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BAE Systems is to pay at least £29.5m towards educational projects in Tanzania following an agreement with the Serious Fraud Office.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO forces swooped in by helicopter before dawn Saturday to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues who were held by militants for nearly two weeks in a cave in northern Afghanistan....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime."

Amid a growing social media storm over so-called "lean finely textured beef," the U.S. Department of Agriculture was set to announce Thursday that starting in ...

More than 26,000 people download an operating system which members of the Anonymous hacker group claim to have created.

Ethiopian forces launch a military attack on three camps inside its long-time rival Eritrea, Ethiopian officials say.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A Texas mother whose infant son vanished eight years ago will soon be reunited with him, after authorities found the boy living with his former baby sitter and her family in another part of the state....

Lawrence Lessig says the roots of the problems at Goldman Sachs are its publicly traded stock and the weakening of financial regulation

MUMBAI, India (AP) -- A southern Indian state is actively investigating 76 criminal cases - some that had been closed by police - against employees of Indian lenders accused of driving overindebted borrowers to suicide, officials said Thursday....

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The Bradford International Film Festival unveils its film line-up for the 2012 event, which takes place next month.

NEW YORK (AP) — The accused madam of a multimillion-dollar Manhattan brothel could get out of jail if a judge OKs a defense lawyer's plan to put up his own apartment as bail and a house-arrest locale for her.

Anna Gristina was due in court Thursday for a hearing on ...

BERLIN (AP) -- An earless baby bunny that was a rising star on Germany's celebrity animal scene had his 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman....

Officer’s waiting for backup to arrive before doing frisk of occupants of the car was not a separate seizure requiring a new analysis of reasonable suspicion. United States v. Boone, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33914 (W.D. N.C. March 8, 2012).

This started as a motorist assist and ended up as a warning ticket. The whole thing took nine minutes, which was not unreasonably long. As defendant was leaving, the officer asked if he could ask some additional questions, and that led to a valid consent. The granting of the motion to suppress was reversed. People v. Kats, 2012 Ill. App. LEXIS 158, 2012 IL App (3d) 100683 (March 9, 2012).*

“The 911 hang-up call, combined with the lack of answer on the return and Defendant's overtly aggressive and hostile behavior and refusal to answer basic questions, provided a reasonable basis for the officers to conduct a protective sweep of the house to ensure that no one inside was in need of immediate help. While Defendant had a right to respond as he did, this nevertheless did not dispel the officers' concern for the safety of the occupants.” United States v. Obbanya, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33627 (N.D. Cal. March 13, 2012).*

Margaret Thatcher was told a senior police officer blamed "drunken Liverpool fans" for causing the Hillsborough disaster, government documents reveal.

The administrators of Rangers FC launch a legal bid which could allow the club to escape from the £24.4m finance deal with Ticketus.

Sports fans around the world are counting down the days until the world's biggest sporting stars arrive in London for the Olympic Games.

CNN's Jeanne Moos reports President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron go together "like hot dogs and mustard."

Guest host Donny Deutsch explains the presidential candidate with the best hair usually wins the election.

Rick Santorum says he has momentum and doesn't believe he's mathematically out of the race for the GOP nomination.