Ex-children's services director Sharon Shoesmith is "thrilled" to have won an appeal against a ruling that her sacking after Baby Peter's death was lawful.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is placed under investigation by the organisation's ethics committee over accusations he failed to report the payment of alleged bribes.
Single-payer health care bill – the nation's first – is signed into law. But Vermont's governor says single-payer health care faces 'a few challenges' before it becomes reality.
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 - Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic says he's innocent of war crimes charges that include orchestrating some of the worst atrocities of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the suspect's son said Friday after visiting the former fugitive in jail.
AP - Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists.
AP - Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago.
A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a raid near Tucson, Arizona, never fired on the SWAT team, a report by the Pima County Sheriff's Department shows.
Officials will try again Friday to conduct a deportation hearing for Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic who was in a jail near Belgrade facing charges that he presided over Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
Severe weather that pummeled large sections of the central United States this week largely spared the eastern third of the country even as the U.S. heartland counted the devastating toll to its communities.
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