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• World powers coax Iran into saving nuclear talks

  February 27, 2013 8:32 PM

  ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - World powers offered broader concessions than ever to Iran in attempts Wednesday to keep alive diplomatic channels that seek to rein in the Islamic Republic's nuclear program and prevent it from building an atomic weapon. The offer was hailed by Saeed Jalili, Iran's top official at... more »

• Clinton: New round of Iran nuclear talks set for Turkey

  March 31, 2012 10:29 AM

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Iran and six world powers have agreed to meet in Istanbul on April 13 for the latest round of talks about Iran's nuclear program. Clinton made the announcement at a news conference Saturday following a security conference... more »

• UK nuclear submarine grounded in accident

  October 22, 2010 8:10 AM

  LONDON (AP) - Britain's defense ministry says a nuclear-powered submarine has been involved in an accident off the coast of Scotland. Officials confirmed the vessel involved was HMS Astute, one of Britain's fleet of submarines powered by a nuclear reactor. The defense ministry insisted in a statement that... more »

• IVF pioneer wins Nobel Prize for medicine

  October 4, 2010 8:14 AM

  Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for the development of in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples to have children. Edwards and Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988, developed the IVF technique, in which egg cells are fertilized outside... more »

• 12 dead in U.K. shooting rampage

  June 2, 2010 1:59 PM

  British police say a taxi driver went on a shooting rampage across rural northwestern England, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself. It's Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996 and shocked a country where gun ownership is tightly restricted. more »

• Britons win payout over burns from 'toxic sofas'

  April 26, 2010 10:19 AM

  A British court says hundreds of people who received chemical burns from leather sofas will share 20 million pounds ($30 million) in compensation. The customers took legal action after claiming of skin and eyecomplaints or breathing difficulties from the Chinese-made furniture, dubbed "toxic sofas." The problems were blamed on dimethyl... more »

• World's largest marine reserve created

  April 2, 2010 9:18 AM

  Britain on Thursday created the world's largest marine reserve by banning fishing around the U.K.-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean - a cluster of 55 islands across that cover an area larger than California. The move pleased environmentalists but angered exiled Chagos Islanders, who say it creates an obstacle... more »

• U.K. millionaire to move to mud hut

  March 11, 2010 11:46 AM

  A 41-year-old millionaire businessman who nearly died in a car crash eight years ago is leaving behind his exquisite 16th-century farmhouse and lavish lifestyle to move to a mud hut in Uganda and start a children's charity. Jon Pedley plans to sell his telecommunications businesses, a $1.5 million Essex... more »

• "Climategate" scientist admits no global warming since 1995

  February 15, 2010 5:27 PM

  The scientist at the center of "Climategate" affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track' of the information, according to the London Daily Mail . Colleagues believe Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that... more »

• US and Britain close their embassies in Yemen

  January 3, 2010 8:25 AM

  Both the U.S. and Britain have closed their embassies in Yemen, with American officials citing threats by the al-Qaida group linked to the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. In London, Britain's Foreign Office says the embassy in Yemen was closed Sunday for security reasons. She said... more »

• Napolitano says airline security system failed

  December 28, 2009 9:43 AM

  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watch list with a U.S. visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit. A day after saying the system... more »

• New restrictions to add to air-travel headaches

  December 28, 2009 9:23 AM

  New security restrictions swiftly implemented following a botched attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day will make air travel more burdensome and could discourage some business fliers - key customers for the airlines. Passengers will likely face longer lines at checkpoints and less freedom to move around the... more »

• Lochte to miss Duel in the Pool because of surgery

  December 11, 2009 1:49 PM

  Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte has withdrawn from next week's Duel in the Pool in Britain because he's still recovering from knee surgery. USA Swimming, headquartered in Colorado Springs, said Friday that Lochte's spot on the 36-member U.S. team won't be filled. The event features such U.S. Olympians as Michael... more »

• Storm lashes south Britain with strong winds

  November 16, 2009 7:50 AM

  Heavy rain and winds of up to 100 miles an hour are causing flooding, closing roads and disrupting transport across southern Britain. The country's worst storm this year triggered flash floods in coastal regions. Scores of motorists had to be rescued from their cars, and in several areas trees... more »

• U.S. says too many swine flu cases to count

  October 9, 2009 10:21 AM

  U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years. And they did it on purpose. Government doctors stopped counting swine flu cases in July, when they estimated more than 1 million were infected... more »