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Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating...

Colombia asks Panama to arrest and extradite a man suspected of running a collapsed pyramid finance...

Wall Street plunges more than 5% on Wednesday to its lowest level in over five years on rising...

BNP members say they have received threatening phone calls and e-mails after their details were...

John Sergeant has pulled out of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing because winning would have been "a...

Rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo withdraw from two fronts north of Goma, as...

US politicians are looking for a compromise plan to aid the country's crisis-ridden car industry.

England skipper John Terry heads a late winner to earn Fabio Capello's side a fully-deserved 2-1...

A British charity worker in Albania is jailed for 20 years after being found guilty of sexually...

The company says 250 posts could be lost, bringing the total number of jobs under threat in Wales...

How two criminals fooled the British judicial system

A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in...

Amnesty International urges the Sri Lankan government to allow aid to reach more than 300,000...

Missing youngster Shannon Matthews was given a sedative drug for up to 20 months before she...

Police have recovered a so-called 'coffee jar bomb' following a security alert in west Belfast on...

A Syrian site bombed by Israel last year had features resembling those of a nuclear reactor site, a...

A teenager who died during a canoeing trip did not drown, tests have show, and his death is still...

Two UK hostages on the Saudi Arabian oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates are named, as families...

Actress Winona Ryder is admitted to a west London hospital after being taken ill on a flight to...

A council makes an official complaint about an advert showing Sir Bobby Charlton walking a dog on...

The challenges faced by returning Afghan refugees

Liberata, the company behind severe delays in students' education maintenance allowances, has lost...

Images of artefacts unearthed by metal detectors

The owners of a Saudi oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates are negotiating a possible ransom, the...

A missing cockatiel is found after chirping its name down a phone to its owner.

Women in the sex industry give their view on clampdown

What the figures tell us about the population

Paying for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps or illegally trafficked to the UK is to...

Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security software suite and will...

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England bring in Graeme Swann for Steve Harmison for the third one-day international against India...

Smiles all round as England supporters celebrate in Berlin

An explosion in Bangkok kills at least one anti-government protester and wounds more than 20,...

The International Monetary Fund approves a $2.1bn (£1.4bn) loan for Iceland, after its banking...

Shareholders of the Royal Bank of Scotland will vote later on Thursday on whether to accept a £20bn...

Victims of violent crime are hampered in making compensation claims by excessive red tape, MPs say.

The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the...