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BBC Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is seeking political asylum at Ecuador's London embassy, the country's foreign minister has said. "Ecuador is studying and analysing the request," Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters in Quito. On 14 June, Britain's Supreme Court dismissed...

BBC The US Supreme Court has ordered the government to repay Native American tribes the costs of providing public services, in a ruling that could be worth millions of dollars. Under federal laws which allow the tribes to manage their own affairs, the government must reimburse them for...

BBC A US teenager's survival after a spear was shot through his brain is a miracle, doctors say. Yasser Lopez, 16, is recovering after he was accidentally hit with a spear gun by a friend during a Florida fishing trip this month. Medics at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami said the...

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BBC British Columbia's Supreme Court has struck down a portion of Canada's criminal code that bans physician-assisted suicide. Justice Lynn Smith ruled that preventing doctors from helping critically-ill patients to commit suicide was unconstitutional. She suspended her ruling for one...

BBC Illegal immigrants who came to the US as children may be eligible for work permits and will not be deported, the Department of Homeland Security says. Under a new plan, those aged between 16 and 30 who have lived in the US continuously for five years would be eligible for amnesty from...

AP ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cougars are again spreading across the Midwest a century after the generally reclusive predators were hunted to near extinction in much of the region, according to a new study billed as the first rigorous statistical look at the issue. The findings, detailed in The...

Pew Research Center Global approval of President Barack Obama’s policies has declined significantly since he first took office, while overall confidence in him and attitudes toward the U.S. have slipped modestly as a consequence. Europeans and Japanese remain largely confident in Obama...

BBC A 10-year-old girl has had a major blood vessel in her body replaced with one grown with her own stem cells, Swedish doctors report. She had poor blood flow between her intestines and liver. A vein was taken from a dead man, stripped of its own cells and then bathed in stem cells...

BBC French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he will call on the UN Security Council to make mediator Kofi Annan's Syria peace plan mandatory. France would propose that Mr Annan's six-point plan be enforced under the UN's Chapter Seven provision, he said. Mr Fabius said the...

AP Verizon to ditch most phone plans, introduce plans 'shared' among family members, devicesNEW YORK (AP) -- Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest cellphone company, is dropping nearly all of its phone plans in favor of pricing schemes that allow consumers to share data usage among up to...

BBC The US space agency (Nasa) says it has narrowed the expected landing zone for its Mars rover, Curiosity. The 900kg robot is heading for a touchdown on 6 August (GMT) in a near-equatorial depression on the Red Planet known as Gale Crater. Controllers have drawn an ellipse on the...

BBC David Cameron's daughter Nancy left behind at pub David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, left their eight-year-old daughter, Nancy, in a pub after having Sunday lunch, Downing Street has confirmed. She is reported to have spent about 15 minutes at the Plough Inn at Cadsden in...

Loyal dog: Yorkie left at rest stop waits for 2 days KMBC-TV A 9-month-old Yorkie wasn't about to leave a Missouri rest stop without his master. Mistakenly left behind by an Arkansas truck driver, Rambo waited there for two days until his owner was able to track him down. Rambo...

Dave Mosher for National Geographic News Modern life may be going to your head. It's not clear why—medicine? cars? supermarkets?—but the skulls of white Americans, and perhaps of other races and nationalities, have become slightly taller and roomier, according to new forensic research...

BBC With forests and fish stocks declining, water demand rising and lack of action on climate change, humanity's path is anything but sustainable, the UN warns. The Global Environmental Outlook says significant progress is seen on only four out of 90 environmental goals. Meanwhile, a...

BBC Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theatre where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed. The remains of the Curtain Theatre, which opened in 1577, were found behind a pub in Shoreditch, east London, as part of regeneration works. The venue...

BBC Vote due on link between village of Dull and US town of Boring Residents of the Perthshire village of Dull are due to hear this week whether efforts to forge ties with the US town of Boring have been successful. Officials in Oregon are set to vote on whether the two places should...

We have just had a Cadburys caramel ice-cream .... mmmmmm delicious But other half didn't go much on the chocolate :eek: I have tried Hersheys but (& sorry about this) ..... yukky yuk Dove was quite nice Maybe one day over here, Galaxy chocolate will be sold, then you will be in for...