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The PSNI says identifying who rented a garage where a weapons dump was found after Constable Kerr's murder could hold the key to catching his killers.

New planning guidelines for England scrutinised

The mother of the murdered PSNI officer, Ronan Kerr, has says dissident republicans gained "absolutely nothing" through his killing.

BEIJING (AP) -- Family members of jailed prominent lawyer Gao Zhisheng said Wednesday that Chinese authorities have allowed them to visit him in prison, confirming for the first time since he disappeared nearly two years ago that he is alive and in good health....

HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI prayed for freedom and renewal "for the greater good of all Cubans" before the nation's patron saint Tuesday, but the island's communist leaders quickly rejected the Roman Catholic leader's appeal for political change after five decades of one-party rule....

NEW YORK — An off-duty police officer was convicted Tuesday of grabbing a schoolteacher off a street and sexually assaulting her, and jurors have been told to keep deliberating on some unresolved counts, including rape.

The jurors found Michael Pena guilty of criminal sex act and some counts of predatory ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the last of this nation's 50 nuclear reactors switching off Saturday, shaking banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said Tuesday it has entered a court filing in the case of a campaign treasurer charged with looting the political accounts of numerous Democratic candidates, but it would not respond to inquiries about the nature of the filing....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Newt Gingrich is dramatically curtailing his campaign schedule, laying off about a third of his staff and dismissing his campaign manager as he focuses on a last-ditch effort to win the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention....

Hong Kong's government wins an appeal against a ruling that could have allowed foreign domestic helpers to apply for residency in the city.

DETROIT (AP) -- A Michigan militia leader and his son pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing a machine gun, giving prosecutors their only gain in a domestic terror trial that was upended when the judge dismissed charges of plotting war against the government....

The number of international passengers using the HS1 Channel Tunnel high-speed rail line is two-thirds lower than initially forecast, a report finds.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Fiji's military government says it is taking control of the country's national carrier Air Pacific from Australian company Qantas....

US technology firm Apple offers to refund Australian customers who felt misled about the 4G capabilities of the new iPad.

A committee of MPs and peers recommends that bishops should remain members of a reformed House of Lords, but in reduced numbers.

LAKESIDE, Calif. (AP) -- The husband of an Iraqi-American woman who was found bludgeoned to death with a threatening note beside her made his first public remarks Tuesday and demanded to know what motivated her killer....

CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge has barred victims of the September 2001 terror attacks from claiming money an alleged al-Qaida member invested with a Chicago futures brokerage firm....

DALLAS (AP) -- Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Alps hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticulously documenting an often forgotten Nazi crime - the massive pillaging of artwork and other cultural items as German troops marched through Europe....

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

A musical based on the life of singer Susan Boyle receives its premiere in Newcastle, with fans travelling from as far as Australia and the US to attend.