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Two soldiers are shot dead and a third is wounded after an attacker on a scooter opens fire near a military base in south-west France.

Web users in some rural parts of the UK are left without a net connection as a community broadband firm shuts down.

A bungled Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens were permeated by the "systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence," in some instances intentionally, that would have independently corroborated his defense and testimony, a court-ordered report said Thursday.

In a blistering 514-page report, Special Counsel Henry F. ...

SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- Relatives of the 28 people killed when a bus from Belgium crashed inside a Swiss tunnel faced a heartbreaking task Thursday: identifying the bodies ahead of their repatriation. Most of the dead were children....

MPs have blocked plans to charge for public tours of the Big Ben clock tower, meaning visits will remain free until at least 2015.

A coroner warns of the dangers of roller blinds after a toddler was strangled by a cord - the third UK child to die in similar circumstances this year.

A pensioner was suffocated by a mobility scooter after it flipped over and landed on him, pinning him against a wall, an inquest hears.

A County Tyrone man is sentenced to seven years in jail, for causing death by dangerous driving in Omagh.

South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin becomes the first woman to win the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, for Please Look After Mom.

The Duchess of Cambridge plays hockey with Team GB players during a tour of the Olympic Park.

Controversy is brewing in Arizona as the state Senate considers a bill that would give all businesses the option to exclude contraceptives from health insurance coverage.

Monty Panesar takes five Sri Lanka Board XI wickets and then hails the experience of spin partner Graeme Swann.

Vice President Joe Biden assumed the role of top campaign surrogate for President Barack Obama, harshly criticizing the economic policies of the GOP candidates.

Readers pictures on the theme of sleep

A large section of the white cliffs of Dover has collapsed into the English Channel between Langdon Cliffs and South Foreland Lighthouse.

Education Secretary Michael Gove sacks the governing body of a school at the centre of a row over attempts to make it an academy.

With the start of the season opener in Australia on Friday, BBC Sport catches up with some of the drivers as they prepare to begin the gruelling 2012 F1 season.

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the Obama administration is poised to deal a major blow to U.S. oil and natural gas, a leading industry group charged Thursday.

Domestic production of both fuels could plummet if proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations, designed to limit emissions from well sites, go into effect ...

LARGO, Md. (AP) -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear....

LARGO, Md. (AP) -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear....