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Scotland end a 16-match losing run against Australia as an awesome defensive performance sets up victory over the Wallabies at Murrayfield.

Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?

The Americans hope the militias will encourage an increasingly demoralized Afghan population to take a stake in the war against the Taliban.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who played a role in the founding of the Islamic Republic, has emerged as the spiritual leader of the opposition.

Senate Democrats moved to the brink of a crucial preliminary victory on health care legislation as Senator Mary L. Landrieu said she would vote to bring the bill to the floor.

Cumbria faces the aftermath of its latest floods, with hundreds of homes swamped, bridges damaged and roads closed.

The profile that has emerged of David Headley, a U.S. citizen accused of plotting revenge against a Danish newspaper, suggests a man pulled between two cultures.

The US Senate begins a session on healthcare reform, as it prepares to vote on whether to proceed with debate on the bill.

Fish reared in water acidified by CO2 may become "fatally attracted" to the smell of their predators, say scientists.

A senior Sri Lankan official said that all ethnic-minority Tamil detainees would be freed from government camps on Dec. 1.

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single day domestic box office record previously held by “The Dark Knight.”

Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits displaced residents in flood-hit Cumbria, as falling flood waters reveal the extent of the damage.

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The authorities arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of providing logistical support and financing.

Prosecutors asked an Italian court to hand down life sentences to an American student and her former boyfriend for their alleged roles in a fatal stabbing.

Chelsea run riot to rout strugglers Wolves and extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to eight points.

Tough going at the Anglican-Roman Catholic summit

Even popular bills and generally acceptable nominees have had to traverse a procedural thicket.

Gosport Tories' unusual 'political deodorant'

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez defends "Carlos the Jackal" and world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys".

Prosecutors seek a life sentence for the pair accused of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Italy.

Dominic Carter was cleared of a more serious charge of third-degree assault in the incident, the Rockland County district attorney said.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope agree to seek closer relations between Catholics and Anglicans.

Michael Jackson's personal doctor bought anaesthetic Propofol in Las Vegas and had it sent to Los Angeles, court papers show.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak steps into a row with Algeria following violence over World Cup football matches.

Many parts of Scotland are on alert for more flooding as weather forecasters warn of further heavy rain falls.

Sri Lanka says people held in special camps since the end of the conflict with Tamil rebels will be allowed out for short periods.

Do French feel guilty about football win over Irish?

A luxury sports car maker based in Holland says it plans to move its luxury car assembly plant to Coventry.

Italian police arrest a Pakistani father and son suspected of providing logistical support for last year's Mumbai attacks.

NI First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly, but says the DUP will not walk away.

In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources brie...

FERRUM, VA. -- Jessica Goode needed to clear her head. It was Tuesday afternoon, her senior project presentation was due by Friday and it wasn't going well. She wanted to be in the one place where she always felt better: the woods.

As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere with intimate medical decisions and threaten the pocketbooks of average...

KIEV, UKRAINE -- One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu as if it...

Even before the shootings at this sprawling military post, Pfc. Nicolas Woodworth was wary of shipping out for Afghanistan in early January. As a combat engineer, he is supposed to serve on a route-clearance team, creeping down Afghan roads at 5 mph looking for bombs.