The government says it wants to "reverse the legacy of Labour's savage cutbacks' to services, as many councils continue to deal with a backlog of rubbish.
At his upcoming State of the Union, will President Obama continue to endorse the Big Lie that the Republicans have been telling, or unveil a Big Truth?
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - A high-ranking Navy officer who produced and showed raunchy videos to the crew of an aircraft carrier three or four years ago is expected to be relieved of his command of the ship, defense officials said Tuesday.
AP - Ending a two-week vacation, President Barack Obama is appealing to newly-empowered Republicans to resist jockeying for the White House in 2012 and work with him to get the economy growing and the jobless back to work.
AP - General Motors says sales of cars and trucks in the U.S. rose 6.3 percent last year as a strong line-up of new models helped the company make a comeback from its 2009 bankruptcy.
Filipino councilman Reynaldo Dagsa took a picture of his family just as he was shot dead. Captured in the photograph is the gunman aiming a pistol at him.
The Navy is expected to relieve the captain of the USS Enterprise of his post because of profane videos shown when he was second in command, an official says.
A suspect in the shooting of a woman in the heart of Hollywood's tourist district surrendered to police after a brief standoff, Los Angeles police told CNN.
The thousands of birds that fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve in Arkansas likely died from massive trauma, according to a preliminary report released Monday.
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