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Tens of thousands of South Africans have marched in protest over new tolls on roads in what unions says is "the first warning shot" to government.

The remaining members of the Monkees are unlikely to attend Davy Jones's funeral this week out of respect for his family, his former bandmate Micky Dolenz reveals.

A Chinese official says self-immolations in Tibet will not disrupt regional development, as state media confirms the death of a woman in Gansu province.

You would think Downing Street might be named after a British national hero. But an incident 350 years ago makes Sir George Downing look more like a villain.

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese officials sought Wednesday to discredit Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest China's rule over their region, calling them outcasts, criminals and mentally ill people manipulated by the exiled Dalai Lama....

Researchers say there has been a 10% drop in Scotland's premature birth rate since the country introduced a ban on smoking in public places in 2006.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet....

US scientists report seeing tentative evidence of the Higgs boson, at a mass similar to the hints seen at the Large Hadron Collider.

CUSHING, Okla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama firmly defended his record on oil drilling Thursday, ordering the government to fast-track an Oklahoma pipeline while accusing Congress of playing politics with a larger Canada-to-Gulf Coast project....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is keeping up a schedule of weekly visits to politically important states with a trip Wednesday to North Carolina....

The price of natural gas has collapsed recently, largely due to an enormous increase in American supplies made possible by new discoveries and technologies.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are trying to make the most of a mixed Super Tuesday, each claiming a measure of victory but unable to settle the most tumultuous race for the GOP presidential nomination in decades....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An Internet outlaw's decision to go to work for the FBI poured light on a secretive world where young computer experts caused havoc and where authorities say a Chicago man and others celebrated their successes as they stole hundreds of thousands of dollars with stolen credit card numbers....

Insurance group Admiral announces record annual pre-tax profits of nearly £300m, an increase of 13%, for 2011.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A man arrested after a homemade cannon blasted through his mobile home, killing his girlfriend, "liked to live life on the edge," his brother told a San Diego newspaper....

Mitt Romney doesn't get nervous on primary days.

Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald and Lee Westwood are grouped together for the opening round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship in Miami.

A cull of 200 Canada geese is to go ahead in the Lake District, despite more than 2,500 people signing a petition against the move.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in 10 states weighed in on the GOP presidential nomination race in its busiest day yet. Mitt Romney won six states, Rick Santorum clinched three and Newt Gingrich prevailed in one. And along the way, clues were gleaned from the results about the path ahead. A look at what we learned:...

When they were young, Patricia and Joan Miller sang and danced for Bing Crosby, troops and their friends....