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A woman who fatally stabbed her husband with a pair of scissors in a row about tidying their house is jailed for his manslaughter.

The death of a 1970s rock star who was crushed when a giant hay bale rolled on to his car was "easily preventable", a court hears.

Jermain Defoe scores a hat-trick as Tottenham secure a win against NK Maribor that ignites their Europa League campaign.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers defends his decision to leave out several senior players after his side lose to Anzhi Makhachkala.

Florida is still counting votes as recriminations fly over the US state's latest polling embarrassment, two days after President Obama won re-election.

A man was renovating his home in Sac City, Iowa, when he came across what appeared to be skeletal remains in his basement. When he called the police, authorities arrived on scene and confirmed his suspicion. “It wa...

Liverpool's hopes of qualifying for the last 32 of the Europa League hang in the balance after defeat by Anzhi Makhachkala.

Two pilots involved in a fatal mid-air crash may not have seen each other because of the sun, an accident report finds.

Hurricane Sandy clean-up operations are hit after a second storm batters the US north eastern coast.

Jared Loughner, the Arizona man who pleaded guilty to the attempted assassination of then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will be sentenced Thursday.

Bill Macumber entered a plea in Maricopa County Superior Court after striking a deal with prosecutors and received a sentence of time served.

ABC News' Jake Tapper on what the president has in store for the next four years.

The Pentagon disclosed today that an unarmed U.S. military Predator surveillance drone was fired at by Iranian military jets last week in international airspace over the waters of the Persian Gulf.

Remember Advent calendars? You know, the calendars used to count down the days remaining until Christmas, which often have chocolate goodies tucked away inside each entry's window. Spirits company Master of Malt is offer...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg orders petrol rationing in New York City as it struggles to recover from Storm Sandy.

Many downtown Manhattanites are temporily without a place to live.

WASHINGTON/YANGON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will visit Myanmar this month and meet both its president and its iconic opposition leader, marking a new milestone in U.S. efforts to promote democratic reforms in th...

Treacherous conditions are preventing the rescue of a British man and a woman stuck aboard a sinking yacht in the South Pacific.

WASHINGTON -- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security should be off the table as congressional leaders attempt to broker a deal to avoid the sequester that kicks in Jan. 1, according to a new survey from Democracy Corps a...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Power outages spiked slightly in Connecticut as a nor'easter hit the state just nine days after Superstorm Sandy raked the Northeast. Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating report...

Priceline.com Inc., the most valuable online-travel agency, has agreed to buy Kayak Software Corp. (KYAK) for $1.8 billion in cash and stock to expand its Web-based travel services. Kayak shareholders will receive $40 a ...

By Douglas M. Main, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer: CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In June, William Fritz and his colleagues developed a model showing how New York's geography would amplify a storm surge in the event of a large...