A pub landlady tells how she discovered a car embedded in the wall of the men's toilets.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will ask the Congress on Wednesday to increase and permanently extend a tax credit for business research as a way of boosting job growth, an administration officials said on Sunday.

US troops are called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents behind a deadly attack on an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, security officials tell the BBC.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- What began last month with the arrest of an opposition leader in Bahrain has mushroomed into a full-blown political offensive in the tiny Gulf nation with big fault line...

A massive landslide buried up to 100 people in Guatemala when they tried to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- What began last month with the arrest of an opposition leader in Bahrain has mushroomed into a full-blown political offensive in the tiny Gulf nation with big fault lin...

An unidentified Bahraini man passes a wall painted with a Quranic verse urging God to keep the country safe, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, in Jidhafs, Bahrain, on the outskirts of the capital Manama, The are...

Up to 100 people are feared buried by landslides in Guatemala, where 36 are confirmed dead as a result of heavy rains

Former X Factor contestant Olly Murs goes straight to the top of the UK singles chart with his debut single Please Don't Let Me Go.

Moto2 rider Shoya Tomizawa dies after a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix.

Still, Qatar has brushed aside questions about its climate and social constraints to launch an ambitious campaign to host the 2022 World Cup that is also being sought by the United States, Australia, ...

On the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan, the UAE president's charity will bear the travel costs of 200 prisoners who have completed their terms and are to be deported but don't have the money to return home.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp has offered a job to Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal involving inaccurate expense receipts related to a female contractor, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Oman and India today agreed to deepen their trade and investment partnership, including investing about $3 billion by Muscat for revival of fertilisers plants in India. Oman has agreed in-principle t...

A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.

الرئيس الايراني محمود احمدي نجاد عقد مؤتمرا صحفيا مشتركا في الدوحة مع امير قطر الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني قال فيه ان اي هجوم على ايران ستكون نتيجته محو اسرائيل.

Although Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that she has no intention in running for president again, President Barack Obama's former campaign manager wouldn't rule it out Sunday. David Plouffe told NBC's David Gregory that he doesn't anticipate a Democratic challenger in 2012 but deflected questions about a possible Clinton run. "Do you envision [...]

THE BOGUS NARRATIVE THAT WILL ONLY GET MORE UBIQUITOUS.... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) thinks he knows exactly what would improve President Obama's political fortunes. Take a wild guess what he suggests. "The only way the president could possibly survive is...

Organisers say more than 23,000 people took part in this year's Great Scottish Run, held in Glasgow.

Don't rule out attack on Iran, Blair says Vice-President Dick Cheney's vision of completely redrawing the map of the Middle East following the 9/11 attacks is "not stupid," and is "possible over time," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says. In his new book, A Journey, the former Labour Party leader wrote that Cheney wanted [...]