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Many parts of Scotland are on alert for more flooding as weather forecasters warn of further heavy rain falls.

Cumbria faces the aftermath of its latest floods, with hundreds of homes swamped, bridges damaged and roads closed.

Italian police arrest a Pakistani father and son suspected of providing logistical support for last year's Mumbai attacks.

When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.

Test prep companies are catering to a new demographic: 3- and 4-year-olds.

Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits displaced residents in flood-hit Cumbria, as the UK braces itself for more rain.

The new Twilight vampire movie took a record $26.3m (£15.9m) in midnight showings in North American, its studio says.

Follow the action in the SPL as Hearts take on St Johnstone in the lunch-time kick-off, followed by four matches at 1500 GMT.

Liverpool face Man City in an intriguing early kick-off, with Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd among those in action later.

The second conjoined twin separated by doctors in Australia this week wakes from an induced coma.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu activity was declining in all regions of the country.

The deadly gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, trapping scores of workers nearly a third of a mile underground, authorities said.

Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce will miss three matches in order to undergo an operation on a coronary artery.

The successful operation of the Large Hadron Collider marked the resumption of the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment.

Is Oprah's talk show move the end of an era?

Double take? Highlights from Children in Need

A gas blast at a coal mine in China kills 42 people and leaves more than 66 trapped, state media reports.

Bohemian no more, pedicabs in New York must take a ride on the legitimate side beginning this weekend.

Private messages hacked from a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show a climate science conspiracy.

The Malaysian authorities exhume the body of an opposition activist who died in custody, following allegations of foul play.

A murder investigation is under way following the discovery of a man's body at a house in east Belfast.

A variety of economists say that stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would.

The family of a British couple seized by pirates appeals for their release after seeing footage of them with gunmen.

Sri Lanka says thousands of people held in camps since the fight against the Tamil Tigers ended will soon be free to leave.

The annual Children in Need show - which included a dance-off between BBC newsreaders and Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity - raises £20.3m.

Health officials in Cardiff say despite a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu jabs against the illness are still important.

German law enforcement officials arrested 17 on Friday in connection with what was described as the biggest match-fixing scandal yet uncovered in European soccer.

A South Carolina legislative committee will convene to begin preliminary impeachment proceedings against Gov. Mark Sanford, according to the chairman of the state’s House Judiciary Committee.

After spending $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, the U.S. is concerned that Iraqis won’t be able to maintain the facilities once the Americans have left.

What impact does EU Charter have on UK law?

Analysts and executives are wondering if the economic model of broadcast television, which is more heavily reliant on advertising than cable, is irreparably broken.

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...

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.

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...

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.