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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years....

Stalking is to be made a specific criminal offence, Prime Minister David Cameron announces.

A man pleads guilty to breaking into a teenage girl's home and locking her to a fake "collar bomb" in Sydney, Australia, last year.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- In a rare public criticism of the New York Police Department, the top FBI official in New Jersey said Wednesday that the department's surveillance of Muslims in the state has hindered investigations and created "additional risks" in counterterrorism....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- In a rare public criticism of the New York Police Department, the top FBI official in New Jersey said Wednesday that the department's surveillance of Muslims in the state has hindered investigations and created "additional risks" in counterterrorism....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy, a suspected gunman and a bystander were wounded Wednesday afternoon during an exchange of gunfire outside a Tulsa courthouse, sending people scattering from a crowded plaza as an employee at a nearby library used his camera to chronicle the events....

Ministers should draw up security plans to deal with a break-up of the eurozone "as a matter of urgency", a committee of MPs and peers warns.

Amanda Clayton hit it big playing the Michigan Lottery. Like many winners, she used her $1 million prize to buy a new house.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A recent Supreme Court ruling is forcing the FBI to deactivate its GPS tracking devices in some investigations, agency director Robert Mueller said Wednesday....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory under a bill signed into law Wednesday by the state's Republican governor, who had faced a national uproar when earlier versions of the measure had sought to make the exams medically invasive....

Judy Helms considers herself a South Carolinian. For years, the state of South Carolina agreed. But a new survey of the North Carolina-South Carolina border, taking advantage of the latest mapping technology, may soon turn Ms. Helms into a Tarheel.

"I felt like I was stepped on," she said, recalling ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is the 2012 election shaping up to be all about women?...

The Vatican has taken the unusual step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a rare case of Rome reversing a U.S. bishop on the shutdown of churches, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday.

The office known as the Congregation for the Clergy ruled ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's nuclear chief signaled Tehran's envoys may bring a compromise offer to the talks this week with world powers: Promising to eventually stop producing its most highly enriched uranium, while not totally abandoning its ability to make nuclear fuel....

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) -- Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favorite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below....

SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian investment banker pleaded guilty Thursday to chaining a fake bomb to a young woman's neck in a bizarre extortion attempt last year....

BOSTON — Scientists are reporting what could be very bad news for efforts to customize cancer treatment based on each person's genes.

They have discovered big differences from place to place in the same tumor as to which genes are active or mutated. They also found differences in the ...

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Since the iPad first appeared in 2010, video gaming has been one of the key features Apple has touted for the device, alongside video viewing, electronic reading and Web browsing.

Arsenal agree a deal to sign Germany international striker Lukas Podolski from Cologne this summer, BBC Sport understands.