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The Knicks (3-9) won their second in a row and kept the Nets winless at 0-13.

The Senate voted on Saturday to begin full debate of major health care legislation, propelling the bill over a crucial, preliminary hurdle.

The conservative firebrand Glenn Beck is planning voter registration drives and rallies, but he is cautious about how he might directly support particular candidates.

China says 87 people are now known to have died in a coal mine blast in Heilongjiang province, with 21 still trapped.

The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at the Fort Hood army base earlier this month will not be moved immediately to a military prison for pretrial detention.

The Americans hope the militias will encourage an increasingly demoralized Afghan population to take a stake in the war against the Taliban.

The US Senate narrowly votes to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul the country's healthcare.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron have apologised after claims they used an Armistice Day service as a photo opportunity

Companies that were once content to fight in store aisles and on commercials are choosing a different route — formal grievances challenging their competitors’ claims.

Investment funds are buying mortgages, trimming some of them to the benefit of homeowners, and shifting any risk to the federal government.

The profile that has emerged of David Headley, a U.S. citizen accused of plotting revenge against a Danish newspaper, suggests a man pulled between two cultures.

Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?

Army experts check a car which burst into flames near the Northern Ireland Policing Board building.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who played a role in the founding of the Islamic Republic, has emerged as the spiritual leader of the opposition.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh urges politicians to tackle Scotland's "cheap bevvy" culture with minimum alcohol pricing.

Several Bay Area doctors who recommend medical marijuana for patients say their client base includes teenagers with psychiatric conditions including A.D.H.D.

Konnie Huq joins 'Final Push' against disease in India

Using a ride-on lawnmower might save energy but they land thousands of people in hospital, experts warn.

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has called for a crackdown on government corruption.

Police officers return fire after coming under attack in the village of Garrison, County Fermanagh, close to the Irish border.

Hamas in Gaza says it has reached an agreement with other militant groups to stop firing rockets into Israeli territory.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits displaced residents in flood-hit Cumbria, as falling flood waters reveal the extent of the damage.

People in Cumbria affected by flooding face another 24 hours of uncertainty as rain continues to batter the area.

EastEnder Ricky Groves is voted off Strictly Come Dancing as Jade Johnson quits because of injury.

A European satellite launched to study the Earth's water cycle returns its first data, confirming its novel instrument is working well.

All the action in the Premier League

Manchester United's Darren Fletcher produces a superb strike as he helps his side ease to a win over Everton.

Scotland end a 27-year losing run against Australia as an awesome defensive performance sets up a 9-8 victory at Murrayfield.

Fish reared in water acidified by CO2 may become "fatally attracted" to the smell of their predators, say scientists.

Congo band shines despite disability and poverty

Tough going at the Anglican-Roman Catholic summit

FERRUM, VA. -- Jessica Goode needed to clear her head. It was Tuesday afternoon, her senior project presentation was due by Friday and it wasn't going well. She wanted to be in the one place where she always felt better: the woods.

As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere with intimate medical decisions and threaten the pocketbooks of average...

Even before the shootings at this sprawling military post, Pfc. Nicolas Woodworth was wary of shipping out for Afghanistan in early January. As a combat engineer, he is supposed to serve on a route-clearance team, creeping down Afghan roads at 5 mph looking for bombs.

KIEV, UKRAINE -- One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport to greet a shipment of Tamiflu as if it...

In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources brie...