A divided Kansas City School Board voted Wednesday to close almost half of the city's public ... read on

Parts of Arkansas were under a tornado watch until early Thursday after a series of powerful ... read on

A background check conducted in 2009 on an Ohio State University employee suspected of opening fire ... read on

When in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from Toyota, he walked out with something ... read on

Colleen LaRose, the U.S. woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a ... read on

Simmering tension spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the ... read on

As much as 16 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes, ... read on

The Pentagon is training people to hack into its own computer networks.

A Texas man who became enraged when a flight attendant refused to serve him alcohol and spent part ... read on

Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat -- ... read on

US Vice-President Joe Biden says Middle East peace talks must resume, despite a row over Israeli ... read on

Public and transport services grind to a halt in Greece as workers stage a third strike in protest ... read on

Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich ... read on

Ex-Bosnian president Ejup Ganic, who faces war crimes allegations, has been given bail by London's ... read on

Survivors of violence in central Nigeria on Sunday have been telling the BBC what happened. read on

Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera will be sworn in as president, with a major post-earthquake ... read on

Japan opens an airport in Ibaraki offering just one flight a day, sparking criticism over wasteful ... read on

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych secures a coalition in parliament, and one of his loyalists ... read on

Italy signs a deal with Google to put online the contents of its two national libraries, including ... read on

Bank of America has apologised to a woman in Pennsylvania after one of its contractors entered her ... read on

An Israeli supermarket chain uses spoof surveillance footage, parodying that of the alleged ... read on

David Beckham hails Wayne Rooney as one of the world's best players after he fires Man Utd into the ... read on

Lyon draw 1-1 in the Bernebau to earn a 2-1 aggregate win over Real Madrid. read on

Joe Biden is in the region to encourage talks between the Palestinians and Israel. What can be ... read on

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The global airline industry will recover strongly this year, as passenger and freight numbers ... read on

Oil giant BP announces a $7bn (£4.7bn) deal that will allow it to begin exploring for oil off the ... read on

Chinese inflation hit a 16-month high in February, leading to calls for the government to take ... read on

A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional gaming console will begin streaming games ... read on

Mobile technology that could allow prying bosses to monitor every movement of their staff is ... read on

Sony reveals details about its new motion controller the PlayStation Move, as a contender to market ... read on

Lost Boys actor Corey Haim was a "tormented soul", his friend and fellow actor Corey Feldman says. read on

R&B star Taio Cruz sets the record for the biggest jump to the top of US Billboard Hot 100 for an ... read on

The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate ... read on

EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks ... read on

Many lives could be saved if GPs followed guidelines for reducing cholesterol in those at high risk ... read on

An opposition leader criticises a wave of arrests in The Gambia, saying detainees do not know why ... read on

Former rebels in DR Congo, now in the army, are running mafia-style extortion rackets in mines, ... read on

Barack Obama warns that the crisis in quake-hit Haiti is not over, as he meets the country's ... read on

Brazil's President Lula is criticised for comments that appear to compare Cuban dissidents on ... read on

Burma's election laws provoke widespread condemnation, as Aung San Suu Kyi's 1990 poll win is ... read on

Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU ... read on

EU president Herman Van Rompuy says he pities Nigel Farage, the British Eurosceptic MEP who called ... read on

Seven people are remanded in custody for a further 72 hours in the Irish Republic over an alleged ... read on

Hamas release a British journalist, Paul Martin, accused of spying and jailed for a month in the ... read on

Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has died suddenly in Saudi Arabia at the age of ... read on

Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai ... read on

Drug abuse is rife in the Afghan police force with up to 40% of recruits testing positive in some ... read on

Police failures to tackle anti-social behaviour risk public confidence, says the chief inspector of ... read on

Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer are due in court later to face charges in relation to their ... read on

A woman convicted of trying to kill her husband in what she said was an attempted "mercy killing" ... read on

Department store group John Lewis reports a 9.7% rise in annual profits to £306.6m as staff share ... read on

The Foreign Office says a five-year-old boy from Oldham kidnapped in Pakistan has not been released. read on

Gordon Brown labels as "unfair" criticisms over the timing of his weekend visit to British troops ... read on