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BBC News Online search giant Google has launched a new social networking website in its latest attempt to take on Facebook, which now claims more than 500m users. Google+ allows individuals to share photos, messages and comments but also integrates the company's maps and images into the...

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BBC News A New Mexico wildfire has breached the boundary of Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the top nuclear weapons research facilities in the US. On Monday, officials said that they had detected "no off-site releases of contamination" and said the facilities face "no immediate...

Enough of Mr Obama ... here's some news to make you smile (or gasp) :D A Tennessee man's body is being exhumed to remove dentures that belong to another man after a mix-up at a Chattanooga hospital. Court records obtained by the newspaper showed Manis died on June 12. The dentures...

Discovery News This may sound like late notice, but astronomers have just spotted a rather chunky asteroid heading our way, set to narrowly miss us on Monday. In fact, it will be such a narrow miss that astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere should be able to spot the flyby with fairly...

BBC News The US House has refused to give President Barack Obama authority to continue US participation in the Nato-led operation in Libya, but rejected a bid to cut off money for the conflict. The US role in the Nato mission has drawn criticism from many in Congress in recent weeks...

BBC News Peter Falk, the American actor most famous for his role as TV's scruffy detective, Columbo, has died at the age of 83. The actor died peacefully at home in Beverly Hills on Thursday night, his family said in a statement. He had been suffering from dementia for a number of...

BBC News Mexico's government has condemned the fatal shooting of a Mexican man who was allegedly throwing stones at US agents across the Tijuana-San Diego fence. The Mexican foreign ministry said the use of firearms to repel stone-throwing was "disproportionate". San Diego police said...

US warns Syria over troop movement at Turkey border BBC News The US has expressed concern over reports that Syria is moving troops near the border with Turkey, and warned of a possible escalation of conflict. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the reported Syrian troops movements...

BBC News The United States has tabled a draft resolution at the UN calling for more than 4,000 peacekeepers to be sent to the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei. The region lies on the border between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan and is claimed by both sides. It has been the...

BBC News Elected representatives in California have been told their wages and expenses have been stopped and they will not be paid until the state budget balances. State Controller John Chiang took the step after determining that the budget approved last week was not balanced. It is...

Discovery News The oldest evidence of a complaint about a ref’s blown call lies written on stone, according to a close examination of an 1,800-year-old epitaph. Belonging to a gladiator named Diodorus, the tombstone shows a combatant standing victoriously over his defeated opponent, who...

BBC News An Obama impersonator was shown off the stage at a Republican gathering after making jokes about the party's White House contenders and the real president's mixed-race heritage. Reggie Brown mocked the Mormon faith of Republican hopeful Mitt Romney. He also said President...

BBC News US Senator John McCain has blamed illegal immigrants for starting some of the huge wildfires that have devastated the state of Arizona in recent weeks. Arizona's Republican senator said migrants "set fires because they wanted to signal others... to keep warm" and also to distract...

BBC News A Wild West show in the US state of South Dakota became a little too realistic when three tourists were injured in a mock shootout. Lt Marty Graves, of Pennington County Sheriff's Office, said it did not appear that the shootings on Friday evening in Hill City were intentional...

BBC News Barack Obama overruled the advice of administration lawyers in deciding the US could continue participating in the Libya conflict without congressional approval, The New York Times reports. The White House insists the president did not need congressional approval to authorise US...

BBC News The US is engaged in talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said, in the first high-level confirmation of US involvement. Mr Karzai said that "foreign military and especially the US itself" were involved in peace talks with the group. Earlier this month, US...

BBC News Footage of an orangutan apparently trying to revive a poorly coot chick has emerged online two years after the video was recorded. Leo Oosterweghel, director of Dublin Zoo, said it showed the animals had a gentle side to their nature BBC News - Orangutan rescues coot chick from...

BBC News Astronomers have spied a star's swan song as it is shredded by a black hole. Researchers suspect that the star wandered too close to the black hole and got sucked in by the huge gravitational forces. The star's final moments sent a flash of radiation hurtling towards Earth...

BBC News A US Congressional report suggests more than 70% of firearms recovered from Mexican crime scenes in 2009 and 2010 came from the US. The report indicates Mexican drug cartels are arming themselves with US military-style weapons. The senators who compiled the report urge a...