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GIGLIO, Italy (AP) -- Searchers on Thursday found three bodies under the hull of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off an Italian island in January, an official said, raising the number of bodies found so far to 28 and leaving four still missing....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- In a dramatic end to a 32-hour standoff, a masked French SWAT team slipped into the apartment of an Islamist extremist Thursday, sparking a firefight that ended with the suspect jumping out the window and being shot dead in the head....

A soldier killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan on Wednesday is named by the Ministry of Defence as Capt Rupert Bowers.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Republican in the House predicted a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan is on track to pass next week despite clearing the Budget Committee by a razor-thin margin....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Republican in the House predicted a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan is on track to pass next week despite clearing the Budget Committee by a razor-thin margin....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Republican in the House predicted a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan is on track to pass next week despite clearing the Budget Committee by a razor-thin margin....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nice Internal Revenue Service refund check that many families eagerly await this time of year is down slightly from 2011 but still not too shabby: an average of about $3,000.

Through March 10, the IRS had issued 59.2 million refund checks totaling $174.4 billion, Douglas ...

DUBLIN (AP) -- Ireland dropped back into recession at the end of 2011, government statisticians reported Thursday in a worrying sign for the country's efforts to emerge from an international bailout....

PARIS (AP) -- France's president proposed a sweeping new law Thursday that would jail those who visit extremist web sites - one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree....

The BBC psychological crime show Luther been named best drama series at the Royal Television Society awards.

Three white Mississippi men pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes Thursday in connection with the 2011 beating death of an African-American man in Jackson, the Justice Department announced. Deryl Dedmon, John Aaron Rice and Dylan Butler each admitted to conspiracy and violating the 2009 federal hate-crimes law in last June's killing of James Craig Anderson. They face sentences of up to life in prison and $250,000 in fines, federal prosecutors said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Families canceling vacations. Fishermen watching their profits burn up along with their boats' gasoline. Drivers buying only a few gallons of gas at a time because they can't afford to fill the tank....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation to help startup companies raise capital by reducing some federal regulations won easy passage in the Senate Thursday despite warnings from some Democrats that less government oversight would mean more abuse and scams....

A painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh, after x-rays revealed an image of two wrestlers fighting underneath the floral still life.

A Florida court hears two British men shot dead last year were found with their shirts off and trousers round their thighs.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drawing a new election-year fault line between the parties, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to repeal a Medicare cost-control board that has yet to be named but is called for in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law....

Cuba intensifies its harassment of dissidents and human rights activists, according to Amnesty International.

A new project in the north of England is melting down guns and turning them into fashion and art products.

Kidney patients stage a protest against the private company running their dialysis unit after health care assistants were laid-off.

The Export Import Bank did not lose money on loans to Enron and Solyndra, as stated in the March 21 Political Diary.