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The use of a photograph of Madeleine McCann to advertise holidays on an independent website is described as "vile" by the travel firm.

BEIJING (AP) -- Suddenly the guard posts came down and the hired toughs who manned them melted away, restoring an air of freedom this week to a village that authorities turned into a prison to keep blind activist Chen Guangcheng under house arrest for nearly two years....

BEIJING (AP) -- A Shanghai lawyer said Wednesday he is trying to visit the jailed nephew of activist Chen Guangcheng, who sparked a diplomatic crisis last month when he fled into the U.S. Embassy in Beijing....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane....

Defendant was stopped based on a search warrant for the apartment of another. In the search, officers found no drugs, but they found keys. It turned out that a key fit the apartment door. At the time of the search of his person, the officers did not have probable cause to detain him because there was no known connection to the keys and the apartment. Defendant was taken from the place of his seizure to the apartment. People v. Hill, 2012 Ill. App. LEXIS 332, 2012 IL App (1st) 102028 (May 4, 2012):

[**P22] We note that the finding of probable cause to support the search warrant does not permit us to assume that there was probable cause or reasonable suspicion to justify the continued detention and transportation of defendant. These are related, but different, inquiries, and "[e]ach requires a showing of probabilities as to somewhat different facts and circumstances." 2 Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure § 3.1(b), at 8-9 (4th ed. 2004). "In the case of arrest, the conclusion concerns the guilt of the arrestee, whereas in the case of search warrants, the conclusions go to the connection of the items sought with crime and to their present location." Id. at 10. The same holds true for the State's Terry argument: the search warrant does not, by its mere existence, give rise to reasonable suspicion that justifies the continued detention and transportation of defendant. While this information supporting the search warrant is now part of the record, the State has never argued—in the motion to supplement the record, in its brief, or at oral argument—that the specific facts in the complaint for the search warrant support an independent finding of probable cause or reasonable suspicion that would justify the seizure. Instead, the State simply argues that because police had a reason to believe there were drugs in the Flournoy apartment (i.e., they had probable cause for the search warrant), they also had probable cause, or at least reasonable suspicion, that allowed for defendant's continued detention and transportation. Where the search of defendant revealed no narcotics and police had not yet found any narcotics or contraband at the apartment, the mere expectation that police would find drugs in the apartment, without more, cannot justify defendant's continued detention and transportation to the apartment.

The highest-generating onshore wind farm in England and Wales is given the go-ahead for development in south Wales.

Chinese authorities announce that artist Ai Weiwei will be allowed to challenge a huge fine for alleged tax evasion.

A paralysed woman completes the London Marathon in a "bionic" suit - 16 days after starting the race.

Experts in the United States have been analysing a sophisticated new al-Qaeda bomb to see if it could have slipped past airport security.

LZ Granderson says the blame for the mixed signals on gay marriage policy rests with the president, not with Joe Biden

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says foiled terror plot shows a 'new level of sophistication' in Al Qaeda terror plans.

A mother who subjected her two youngest children to five years of cruelty, including forcing them into unpaid work and locking them in freezing bedrooms, is jailed.

Kent H. Hughes says that traders will benefit from a period of volatility while long-term investors will do fine

Douglass Cassel: Why not try them before the same civilian courts that try homegrown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh?

The latest foiled bomb plot targeting an airliner is an indication that, while the device did not ultimately pose a threat, terrorists remain determined, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said Tuesday.

After cabinet members express support for same- sex marriage, the White House looks to clarify the president's position.

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The fight over a potential doubling of student loan interest rates this summer hits the Senate floor Tuesday with Republicans promising to block a White House-backed plan unless Democrats allow a vote on a GOP alternative.

GENEVA (AP) -- Fighting in parts of Syria has morphed into local guerrilla wars, the Red Cross said Tuesday, where the number of prisoners remains unknown and 1.5 million people need help getting food, water, shelter, power and sanitation....

The political leadership of local government in Wales takes shape after big gains for Labour in the council elections.