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Country star BUCK JONES was hit and killed on Saturday (17MAR07) after breaking down on a remote Texas road. The aspiring singer was trying to get hi

Turkey's main stock index and its currency, the lira, fall amid a row over a vote for the country's next president.

A girl is indecently assaulted in a country park as she pushes two young children in a buggy.

The British people will get their last chance to vote against Tony Blair this Thursday, David Cameron has said. Addressing a Conservative rally in Swindon at the weekend, he urged voters in the local elections to show what they think of 10 years of Blair and Brown.

Having landed on US soil for the first time, the Airbus A380 prepares for a tour of the country.

Robert Mugabe's regime has launched a desperate attempt to shut off the country from the outside world, arresting and assaulting key opposition leaders as they attempted to leave Zimbabwe and stealing the body of a murdered activist to prevent his funeral from taking place.

In a divided country where political and racial differences have been exploited by a regime intent on staying in power, there is one thing that almost all Zimbabweans have in common: the burial society.

"I have fled twice in the past year," said Kassim Naji Salaman as he stood beside his petrol tanker outside the town of Khanaqin in central Iraq this weekend. "I and my family used to live in Baghdad but we ran for our lives when my uncle and nephew were killed and we moved into a house in the village of Kanaan in Diyala."

Politicians are expected to back a surprise proposal to build the country's first Las Vegas-style supercasino in Manchester.

Zimbabwe's food crisis will worsen this year because of a drought that has decimated maize and other key crops, a government minister said on Tuesday amid rising tension in the economically-depressed African country.