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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Swiss couple held captive for nearly a year by the Taliban in Pakistan turned up at an army post close to the Afghan border on Thursday, claiming to have escaped from their captors, the Pakistani army said. They were swiftly flown to safety by the military....

In Syria, a rescue operation to retrieve the corpses of a massacred family turns up a child who survived. Arwa Damon reports.

If President Obama's campaign seizes on Mitt Romney's weakness in the South and makes a serious pitch there, it could be a game-changer: It would put Republicans on the defensive in states that they thought were in the bag.

After Rick Santorum wins the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Newt Gingrich faces new calls for him to quit.

CHICAGO (AP) -- They have a reputation for being environmentally minded do-gooders. But an academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today's young Americans are less interested in the environment and in conserving resources - and often less civic-minded overall - than their elders were when they were young....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They have a reputation for being environmentally minded do-gooders. But an academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today's young Americans are less interested in the environment and in conserving resources - and often less civic-minded overall - than their elders were when they were young....

Campaigners in Tanzania criticise some schools in a region north-west of Dar es Salaam for making HIV-positive pupils wear a red ribbon on their uniforms.

Many of us have imagined writing a letter of resignation that shakes our bosses to the core, but few have actually done it

Fit-again Saracens winger David Strettle replaces Charlie Sharples in England's team to face Ireland.

Are the glory days for Tesco over?

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Bomb attacks in Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia rose in 2011 as al-Qaida-affiliated terror groups used more sophisticated devices to kill more people with each explosion, the Pentagon's anti-IED unit said....

Yoda, a dog which shot to fame after being crowned the world's ugliest in a competition in California, has died, her owner has announced.

MPs call on the government to ban the sale of Nazi memorabilia after items belonging to Holocaust victims were sold at a public auction.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ten years after 9/11, the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims has exposed a bitter divide between New Yorkers and their neighbors across the Hudson River, with city leaders defending the police force and out-of-town politicians angry to learn of New York detectives working their turf....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven't budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A coordinated attack by Democrats on Mitt Romney's plan to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood to help balance the federal budget is part of a larger campaign to ensure that Romney and other Republicans lose credibility with female voters....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A coordinated attack by Democrats on Mitt Romney's plan to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood to help balance the federal budget is part of a larger campaign to ensure that Romney and other Republicans lose credibility with female voters....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A coordinated attack by Democrats on Mitt Romney's plan to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood to help balance the federal budget is part of a larger campaign to ensure that Romney and other Republicans lose credibility with female voters....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A coordinated attack by Democrats on Mitt Romney's plan to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood to help balance the federal budget is part of a larger campaign to ensure that Romney and other Republicans lose credibility with female voters....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A coordinated attack by Democrats on Mitt Romney's plan to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood to help balance the federal budget is part of a larger campaign to ensure that Romney and other Republicans lose credibility with female voters....