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BBC Two US government employees have been shot and wounded in a vehicle south of Mexico City, officials say. Their armoured US embassy four-wheel drive came under fire on a main road near the city of Cuernavaca, police said, quoted by Mexican media. One was said to have been hit in the...

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ABC The private equity firm founded by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made use of arcane techniques in several of its Cayman Islands-based funds to avoid U.S. taxes, according to a trove of Bain Capital's private audit and finance records made public on the website Gawker...

Yahoo News A group of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents filed a lawsuit against their own agency Thursday, arguing that the Obama administration is not letting them fully identify and deport illegal immigrants. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says her department...

BBC Would you break your own toe to win a Paralympic medal? Would you sit on a sharp object or strangulate your testicles? It's cheating, but a scientist who will be monitoring athletes at the Paralympic Games says a third of competitors with spinal injuries may be harming themselves to...

BBC The US middle class is in a "lost decade" as its share of the country's income has been surpassed by affluent earners, a new report says. The Pew Research Center found that 62% of middle class Americans reported they were being forced to reduce spending. And 43% expect their...

An elderly parishioner has stunned Spanish cultural officials with an alarming and unauthorised attempt to restore a prized Jesus Christ fresco. Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elias Garcia Martinez has held pride of place in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza for more than 100 years...

BBC Hundreds of vehicles fitted with kit that lets them "talk" to each other are being tested on the roads of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The technology is designed to alert drivers to potentially dangerous situations in an effort to reduce the number of accidents. The year-long effort is...

GMA Casey Anthony's one-year probation sentence for check fraud ends this week, giving her the freedom to go wherever she pleases. "As of Friday, Aug. 24 at 12 a.m., nobody will be able to tell her where to be," Anthony's attorney Charles Greene told ABCNews.com. "She's complied with...

BBC The death of a US man who allegedly shot himself in a police car after being searched twice and handcuffed was a suicide, according to an autopsy. Three medical examiners signed the state crime laboratory report on the death of Chavis Carter, 21. Police say he concealed a gun and...

US comedian Phyllis Diller, a staple of stand-up and television, has died at the age of 95. Her former manager, Milton Suchin, said Diller died on Monday morning in Los Angeles "peacefully in her sleep with a smile on her face". Diller broke into comedy in the 1950s, after a career as an...

Augusta National Golf Club will have women members for the first time in its 80-year history. The host course of the Masters had been under criticism for many years for not allowing females to join. Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore...

BBC US President Barack Obama has said the use of chemical weapons by Syria would be a "red line" that would change his thinking on intervention in the crisis. He said he had "at this point not ordered military engagement". But he added: "There would be enormous consequences if we...

Whether you agree or disagree with child pageants ... there is a serious point in this argument. Custody at Risk After 'Toddlers & Tiaras' Star Wears Controversial Outfit | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo!

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BBC I think the last line explains why Monday will never get a fair deal :rolleyes: BBC We may say we hate Mondays, but research suggests Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are equally loathed. US investigators who looked at a poll of 340,000 people found moods were no worse on...

Is this guy from the same planet as us !!! BBC A row has erupted in the US after a congressman said women's bodies were naturally able to prevent pregnancy in the case of "legitimate rape". Todd Akin, who is also running as Republican candidate for the Senate, made the comments in a...

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BBC A Norwegian driver who tried to avoid crashing into a moose hit a bear instead, a wildlife official said. The accident took place on Wednesday night on a rural road 225km (140 miles) north of Oslo, in Hedmark county. While the driver escaped uninjured, a search party was tracking...