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The head of the International Monetary Fund has attracted strong criticism over a newspaper interview in which she suggested the Greek people could help themselves by not dodging their taxes.

Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the Leveson Inquiry his friendship with Rupert Murdoch was "a working relationship" until he left office.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho National Guard rescuers plucked a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter from a snow-covered mountain-side Sunday afternoon, more than 15 hours after the trio survived a nighttime plane crash onto a steep, forested slope in a remote part of the state....

The survival chances of meerkats is being threatened by inbreeding, according to a new study.

Gardeners are warned to wash their hands after using compost following a series of Legionella cases in Scotland over the past five years.

Kenyans who survive on what others throw away

An £82m loan scheme for young people wanting to create a business is launched by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Police officers and celebrities in Rio de Janeiro join some 1,500 residents in a race through the streets of a slum once ruled by drug gangs.

Debate pits religious sensitivities against animal welfare campaigners

SAN DIEGO — The pilot and passenger of a banner-towing plane made an emergency landing on San Diego Bay and were plucked out of the water before the aircraft sank, authorities said Saturday.

The pilot of the single-engine Cessna 150 reported engine problems and went in the water south of ...

NEW YORK — For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing-child cases.

Pedro Hernandez, 51, was charged with second-degree ...

GLENWOOD, N.M. — Crews fighting a wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico planned to take advantage of lighter winds Sunday by building protection lines on key flanks of the blaze and preparing to send water-dropping helicopters into the air for the first time in several days.

The ...

Extreme unicyclist Hugo Duguay explains why life on one wheel is better spent jumping down stairs then going around in circles.

Nazi space comedy treads taste fine line

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. can't count on Russia - a major arms supplier to Syria - to force President Bashar Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Barack Obama for embracing a "feckless" foreign policy and punting tough decisions until after the fall election....

Why an Afghan village chief dons men's clothes and a moustache

The departure of coach Josep Guardiola from FC Barcelona could not come at a worst time, as economic unrest increases.

The U.N. Security Council condemned the weekend massacre of more than 100 civilians in Syria, including the stabbing and axing of nearly 50 children, with members casting blame on government forces.

China's most popular Twitter-like service, Weibo, adopts a new contract limiting the types of messages its users can post.

Dominic West and Emily Watson were among the big winners at the TV Bafta Awards, winning for their powerful performances in Fred West drama Appropriate Adult.