Salvage experts outlined their plan Friday to raise the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from the sea floor off Italy in one piece and tow it from the disaster site.

She might have gone unnoticed through the many years of triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family. Now the spotlight will be cast, sadly, on Mary Richardson Kennedy.

Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, talking to him on the telephone, heard the teenager saying, "get off, get off" in the moments before his cell phone cut off and he was shot dead, accord ...

Six roasted fetuses covered with gold for black magic rituals were found in a Bangkok hotel room, and the gruesome discovery led to the arrest of a British citizen Friday, Thai police said.

After being photographed without makeup while in Vancouver last month, candid shots of AnnaLynne McCord hit the Web, with with one site noting: "Her facial blemishes were completely visible.& ...

The suspect in the shooting deaths of two motorists in Mississippi will be charged with capital murder Friday, a police spokesman said.

The father of a University of West Georgia graduate student infected with rare "flesh-eating" bacteria has told in heartbreaking detail of the moment when his daughter learned she would lose her h ...

If you've ever wondered how much money charities spend mailing you those glossy brochures and free address labels along with their request for a donation, the answer might surprise you.

He's brash, bold and has the skills to back it up. 19-year-old phenom Bryce Harper is less than a month into his baseball career with the Washington Nationals, and he's already making his presence ...

Maryland's highest court has ruled a lesbian couple married out-of-state can legally file for divorce, even though Maryland's own same-sex marriage law does not take effect until next year.

Coastguard officers recover a man's body from the sea during the search for a missing Dorset fishing vessel.

The Spanish government has announced that the level of bad loans held by the country's banks is at an 18-year high.

Colin McIntyre, founding editor of the BBC's Ceefax service, the world's first teletext service, has died at the age of 85, his family confirms.

German leader Angela Merkel suggests Greece could hold a referendum on the euro alongside national elections next month, Greek officials say.

Captain Andrew Strauss scores his first century in 18 months as England dominate West Indies on the second day of the first Test.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney releases his first TV ad of the general election, outlining a to-do list for his first day in the Oval Office.

Mitt Romney releases his first television advertisment of the general election, suggesting his first acts as president.

The government of Quebec unveils an emergency bill in an effort to quell the most sustained student protests in Canadian history.

In one of the largest and most high-profile share floatations of recent years, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, rang the opening bell of the Nasdaq exchange.

Californians hope of Facebook flotation windfall

Spaniards react to the decision by Moody's to downgrade 16 of theirs banks.

A Russian court jails an employee of a defence plant in the Urals for spying, in a case said to involve submarine-based nuclear missiles.

Modern ruins join Italy's ancient temples

Queen Sofia of Spain has cancelled a visit to the UK to mark Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee because of disputes over Gibraltar.

The opening of Berlin's new airport is put back again, probably until March 2013 and its technical manager is sacked.

Responding to a report in a French daily about threat from Taliban to the Indian mission in Paris, the government on Friday said its embassy there was in touch with relevant French authorities for ...

Facebook shares were up 8% in early afternoon trading on the Nasdaq, after opening 11% higher & then rapidly heading south to touch their IPO price of $38.

Schwarzenegger, who also served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011, has tagged the 6 ft 3 Ghumman as “an amazing talent from India” on Facebook.

Facebook Inc shares fizzled on their first day of trade on the Nasdaq, erasing early gains of as much as 18% to trade close to their initial public offering price.

The world's "most active and persistent" perpetrators of economic espionage, Chinese agencies also represent a "growing" threat to US security, Pentagon said.

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Major-General Robert Mood gives bleak assessment of task his team faces as violations of ceasefire continue.

Report citing autopsy which concluded that a 23-year-old was tortured before drowning, dismissed as "outrageous claim".

Joyce Banda says laws criminalising homosexuality may be scrapped in what is seen as attempt to appease Western donors.

Decks cleared for President Rajapaksa to either commute sentence of, or pardon, Fonseka, in jail since February 2010.

Deputy PM says auditors to assess amount of cash needed by banks to rebuild their balance sheets.

The much-delayed Tom DeLay case is delayed again. The 3rd Court of Appeals cancelled next week’s oral arguments on DeLay’s money-laundering conviction after his lawyer, Brian Wice, asked Justice D ...

Professional and recreational cycling rolls into Georgetown this weekend for the Subaru of Georgetown Grand by Holland Racing, which is the state criterium championship. Races will be held downtow ...

In an opinion issued today, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said his office cannot resolve a dispute between two officials over state funds going toward Formula One races planned near Austin be ...

A third man is now in custody for his role in a Gwinnett County triple homicide that resulted from a drug deal gone bad, police said Friday.

The brother of Rusty Sneiderman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his sister-in-law Friday, alleging that she conspired with her former boss, Hemy Neuman, to kill her husband in front of a Du ...

The 24-year-old woman battling a flesh-eating bacteria learned early Thursday that she faces more amputations.

Atlanta police are investigating an officer-involved shooting Friday on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway.

ATLANTA - A young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria has learned she will lose her hands and remaining foot, and responded by saying "Let's do this." Her father recounted the conversa ...

