British bookshops opened their doors early on Thursday and some grown-up Harry Potter fans lined up overnight as J.K. Rowling launched her long-anticipated first book for adults, The Casual Vacancy.

A 15-year-old British schoolgirl who sparked an international search when she went missing along with her math teacher has been found safe and well in France, police said Friay.

The Sussex Police for

Nigerian officials say 908 Muslim women pilgrims travelling to Mecca face deportation from Saudi Arabia for travelling without male relatives.

A National Hajj Commission of Nigeria report submitted

A US Army brigadier general has been charged with forcible sodomy and other offences after being sent home from Afghanistan.

The Fayetteville Observer newspaper reported today that Brig Gen Jeffrey

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has rattled the southern part of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, but there are no immediate reports of damages or injuries.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake wa

City authorities in Zimbabwe's second largest city are appealing to home owners to flush their toilets at a specified time as a way to unblock sewers after days of severe water rationing.

Bulawayo Ci

A Taiwanese company was fined $500 million on Thursday and its former president and executive vice president were each sentenced to three years in prison for their leading roles in a global LCD screen

The US Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to immediately halt the effects of a New York judge's ruling finding an anti-terrorism law unconstitutional for being too broad.

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Two unarmed female police officers were fatally wounded on Tuesday as they attempted to deal with an apparently routine call about a burglary, Greater Manchester Police said.

Chief Constable Peter F

A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed on Saturday at a Los Angeles sheriff's station and afterward decided not to re