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A man is jailed for life after admitting beheading a restaurant manager at a golf club in Oxfordshire.

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- A motorcycle assailant opened fire with two handguns Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a schoolgirl. One of the same guns was fired in other deadly motorcyle attacks in the area in recent days, officials said....

Four people shot dead at a Jewish school

Students in the US state of Florida rally to demand the arrest of a community watch volunteer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager.

A Zimbabwean court convicts six activists of inciting public violence for discussing the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- A Seattle defense attorney arrived at Fort Leavenworth on Monday to meet with an Army staff sergeant who is suspected of carrying out a deadly nighttime attack on two Afghan villages....

Five foreign tourists die and one is in hospital after an avalanche hits a group of skiers in northern Norway, police say.

WASHINGTON — Should babies conceived using the frozen sperm of their deceased father get his Social Security survivor benefits?

The Supreme Court grappled with that question Monday in the case of Florida twins whose benefits claim was rejected by the government. Their mother used her husband's frozen sperm to conceive ...

DENVER (AP) -- Peyton Manning is negotiating to join the Denver Broncos, ESPN reported Monday....

A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who was stabbed to death at the Norwich home of former boxing world heavyweight champion Herbie Hide.

SALEM, Mass. (AP) -- A mother accused of slashing her children's throats and setting fire to the family's apartment had removed the unit's inside doorknob, sealed vents, covered sprinklers and disabled the smoke alarm, prosecutors said Monday at the woman's arraignment....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Sixty-four bison from Yellowstone National Park are set to arrive on northeast Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation under a long-stalled initiative to repopulate parts of the West with the iconic animals....

The government's planned changes to the NHS in England have cleared their final reading in the House of Lords.

The ancient Celtic side of Navan Fort outside Armagh is closed in a security alert.

Cuba frees all of the approximately 70 members of the Ladies in White dissident group who were held ahead of a visit by the Pope, dissident sources say.

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Police say two people have been confirmed killed and one person has been dug out alive after an avalanche in northern Norway....

WRAY, Colo. (AP) -- Evacuated residents of the small Colorado town of Eckley and surrounding areas have been allowed to return home after firefighters contained most of a wildfire on the state's northeastern plains that filled the skies with so much smoke that firefighters couldn't see the flames and a highway was closed....

Ministers will are considering a possible U-turn over the decision not to buy the F-35 fighter plane, the BBC understands.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- An American man shot to death in Yemen went there in 2009 to learn Arabic, not to proselytize, and became passionate about teaching business skills to Yemenis as part of a deeper interest in helping people, his parents said Monday....