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A 28-year-old British tourist is killed by a man who walked into a Texas bar and fired several times, according to US media reports.

Nato officials investigate whether the deaths of eight Afghans working with US troops was a friendly-fire incident.

A soldier will represent England in the Miss World competition after the previous entry was arrested over an alleged nightclub brawl.

England take on Australia at Twickenham at 1430 GMT before Wales meet the All Blacks in Cardiff at 1715 GMT.

A road in Belfast city centre begins collapsing into what is believed to be a large hole above a storm-water tunnel.

Eight years of war have left people in Afghanistan exhausted, impatient and increasingly unsure that the Taliban can be defeated.

The closeness of his re-election may jeopardize the payouts, some as high as $400,000, that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has routinely given campaign workers.

Two government agencies are facing off over the right to regulate the popular online game World of Warcraft.

President Obama, extending condolences to Fort Hood, Texas, reminded Americans that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims.

There are five Premier League games, a raft of FA Cup first round ties and a full Championship programme on a busy day of football.

UK PM Gordon Brown tells a G20 summit there should be a new social contract with world banks to make them more responsible.

Trains on the East Coast Main Line would no longer go to Glasgow and instead terminate at Edinburgh, under new plans.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti urges Chelsea to shut down Manchester United's midfield in Sunday's Stamford Bridge showdown.

Compost made from the thousands of floral tributes to Sir Bobby Robson goes on sale on North Tyneside.

A murder inquiry is under way after a fatal house fire thought to have been caused by a firework pushed through the door.

A woman and her two-year-old daughter are attacked during an attempted robbery in north-west London, the Metropolitan Police says.

The head of the body drafting new rules for MPs' expenses reportedly says he may not implement all the proposed reforms.

The UK's oldest public museum, the Ashmolean, reopens after a £61m redevelopment.

Police quiz Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas over a crash in Manchester city centre.

It is quickly becoming commonplace for people to spend a few dollars to get ahead in an online game or to give a friend a gift on a social network.

The official jobless rate excludes millions of people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want to be working full time.

Joe Jackson asks for an allowance from the estate of his late son Michael, saying the star supported him before he died.

Survivors of the shooting say that in a few seconds, everything changed.

The ICC's top prosecutor says perpetrators of Kenya's post-poll violence could face trial as early as next July.

Welsh Labour leadership contender Carwyn Jones wants all his party to have a say on an assembly powers referendum.

Officials were not prepared to say whether the attack was the act of a lone and troubled man or connected to terrorist groups, foreign or domestic.

Lebanon's Hezbollah says its opposition alliance has agreed to join a national unity government under PM-designate, Saad Hariri.

President Barack Obama praises the "valour" of those who responded to the deadly attacks at a US army base in Texas.

Hideki Matsui won't be there, but the House vote on health care reform is a World Series of sorts for fans of big-time politics.

The instructions were simple: Talk about your feelings on the morning after learning that an Army major in Texas was believed to have gunned down 13 people and wounded another 38 at Fort Hood.

Investigators on Friday bore down on the possible motives of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood gunman, to determine whether his actions were driven by stress related to his upcoming deployment to Afghanistan or to an Islamist political ideology.

The jump in the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent, reported Friday, suggests that the job market could take longer than expected to recover and deepens the pressure on President Obama to come up with more immediate solutions.

The first frantic 911 calls had come just four minutes earlier. Kimberly Munley, a civilian police officer for the Army, rounded the corner of a squat, one-story building at 1:27 p.m. Thursday and came face to face with Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan.

Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan's anger was building. He felt stuck in the Army, and family members said the military wouldn't let him out. He disagreed with American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, telling colleagues that the war against terror was a war against Muslims and that his religion came first...

Is post-traumatic stress among caregivers a significant problem?

Attention, fellow commuters: Keeping personal hygiene personal could make those subway rides so much more bearable.