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The government made a mistake in advising people to store petrol in jerrycans to prepare for a possible strike by fuel tanker drivers, a minister says.

Pope Benedict XVI criticises the 50-year-old US trade embargo on Cuba and calls for greater rights as he ends his visit to the island.

Earl Scruggs, who as a child developed the distinctive picking style that forever changed banjo playing, and whose association with Lester Flatt cemented bluegrass music's place in popular culture, died Wednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital, his son Gary Scruggs said. He was 88.

It is time for Newt Gingrich to lend his mind to the next likely Republican nominee for president -- Mitt Romney.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida endorsed Mitt Romney as the party's presidential nominee Wednesday night, saying it's increasingly clear that Romney will win the nomination and that continuing the primary fight will only damage the effort to defeat President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney insisted Sunday that Democrat Barack Obama is a "president who is dividing America" as he kicked off a two-day campaign swing that will feature Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American Florida senator considered as a top potential choice for vice president....

Teachers in Nottingham walk out on strike over proposed changes to terms, forcing several schools to shut for the day.

HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba drew nearly 300 Americans to the island they or their parents long ago fled. What they found was a country that was different from the one they had imagined, yet somehow still close to the place they had dreamed of....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor Wednesday deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor Wednesday deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber....

Economic growth, not redistribution, has been the surest cure for poverty.

TOKYO (AP) -- Three death row inmates have been executed by hanging in Japan, the country's first executions in more than a year and a half, according to media reports....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has voted to decisively reject a bipartisan budget mixing tax increases with spending cuts to wring $4 trillion from federal deficits over the coming decade....

Florida senator and conservative favourite Marco Rubio endorses Mitt Romney in the race for the US Republican presidential nomination.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the latest likely case of an insider attack, an American service member was killed and several others injured Monday when individuals dressed in Afghan police uniforms turned their guns on them in southern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said....

The RSPB's annual wildlife survey has recorded the lowest number of starlings in UK gardens for 30 years.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface....

Most universities in England are going to have fewer places to offer students this year, as the funding changes in higher education are implemented.

A century of experience shows that rules lead to prosperity and discretion leads to trouble.

A significant number of arts companies who lost all their core Arts Council England funding last year have shut down or are closing, research reveals.