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The artwork Orange, red, yellow by Mark Rothko fetches $86.9 million (£53.8m), the highest ever price for a piece of post-war art sold at auction.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign says he's "disappointed" with North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign says he's "disappointed" with North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign says he's "disappointed" with North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Speakers at a panel on Tuesday disagreed over whether a correspondent for The Associated Press who defied military censors by reporting that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally in World War II had acted properly....

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) -- Police at Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport said Tuesday that a domestic dispute was behind an incident in which gun components and ammunition were found hidden inside a child's stuffed animals, including a Mickey Mouse....

Songwriters are being invited to create a "national anthem" for the UK's most popular cheese, Cheddar, in a national competition organised by industry bosses.

Richard Lugar had it all -- a sterling global reputation, bipartisan respect, a fat campaign bank account and 36 years of Senate experience.

Olympic gold medal hopeful Dai Greene is leading a Network Rail campaign aimed at young people who risk their lives by crossing train tracks.

Passage of Amendment 1 largely prevents the state's judiciary from overturning the bill by enshrining its language into the state constitution.

A constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina, even though state law already forbids such unions, appeared headed for passage following a Tuesday referendum.

Two hundred years ago Spencer Perceval was shot. His death ushered in the era of the lone gunman.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The elections that drove Nicolas Sarkozy out of power in France and left Greece scrambling to build a coalition government pose a financial threat to the United States that could undermine President Barack Obama's efforts to cast himself as the agent of a U.S. economic revival....

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says a court in Beijing has accepted a lawsuit his design firm has filed against a tax office for levying a $2.4 million bill on his company....

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The same disdain for alcohol that drove Christian clergymen to establish this Jersey shore town that calls itself America's Greatest Family Resort led voters to overwhelmingly reject a proposal Tuesday that would have let restaurant patrons bring their own wine or beer to enjoy with dinner....

Naomi Grimley has been to meet the Speaker for a tour of his official rooms inside the Palace of Westminster.

The quantity of small plastic fragments floating in the North Pacific Ocean has increased a hundred fold over the past 40 years.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Voters in a dry New Jersey seaside community that calls itself America's Greatest Family Resort have decided to stay that way, rejecting a proposal that would have let restaurant patrons bring their own wine or beer to enjoy with dinner....