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One of the government's commissioners examining whether a British Bill of Rights is needed has told BBC One's Sunday Politics show he is resigning.

How tsunami-hit north-east Japan looks one year on

A plan to move nuclear fuel from Dounreay in Caithness to Sellafield in Cumbria should involve rail transport, a council says.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A Southern California woman says doctors predicted she would give birth to a big baby boy, but nobody was prepared for just how big....

Scotland's health secretary Nicola Sturgeon urges those in the drinks industry opposed to minimum pricing not to hold up the legislation in the courts.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- When the makers of "Top Gun" were filming on board the USS Enterprise, they donated a set of black fuzzy dice to liven up the ship's otherwise drab interior....

Israeli air strikes have pounded Gaza for a second day, as Palestinians unleash a barrage of rockets in retaliation for the killing of a militant leader.

Japan marks the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the north-east coast, leaving about 20,000 dead or missing.

Hundreds of scantily clad and nude cyclists took to the streets of Peru's capital, Lima, to call attention to safety conditions on the city's roads.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Police in Washington state have arrested a 34-year-old man accused of stabbing a judge and shooting a sheriff's deputy in a courthouse struggle, ending a manhunt that spanned two counties....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces used live fire, tear gas and clubs to beat back tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the country Friday in powerful and often jubilant displays of defiance. But a U.N.-brokered truce largely held up without the widespread, bloody offensives that have pushed the nation toward civil war....

Authorities have found the remains of 167 people, believed to be at least 50 years old, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants and killing 15 of them as the deadliest Gaza violence in over a year showed no signs of abating....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Thousands of supporters of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez held demonstrations across the country Saturday to show support for their leader while he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney won nearly all the convention delegates a three-primary sweep, adding to a lead that will be insurmountable without a dramatic shift in the race for the Republican nomination for president....

NYT: Police Officer Guilty of Falsifying Information by Russ Buettner:

A New York City police officer was convicted on Thursday of lying under oath and filing false information to obtain a search warrant, the second conviction in what prosecutors described as a scheme to cover up illegal searches of vehicles.

The officer, Michael Carsey, 31, was acquitted in September of other charges. His prior supervisor, William Eiseman, a former sergeant, pleaded guilty in June to performing illegal searches of cars and an apartment of people he had stopped, and then lying in court about why he had performed the searches.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Rep. Jay Inslee is resigning from Congress to focus full time on running for governor of Washington state this fall....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Rep. Jay Inslee is resigning from Congress to focus full time on running for governor of Washington state this fall....