A British court on Friday gave Foreign Secretary David Miliband a week to justify his decision to suppress secret documents that lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee argue...

Alabama’s largest county offered a plan Friday to restructure its $3.2 billion sewer debt and, at least for now, put off filing the largest bankruptcy in U.S....

Gov. Bob Riley negotiated with creditors Friday over whether Alabama’s largest county should seek a deal on its $3.2 billion sewer debt or file the largest...

A British court says the U.S. has agreed to hand over documents critical to the defense of a Guantanamo Bay detainee _ but only if he goes on trial.

The U.S. dollar was lower against other major currencies in European trading Friday morning. Gold fell.

Authorities in the United Kingdom are investigating potential antitrust violations involving an unnamed Procter & Gamble Co. subsidiary, the consumer products...

An author who fabricated a best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust by living with wolves asked a judge Thursday to affirm a $32.4 million jury award in her...

A crane lowering a heavy length of pipe toppled Thursday morning at a city water pumping station on the Trinity River in Dallas, injuring two city workers.

Three British men questioned about an online threat to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown have been charged with a range of terror offenses, police said Thursday.

Diageo PLC, the world’s largest producer and distributor of alcoholic drinks, said it is pushing ahead with its focus on premium sales as it posted a small rise...

The European Court of Human Rights has cleared the way for the extradition of a British man who allegedly hacked into secret U.S. military computers, his lawyer said...

A crane lowering a heavy length of pipe has toppled at a city water pumping station on the Trinity River in Dallas, injuring two workers.

A crane hoisting a heavy length of pipe has toppled at a Dallas water pumping station on a river.

A British politician says he has won a victory for an endangered icon _ the red telephone booth.

An aristocrat wants to sell a masterpiece of Renaissance painting to British public galleries if they can meet his $92 million asking price.

A British aristocrat wants to sell a masterpiece of Renaissance painting to British public galleries if they can meet his $92 million asking price.

Everything is bigger in Texas, especially the calorie counts at the State Fair, which will offer such delicacies this year as deep-fried s’mores and a fried...

A man accused of involving two teenage boys in self-flagellation as part of a Muslim religious ritual was convicted of child cruelty Wednesday.

The Group of Seven industrialized democracies condemned Russia on Wednesday for its actions in Georgia, underlining the country’s growing estrangement from the...

The U.S. dollar was mixed against other major currencies in European trading Wednesday. Gold was unchanged.