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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says its approach toward the Taliban has not changed, rejecting the militant group's statements that it broke off talks with the U.S. because the Americans had failed to follow through on promises and had made new demands....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Iran was largely cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks - part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons....

Iran says it wants more clarity from the IAEA before it allows inspectors into the Parchin military complex south of Tehran, one of Iran's most influential officials said Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. That was Vice President Joe Biden's message for Republican Mitt Romney in a campaign speech Thursday that blended a robust defense of President Barack Obama's foreign policy record with a harsh attack on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's positions....

The polls and the campaign dialogue aren't much help in assessing the Mormon factor in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. The distinct feeling on the ground was that it had an impact.

The Scottish Football Association charges Rangers with five rule breaches and owner Craig Whyte with two.

A health chief says a robust action plan is being implemented to ensure patients are moved quickly through a Belfast hospital's emergency system, after a patient apparently died unnoticed on a trolley in A&E.

President Obama discusses rising energy costs at a community college in Largo, Maryland.

Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday harshly attacked the economic policies of Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, calling them a threat to the American middle class.

Member state delegations to the European Space Agency reiterate their desire to press ahead with missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018.

Pre-race favourite Big Buck's wins the World Hurdle for a record fourth consecutive time at the Cheltenham Festival.

The vast eyes of giant and colossal squid have evolved to give them early warning of sperm whales, their only predator, scientists show.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana Supreme Court delivered a victory to Republicans on Thursday, ruling that Democrats waited too long to challenge the 2010 candidacy of the state's former Republican elections chief and clearing the way for Gov. Mitch Daniels to choose a replacement....

International officials will attempt to gauge humanitarian conditions across Syria this weekend as part of a Syrian-led mission. An activist says the death toll in the conflict is near 10,000.

Network Rail is fined £1m for health and safety breaches over the deaths of two teenage girls at a level crossing in Essex in 2005.

Six Scottish colleges are facing a ban on the recruitment of foreign students after failing tough new immigration rules.

LONDON (AP) -- The beds can handle both the very tall and the very small, the sofas are electric aqua with hot pink cushions and every suite gets a balcony....

Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 when President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority-dominated government launched a crackdown against a predominantly Sunni protest movement that grew into an uprising with an armed resistance. One year later, what is the situation and what may happen next?

Two French soldiers were killed and a third was wounded when a man dressed in black with a motorcycle helmet shot them in the southwestern French city of Montauban, police said Thursday.

Leanne Wood wins a three-cornered contest to be elected the new leader of Plaid Cymru.