundreds of Texas ranchers have made big money on exotic antelopes, with hunters paying up to $10,000 to bag just one dama gazelle, a rare animal with short horns curving outward....

An 80-year-old US woman with little flying experience successfully lands a plane after her husband suffers a fatal heart attack at the controls.

URBANA, Ohio (AP) -- A landlord who found a woman's dismembered remains in her bathtub said he had felt compelled to break into the locked bathroom after her worried mother came looking for her....

Oakland is reeling after a gun rampage at a small religious college left seven people dead. Six months ago, eight people died in a shooting in Seal Beach, California. And just over a year ago, an attack targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona left six dead and 13 injured.