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MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels....

Health services in the community are reaching breaking point in the UK, the Royal College of Nursing is claiming.

The Scottish government has confirmed that it wants to set a minimum price for alcohol of 50p per unit.

BOSTON — Seeing his injured Boston University classmates lying in a New Zealand roadway after their minivan rolled over, Evan White said he felt helpless.

"Our first impulse was to do whatever we could, but everyone had a sense of helplessness," Mr. White, a junior riding in one of three ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos says that Greece is going to new elections after talks produced no deal....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Talks to form a governing coalition in crisis-struck Greece are planned Monday but the chances of success have been diminished after one leftist party pulled out of the talks, leading the country one step closer to new elections - and bringing its continued membership in the euro into serious doubt....

Fighting between the national army and rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is threatening mountain gorillas, a critically endangered species, the Virunga National Park said Sunday.

A senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army has urged fellow rebel fighters to give themselves up and end the war in Uganda after his capture on Saturday.

A Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift in the Pacific and watched two companions die sues the owners of a cruise ship that sailed past.

Up to 525,000 Scouts across the UK are set to take part in their first week of community volunteering since "bob-a-job" week ended 20 years ago.

Are you more musical than you realise?

Singer Ren Harvieu set for the big time a year after freak accident

Chinese President Hu Jintao meets the leaders of South Korea and Japan, as the three countries agree to begin negotiations on a free-trade pact.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond tells MPs that the Ministry of Defence has balanced its budget for the first time in about a decade.

BOSTON (AP) -- Seeing his injured Boston University classmates lying in a New Zealand roadway after their minivan rolled over, Evan White said he felt helpless....

In the wake of a New York court ruling that says it's not illegal to "merely" view online child pornography, child advocates are urging Internet-savvy federal prosecutors to take over these kinds of cases as two state lawmakers rush to fix the law.

It is "a singular outrage that the ...

The far-left Syriza party will not attend a final round of coalition talks, reports say, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more political turmoil.

More than £60,000 has been spent draining and repairing police vehicles in Scotland in the past five years after the wrong type of fuel was put in them.

BERLIN (AP) -- Voters in Germany's most populous state inflicted an embarrassingly heavy defeat on Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Sunday and strengthened a regional government that the German leader's party had portrayed as irresponsibly spendthrift....

BERLIN (AP) -- Voters in Germany's most populous state inflicted an embarrassingly heavy defeat on Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Sunday and strengthened a regional government that the German leader's party had portrayed as irresponsibly spendthrift....