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Parts of an Arizona immigration law are now in effect after a federal judge blocked several of its most controversial aspects yesterday.

Pakistani officials are reporting that no one survived the crash of a passenger plane on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad yesterday with 152 people on board.

UNITED NATIONS (AP):The United Nations (UN) turned to a Canadian woman yesterday, who was chief auditor for the World Bank, as its choice for the next head of the UN's internal watchdog agency.

A health expert has warned that an epidemic of dengue fever in the Caribbean and Latin America has increased the risk of an outbreak of the sometimes deadly mosquito-borne virus in South Florida.

Flooding in northeastern China has stranded 30,000 people in one town and washed 1,000 barrels of explosive chemicals into a river.

Two boys who were found guilty of the attempted rape of an eight year-old girl in west London have lost their appeals against their convictions.

The High Court in Britain has ruled that the government is acting unlawfully in speeding up the deportation of foreign nationals who have been refused permission to stay in the country.

Oil giant British Petroleum (BP) chief executive Tony Hayward will get an immediate annual pension worth about £600,000 sterling when he leaves in October.

A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant has revealed his new look on television.

Workers on ships at the site of the Gulf of Mexico British Petroleum (BP) oil spill are making final preparations to leave as a weakened Tropical Storm Bonnie nears.

China is considering reviewing the number of crimes which attract the death penalty.

WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration, one of the most deliberative in recent United States history, has for a second time found itself politically embarrassed over a hair-trigger reaction on race.While denying direct involvement in the improper...