A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife. He left with a lot of condoms and an energy drink.

A wheelchair getaway at a 7-Eleven has police looking for an unusual robbery suspect. Authorities said Friday that a man in a wheelchair entered a Dallas convenience...

Continental Airlines Inc. said Friday it is charging some coach customers $15 for a first checked bag, matching a similar fee imposed by most other major U.S....

The sound of bagpipes has fallen victim to frosty relations between the West and Russia. British officials have banned three military bands from attending a musical...

Shares at Informa PLC, the London-based publisher of Lloyd’s List maritime newspaper, fell 6 percent on Friday after the company rejected a reduced takeover bid...

It may not be a best-seller, but “Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers” has won a literary accolade: oddest book title of the past 30 years.

FANS of heavy metal music are usually portrayed as long-haired students playing air guitar in their grubby rooms. Classical music lovers, by contrast, are stereotyped...

Lloyd’s of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, signaled its intention to push its business in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America and oil...

LONDON: A British man saw his father on a television show five years after thought he had been cremated, the police said. John Renehan’s father John Delaney went...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republicans at their national convention are attacking him to avoid talking about the sagging economy...

The Hungarian dentist will see you now. In his inflatable office. Getting your jaw X-rayed by a foreign practitioner in a blowup tent may sound like a hard sell to...

Britain’s Information Commissioner ruled Thursday that the government must publish memos and e-mails related to a 2002 intelligence dossier on Iraq’s...

Pop star Cliff Richard has written about his relationship with a former Roman Catholic priest in an autobiography excerpted in a British newspaper on Thursday.

Ice in fuel lines probably caused a British Airways jet to lose power and make a jarring emergency landing in London in January, investigators said Thursday.

Harrry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe confeses he lost his virginity when he reached the age of consent, 16, with a much older girlfriend.

· Change slower than snail’s pace, says commission · Data shows fewer cabinet members, MPs and judges

Toll Brothers says it swung to a loss in its third quarter as its sales fell amid the housing slump. But the home builder says it sees signs that the market is...

A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles’ first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale Thursday, and auctioneers predict bidding could run to...

The Bank of England has kept official interest rates unchanged at 5 percent at its monthly rate-setting meeting despite a looming domestic recession.

Opponents of a Dallas suburb’s latest effort to force out illegal immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop a city ban on apartment and home rentals to...