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The author of a report on higher education has questioned whether UK universities can remain world leaders without more funding.

GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) -- As a SWAT team closed in, a fugitive accused of killing a Tennessee mother and daughter before disappearing for nearly two weeks with her two other children killed himself Thursday evening, allowing authorities to safely recover the kidnapped girls, police said....

BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities in the hometown of activist Chen Guangcheng have notched up restrictions on members of his extended family while he awaits permission in Beijing to travel abroad under an agreement between China and the U.S....

BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities in the hometown of activist Chen Guangcheng have notched up restrictions on members of his extended family while he awaits permission in Beijing to travel abroad under an agreement between China and the U.S....

Council leaders in England condemn new adoption scorecards being introduced in England in an effort to speed up the adoption process.

The anti-wrinkle drug Botox could soon be offered to patients with chronic migraines by the NHS in England and Wales, according to the medicines watchdog.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling major Hollywood donors that his decision to support same-sex marriage is a logical extension of where he believes America ought to be....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling major Hollywood donors that his decision to support same-sex marriage is a logical extension of where he believes America ought to be....

A report from a committee of MPs says they fear the system for checking on school spending is not robust enough.

North Koreans have more access than before to outside media, especially foreign and South Korean DVDs, says a US study.

NEW YORK (AP) -- At a birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a man beaten to death because of his sexuality said words couldn't express her gratitude. An 82-year-old photographer who chronicled protests in the 1960s called it "a new dawn."...

Can Hilary Mantel live up to Wolf Hall?

106-year-old recalls the 1926 General Strike

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS.

In a series of votes, a Food and Drug Administration ...

Three friends set a world record for completing the longest ever journey by taxi.

A panel of US health experts recommends formal approval of Truvada, a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people.

Artist Anish Kapoor gives a preview of his twisting steel Olympic Orbit tower sculpture, but admits the £15 ticket price is "a hell of a lot of money".

A drug already approved for treatment of AIDS might one day be approved for prevention of the deadly disease in individuals at high risk.

NEW DELHI (AP) -- In fields along a northern Indian highway, mountains of grain have turned black with mildew after getting soaked in the rain....

PHOENIX (AP) -- As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law....