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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....

Members of a Scottish teaching union are to begin industrial action over changes to their pensions.

Is aeroplane web-surfing about to take off?

It's been a month since the "cease-fire" was due to come into effect in Syria as the first step in a U.N.-backed peace plan. So where does the conflict stand now?

Blackadder star Tony Robinson coaches Chiltern Railways staff to deliver new "comedy" announcements.

ATLANTA — Emory University in Atlanta has become the latest college to bring dogs on campus during exams to help stressed-out students.

Schools are placing pups in counseling centers for students to visit regularly or allowing faculty and staff to bring their pets to campus to play with students.

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Key UN climate talks open in Germany, with Europe struggling to maintain its position as a global leader.

A man is charged with the attempted murder of a woman and her 19-month-old child after an incident in Eastleigh.

The beauty of the Argentinian accordion

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Ron Luce didn't recognize the voice of the woman who phoned Friday to say his daughter Hannah was with her, and was fine....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Ron Luce didn't recognize the voice of the woman who phoned Friday to say his daughter Hannah was with her, and was fine....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Ron Luce didn't recognize the voice of the woman who phoned Friday to say his daughter Hannah was with her, and was fine....

How the West won the battle of the songfests

The campaign site Change.org is localising its service to help publicise UK-based campaigns.

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....

BUFFALO, Texas — The dark suit and tie Joe Gutheinz wore set him apart from other customers inside a Texas eatery where the usual attire is jeans and cowboy hats.

An appetite for down-home cooking wasn't what brought the former NASA investigator to the Pitt Grill recently. He was on ...

NEW YORK — For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University.

A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with ...

New York police on Sunday touted the impact of its controversial "stop, question and frisk" policy, claiming it has contributed to a spike in the number of firearms confiscated and coincided with what could be a historically low murder rate.

J.P. Morgan's failed trades may well have passed the Volcker rule.

Soaking the rich isn't working on the left coast.