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News International, the media company behind newspapers including the Times and the Sun, changes its name to News UK.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday with the execution of convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy.

Australia has asked the international court of justice to withdraw all permits for future whale hunts from the Japanese fleet Japan is using scientific research as an excuse to conduct commercial whaling in defiance of a...

Messages outside a Pretoria hospital describe many ordinary South Africans' fear that Nelson Mandela may not be with them much longer, writes CNN's Robyn Curnow.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has burned at least 100 tons of illicit drugs as part of its efforts to fight drug smuggling.

Hours after claiming that they successfully passed some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country, Republican lawmakers said a disputed late-night vote on the bill did not follow legislative procedures.

A member of Odin Lloyd's family recalled the slain 27-year-old as someone with a "grin that you couldn't miss" as word spread this afternoon that former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez had been charged in the...

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Victims' statements read out at Old Bailey before sentencing detail damage suffered by girls abused, raped and tortured by gang A girl who gave evidence in the Oxford child sex exploitation trial, in which seven men were...

George Zimmerman's Florida neighbors and the last person apparently to speak with Trayvon Martin before his death are expected to take the stand as the prosecution lays out its version of the deadly encounter on the thir...

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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador's president said Wednesday that media coverage of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is distracting the world from the surveillance programs that Snowden revealed.

FORNEY, Texas (AP) -- Charles Thomas O'Reilly supported capital punishment when he oversaw his first Texas execution. And he still supported it after his 100th.

President Jacob Zuma cancels trip to Mozambique as Nelson Mandela remains critically ill with a lung infection.

BOSTON (AP) -- James "Whitey" Bulger is on trial in a 32-count racketeering indictment accusing him of a long list of crimes, including participating in 19 killings. Here's a look at the case against him, his defense and...

The US Supreme Court has overturned a law which denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages, and cleared the way cleared the way for same-sex marriage to resume in California.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Top lawmakers in Rhode Island have tweaked an $8.2 billion state budget plan to resolve an impasse over pension contributions.

The Blackhawks will parade down Washington Street through downtown Chicago beginning at 10:30 a.m. Friday on their way from their United Center home to Grant Park for the Stanley Cup victory rally.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The officer who led a coup last year that plunged Mali into chaos asked for forgiveness from the Malian people during a ceremony meant to heal the rift between soldiers who supported the putsch and t...

The All England Club says the lawns are "as they should be" on a day when seven players pull out and Roger Federer crashes out.