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BBC News Bids on eBay for Princess Beatrice's unusual royal wedding hat have surpassed £18,000 ($29,500). The dramatic creation by Philip Treacy has been likened to a Turkey Twizzler, a toilet seat and a pretzel. Worn to the wedding of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge last...

AP WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a Kentucky man who was arrested after police burst into his apartment without a search warrant because they smelled marijuana and feared he was trying to get rid of incriminating evidence. Voting 8-1, the justices reversed a...

BBC News The world's oldest panda, Ming Ming, has died in China aged 34, reports say. Ming Ming died last week at the Xiangjiang Wild Animal World in Guangdong Province, Chinese daily The Global Times reported. The female panda had lived at Xiangjiang since 1998, but had also travelled...

BBC News Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, one of the most loved cars in the world, is going up for auction in Los Angeles. The star of the 1968 family movie was shipped to California from England to go under the hammer on Sunday. The unique vehicle, which is still in working order, is expected...

BBC News The US will seek to expand domestic oil production in an attempt to reduce dependence on imported oil and bring down fuel prices, President Obama says. New leases for exploration will be granted in non-protected areas of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico. In his weekly address...

Reuters BOSTON — A charismatic communicator with an actor's good looks, a glowing resume and socially conservative politics, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney could be a dream candidate for Republicans in the 2008 White House race. But is America ready to elect a Mormon president...

Saw this on the news this afternoon ..... An "aspiring Beauty Pageant Queen" 8 year old Britney Campbell is being given Botox injections by her mother. Apparently Britney saw her mother having Botox injections and told her mother she wanted them too - her mother agreed and gives her up to...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In...

BBC News Microsoft has confirmed that it has agreed to buy internet phone service Skype. The deal will see Microsoft pay $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype, making it Microsoft's largest acquisition. Luxembourg-based Skype has 663 million global users. In August last year it announced plans for...

BBC News US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has called on China to rely more on its own spending and less on exports. "The challenge is to lay the foundation for a new growth model, driven more by domestic demand," he advised his Chinese counterparts. His comments came at the start of a...

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Passengers and crew on board a Chicago-bound flight on Sunday had to subdue a man who tried to open an emergency exit door mid-air, forcing the plane to make an unscheduled landing in St. Louis, authorities said. No injuries were reported, and the unidentified 43-year-old...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A photo of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's birth certificate was published by a newspaper on Saturday even though there is no doubt the Indian American Republican was born in the United States. Jindal, who is not running for president in 2012 but is mentioned as a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A tour bus driver who struck a pedestrian on a midtown Manhattan street was charged on Sunday with drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter, police said. Steve Drappel, 57, of West Palm Beach, Florida, hit the pedestrian as he turned a corner near Times Square shortly...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – For the first time in nearly 140 years, the Indian tribes of northeastern Montana are preparing for the return of wild buffalo that are descended from herds that once thundered across the vast American West. The Sioux and Assiniboine tribes of the Fort Peck Indian...

BBC News A house in the Chicago suburbs, made famous in the hit 1990 movie Home Alone, has gone on sale for $2.4m (£1.47m) in the US. The four bedroom Georgian home provided the setting where eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, played by Macauley Culkin, outwitted a pair of bungling...

BBC News A new protest movement sparked by a policeman's ill-judged advice to women students to "avoid dressing like sluts" has taken root in the US and Canada. Thousands of people - some dressed in jeans, others more provocatively - are taking part in marches, or "SlutWalks". The aim...

AP COLUMBIA, S.C. – It's been a busy first week back in the United States for Republican Jon Huntsman. President Barack Obama's former ambassador to China no sooner stepped off the plane from Beijing than he was meeting with advisers in Washington, courting donors in New York and wooing...

BBC News Seve Ballesteros, one of golf's most gifted and charismatic players, has died after a long battle with cancer. The 54-year-old passed away surrounded by his family at his home in Pedrena, northern Spain, in the early hours of Saturday morning. Ballesteros was diagnosed with a...

BBC News Seve Ballesteros's condition is worsening, according to the family of the Spanish golf legend. Ballesteros, 54, has had health problems since being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2008 after losing consciousness at Madrid Airport. He had four operations to remove the tumour...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas on Tuesday carried out its first execution using a sedative often used to euthanize animals. Cary Kerr, 46, was put to death by lethal injection for the 2001 sexual assault and strangling of Pamela Horton. The new drug, pentobarbital, replaced sodium...