QANTAS workers have voted to extend their industrial action, warning of possible 24-hour strikes unless the airline negotiates on their demands.

MORE than 100 million shares were traded in the first four minutes of Facebook's debut on the US Nasdaq market.

SOUTH Australian Opposition leader Isobel Redmond has lost her chief of staff, Andrew Coombe, who quit after a falling-out with the Liberal leader.

A LABOUR hire company has been fined after adopting a "no-ticket, no start" policy to keep industrial peace with the Maritime Union of Australia.

CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet has defied analysts' predictions and declared international carbon markets will recover over the next three years.

Flags marking out the areas controlled by different political groups in Karachi should be removed in order to ease long-running political feuds, Pakistan's Interior Minister has suggested.

Archery is such a popular sport in the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province that some Pakistanis are asking for it to be officially recognised.

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh investigate reports that former chief minister Mayawati used public money to import palm trees.

Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach is granted bail after being charged with molesting a woman and assaulting her fiance at a hotel in India's capital.

Hacker group Anonymous has carried out a series of attacks against government and political websites in India.

Sierra Leone's league has resumed, less than a week after suspending operations because of a shortage of funds.

Benin's French coach Manuel Amoros names a 21-man squad for next month's 2014 World Cup qualifier at home to Mali.

Film director Simon Bright discusses his new film about Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's triumphs and failings.

Zambia's sports minister says that funds are finally in place to secure the services of Africa Cup of Nations-winning coach Herve Renard.

Save the Children says serious malnutrition has spread across the African state of Niger, despite giving warnings for months about the situation.

Barn owls used to catch mice and rats in the fields of Jordan and Israel are breeding in specially set-up nesting boxes.

Contradictory opinion polls give few clues on Egypt's election

Google is facing legal action for not labelling the body of water separating Iran and neighbouring Arab Gulf states on its map service.

Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential elections since the uprising will take place on the 23rd and 24th of May. What could be in store for the country?

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A woman blows herself up to protest against the demolition of her house in southern China, killing herself and two other people, state media say.

Most travel agencies in China are suspending tours to the Philippines amid tension over a stand-off in the South China Sea, Chinese state media says.

Morning newspaper round-up: coverage focused on Shanghai as one of the major Chinese bank set up a second headquarters in the city.

Subsidence is affecting a newly built section of China's high-speed railway in Hubei province after an embankment collapsed last week, reports say.

Polling opens for the fifth phase of assembly elections in India's most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

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A Boston high school senior is facing murder charges after police arrested him today in connection with a fatal...

A federal judge today told the lawyer for former Probation Commissioner John J. O'Brien that an attempt to get...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. - Keeping his focus on the economy instead of a negative ad blitz, Mitt Romney slammed a Granite...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Southern California woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the shooting...

The privacy breach that led to about 800,000 Telstra customer records being exposed online late last year was the result of one security slip, according to one of the telco's IT security staff.

Parolee and fitness instructor Matthew James Massey is again free, this time on bail.

Tony Sage's Cape Lambert Resources has gone into a lengthy trading halt today after being hit with a $95m tax bill.

It may only be brief but activists are calling the exchange a ''watershed moment'' in their campaign for same-sex marriage – both allowing people to understand the debate at a personal level and d ...

She's gone from grid girl with a peroxide rinse to the first lady of the Australia sporting world, but who is Kyly Boldy?

New French president pledges to "support Afghanistan in a different way" during Oval Office meeting with Obama

House Speaker joins Rep. Darrell Issa's threat to pressure attorney general over "Gunwalker" scandal

Anti-immigrant, pro-gun Golden Dawn party capitalize on voters' frustration amid euro crisis

Kew Palace offers a look back in time at the lives of the royals. Mark Phillips recently took a look at the palace's recently restored kitchen - that once had a bathtub stuff up the a chimney.

Gallery: Presidential retreat has hosted First Families and visiting dignitaries   G8 is largest world leader gathering at Camp David

The first of two major NATO weekend rallies is under way at Daley Plaza.

Amid all the hoopla of the NATO visit, rumors of President Obama visiting Wrigley Field and Kerry Wood picking this weekend to retire, the City Series finally got to take center stage.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jurors in the trial of former U.S. Senator John Edwards asked on Friday to review more than a dozen prosecution exhibits as they deliberated whether he illeg ...

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The National Lawyers Guild says police wrongly arrested a group of protesters, alleging they were making Molotov cocktails. Lawyers say the protesters only had beer brewing equipment.

Sherrie Chafin-Eucker was sentenced today to 13 years in prison, one week after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the July 17 killing of Reeb, 50. The 48-year-old admitted that she sh ...

Mumbah, the patriarch gorilla and foster-father in the surrogacy program for baby gorillas at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, died this morning at age 47.

Instructors from Fairfield Medical Center coached all the students at Fairfield County schools to interlace their fingers and press down, again and again and again, on the chest of a mannequin in ...

"Dispatch" Blue Jackets beat writer Aaron Portzline answered readers' questions during an hourlong chat today. Here's the transcript.

A sex offender who spent seven years in prison for attacking a boy inside a Pickerington restaurant was arrested this morning on a charge that he solicited children to pose nude for pictures, U.S. ...