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RICHMOND, Va. — More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday.

Almost one in five high school-aged teens smokes, down from earlier decades, but ...

Coal-dependent Poland threatens to veto EU efforts to make CO2 emission cuts more ambitious.

Five US publishers are being threatened with legal action over the way they set prices for electronic books.

It took 11 days and the help of dozens of strangers, but police have located the family of reclusive twin sisters who were found dead in their California home last month....

I don't know if Newt Gingrich should, will or even is thinking about getting out of the presidential race. Ditto for Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. I do know there are practical, political and one very big human reason that candidates stay in races past the time many think they should get out.

Comedian Bill Maher says Rush Limbaugh has apologized, and liberals are looking bad not accepting it.

Rangers are at risk of being unable to complete their remaining fixtures unless a decision is made on who is entitled to £3.6m, a court has heard.

UK interest rates are kept at 0.5% by the Bank of England, marking three years since they were first cut to the record low.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday....

A letter leaked to the press from Vince Cable criticising the government was signed off by the business secretary with a distinctive moniker akin to a smiley face. So how significant is a signature?

NEW YORK (AP) -- Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country, according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counterterrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities....

The lowest-ranked secondary schools in Wales are promised more funding in return for plans to raise standards.

Sales of Top Totty beer "took off" after the ale was banned from the Palace of Westminster following a complaint from a Labour MP, Sir George Young has said.

Scarborough Hospital admits an 'error' led to a patient being set on fire during an operation.

Stephanie Coontz says it's not just things like Limbaugh's insults and election year attacks on women's contraception that show women's gains are slipping

A retired bookmaker who vanished without trace in 2001 was murdered by his wife and daughter who went onto pretend he was alive and claim his pension, the Old Bailey hears.

BEIJING (AP) -- A high-flying Chinese politician dogged by a scandal involving a subordinate possibly seeking U.S. asylum missed an important session of the national legislature Thursday, raising speculation about new setbacks to his political ambitions....

The shadow chancellor tells the BBC Labour would the introduction of a mansion tax in the Budget - if the money raised was used to reverse tax credit cuts.

One of the UK's biggest brokers of loans, Yes Loans, could be put out of business after a regulator finds that it conducted "deceitful" practices.

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