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BBC News A book billed as the sequel to JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has been banned from release in the US, according to reports. Swedish author Fredrik Colting reached a settlement with Salinger's estate to end a lengthy copyright dispute over the book, Publishers Weekly said...

BBC News US wholesale prices saw their biggest increase in 11 months in December, led by higher energy and food costs, official figures have shown. The Producer Price Index rose 1.1% in December, compared with November's 0.8% gain. It was the largest increase since January of last year...

BBC News Foreign diplomats have complained to the US government about the decision of several US banks to end services for diplomatic missions. The diplomats of several countries said they were actively searching for new banks but were having little success. Federal officials heard...

BBC News Jan 13 The number of ongoing investigations into Nazi war criminals increased last year, says a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC). From April 2009 to March 2010 there were 852 investigations being conducted worldwide, compared with 706 during the same period in 2008/09...

BBC News Jan 13 A man who broke into Sarah Palin's e-mail has been imprisoned - despite being told he might be spared jail David Kernell, 23, was found guilty last year of illegally accessing Sarah Palin's e-mail during the 2008 presidential campaign. At the time, a judge suggested he...

BBC News Jan 13 Astronomers have revealed the most distant cluster of galaxies ever observed, caught at a never-before-seen stage of development. Cosmos-Aztec3 has been described as a "metropolis in the making", because such clusters are believed to grow like cities, absorbing outlying...

Guardian Jan 12 CAMBRIA, Calif. (AP) — Three zebras that escaped from the Hearst Ranch in California were shot to death by neighboring ranchers who claim the exotic animals were threatening their horses and cattle. The animals are descendants of zebras brought to the San Simeon estate of...

Guardian Jan 6 American diplomats proposed Japan reduce whaling in exchange for US help cracking down on the anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd, leaked cables reveal Japan and the US proposed to investigate and act against international anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd...

Guardian Jan 12 Survival rates for king penguins with flipper bands dropped by 16% and the birds produced 39% fewer chicks Tagging the flippers of penguins for long-term scientific studies significantly limits their chances of survival and ability to raise chicks, according to a...

Telegraph Jan 12 Sarah Palin accused critics who said she had incitied Arizona shootings of perpetrating 'a blood libel' in a video message hours before President Barack Obama was due to call for unity in mourning for the victims In an eight-minute internet video, she said the gunman alone...

Guardian Jan 12 AP Political Writer= SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois again finds itself at the center of the death penalty debate as advocates on both sides wait to hear whether Gov. Pat Quinn will support abolishing capital punishment in a state that had 170 people awaiting execution...

BBC News jan 11 A space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter. Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. But results from the Fermi telescope show they also give out...

AOL She may not look like a happy hopper ... but who feels good about their weight right after the holidays? Agathe is a cane toad at the Hannover Zoo in Germany, and she wasn't singled out for her unflattering measurements -- the check was part of an annual animal inventory. Agathe...

Everyday household items could be created on the kitchen table by a "factory in a box" such as dishwasher knobs, bath plugs and even drinking bottles The Thing-O-Matic is a 3D printer which can create any object out of plastic within minutes. It was launched in Las Vegas this week and...

Telegraph Phoenix Jones, the masked superhero vigilante protecting the streets of a small American town, has had his nose broken and was threatened at gunpoint over the weekend The incident has prompted police to ask that he and others stop dressing up in costumes and instead notify the...

Telegraph British secret agent James Bond, 007, is set to return to cinemas for a 23rd version of the long-running and lucrative film franchise, its makers at EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio said on Tuesday night The announcement follows MGM's emergence from bankruptcy...

BBC News Jan 11 US Vice-President Joe Biden has said that his country will not leave Afghanistan in 2014 if the Afghan people do not want them to go. Speaking alongside President Hamid Karzai, Mr Biden said that the two countries share a common goal of a stable, sovereign Afghanistan...

BBC News Two Canadians injured in car collisions with moose in Newfoundland have filed a class-action lawsuit against the province, claiming it has not properly controlled the animal's numbers. The pair filed the case against the provincial government in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland...

BBC News Astronomers have released the largest-ever colour image of the whole sky, stitched from seven million images, each made of 125 million pixels. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's latest effort tops its own record, published publicly for professional astronomers and "citizen...

Telegraph Jan 11 It seems that being the lender of last resort in a financial crisis has its benefits. The US Federal Reserve recorded $80.9bn (£52bn) profit last year thanks to the interest payments on the vast amount of US government and private debt it now owns More than $75bn of the...