The British military acknowledged Friday that one of its planes carrying more than 60 people in Iraq was damaged by insurgent fire _ more than a year after it said...

Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London.

Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that...

British Airways said Friday it will pay a dividend for the first time in seven years after reporting its full-year profits more than doubled.

Several workers were injured and others needed help getting out of the rubble when a roof collapsed Thursday at a clothes hanger factory, company officials said.

Several workers were injured and others were trapped when a roof collapsed Thursday at a clothes hanger factory, fire and police officials said.

Two photo agencies have agreed to pay $113,000 to Hugh Grant, his ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the...

The movie rental chain Blockbuster says it swung to a first-quarter profit on lower expenses and improved results from its subscription service and domestic sales...

BT Group PLC, Britain’s biggest telecommunications company, reported a 6.2 percent decline Thursday in its fourth quarter profit, as costs rose and it lost some...

Barclays PLC reported a $1.94 billion write-down in the first quarter Thursday, but bucked a trend in the banking sector and did not announce a capital increase to...

Gordon Brown today insisted that he was the right person to lead Britain through difficult economic times. Responding to a warning from the governor of the Bank of...

An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

There was the man on a fishing trip who was shown around a flying saucer by aliens in green overalls; another who befriended an extraterrestrial called Algar and wanted...

The anti-impotence drug Viagra may help save people with muscular dystrophy from an early death, a study suggests.

The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said she and her husband watched in distress as George Bush won the U.S. presidential election in 2000, according...

A key mechanism by which smoking triggers genetic changes that cause lung cancer has been unravelled.

A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin.

The Royal Air Force is using instructions on the many uses of condoms as a tactic to lure young British men to sign up for the RAF Regiment.

Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947. So let’s just move on...

Britain’s Defense Ministry will conduct an inquiry into the death of an Iraqi man who died while in British custody, officials said Wednesday.