The chancellor says the MoD, not the Treasury, will have to pay the £20bn cost of renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent, putting further pressure on the defence budget.
The 13 charges against Rep. Charles Rangel include allegedly failing to report $600,000 in income and improper fundraising for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service.
Representative Charles B. Rangel will face a public trial before the House ethics committee this fall, a potential embarrassment for Democrats during the election season.
The gulf has been suffering for decades before the rig explosion, with the oil industry, farming and lax oversight contributing to a dead zone in the gulf.
AP - Three U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.
AP - A federal prosecutor said Thursday a former B-2 bomber engineer helped China design a stealth cruise missile to raise money to pay the $15,000-a-month mortgage on the mansion-like home he built on Maui's north shore.
French woman Dominique Cottrez confesses to smothering her eight babies because she didn't want any more children. Her husband never knew she was pregnant.
Qasr Al-Yahud is one of the most popular baptismal sites on the River Jordan. But it has found itself this week at the center of a bitter battle over its cleanliness. Officials closed the site and then cleared it for visitors after conducting water-quality tests.
An Army private suspected of leaking classified material, including videos, has been transferred from Kuwait to a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia.
The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently sealed.
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