Some airline pilots would fly fewer hours and others would fly longer under proposed rules to help prevent dangerous fatigue, transportation and labor officials.

A disgraced financial manager for Hollywood stars including Uma Thurman, Al Pacino and Martin Scorsese has pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court to fraud worth £33 million.

President Obama on Friday stressed that the United States is not at war with Islam, blasting a Florida pastor who's threatening to burn copies of the Koran for potentially endangering American forces serving in Muslim lands.

"You don't play games" with the lives of U.S. troops, an animated Mr. Obama ...

Harrowing details of alleged sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Belgium are released by an official Church investigator.

A toddler whose heart stopped for nearly an hour after he fell into a ditch of freezing water has made a remarkable recovery.

Three more cases of Legionnaires' disease are identified as health officials close a cooling tower in Merthyr Tydfil until it is cleaned and disinfected.

A man convicted of battering and strangling a vulnerable young woman in County Antrim is to appeal the guilty verdict.

U.S. Department of Agriculture experts found bugs and trash earlier this year on the Iowa farm at the center of the big recent egg recall, but didn't notify federal health authorities or delay production.

A lifeboat crew member who won a bravery award for a daring rescue was claiming disability benefit at the same time, a court is told.

Iran has received an ancient Persian treasure from the British Museum after a dispute over its loan to the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president intervened to secure the release of Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans jailed for more than 13 months, in part because of her gender, a news agency reported Friday.

Iranian officials have announced that on Saturday they will free Shourd, although they have ...

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol are closely linked to death from cardiovascular disease, a Dutch study has found.

Volunteers are calling on the MS Society not to abandon four respite care centres in York, Surrey, Warwickshire and East Lothian

Truck driver survives crashing into bridge on motorway in China.

Three men are jailed for a sex attack on a woman which only came to light when the victim saw footage of it on a mobile phone.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a woman accused of fatally shooting two co-workers and wounding a third at a Kraft Foods plant in Philadelphia had feuded with her victims.

Police Homicide Captain James Clark says 43-year-old Yvonne Hiller of Philadelphia has been charged with two counts of murder, attempted ...