Breast cancer deaths have fallen in the UK since the 1980s, but mortality rates from the disease continue to be among the highest in Europe, a study shows.
Iraq's top army officer says US pull-out plans are premature, as Washington says troops are on target to end combat operations by the end of the month.
England coach Fabio Capello calls time on David Beckham's international career at the age of 35, saying the team's future lies in the hands of younger players.
Astronauts removed a malfunctioning International Space Station cooling pump in a spacewalk Wednesday after an initial attempt failed Sunday. The astronauts will need to install a new pump next week. Until then, the space station crew must curtail its research work.
As the American economic recovery wavers, evidence is mounting that growth overseas is also slowing and may be unable to sustain the fragile rebound in the United States.
Concern is growing about President Hamid Karzai’s ability to deliver a credible election in September, a crucial sign of security and a legitimate government.
AP - President Barack Obama is satisfied that the United States can safely end its combat role in Iraq at the end of this month and meet the deadline for removing all U.S. troops from the country by the end of 2011, White House officials said Wednesday.
AP - After more than a week of silence, jurors in the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich threw the courtroom into confusion Wednesday when they sent a note to the judge suggesting they may be deadlocked on at least some counts.
AP - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he might have said things differently when he lashed out at liberals he called the "professional left" and suggested some of them should be drug tested.
Rescuers and residents walk on a road covered by rocks and mud near a collapsed building after a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Zhouqu county, in northwest China's Gansu province, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers searched Monday for an estimated 1,300 people left missing after rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China, just one of a series of flood disasters across Asia that have plunged millions into misery.
No one knows yet whether former Sen. Ted Stevens and four others killed in an Alaskan plane crash initially survived but died awaiting rescue, the NTSB says.
A woman sentenced to death told Iranian TV she knew of a plot to kill her husband but thought it was a joke. One of her lawyers said the remarks were coerced.
Two fugitives who were believed to have been heading for the northwestern U.S. or Canada may have been spotted in Arkansas, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
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