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LONDON—Prince William and girlfriend Kate Middleton are engaged and will marry in London next year, royal officials said Tuesday. Prince Charles’ Clarence House office said the heir to the throne is “delighted to announce the […] […]

The British government will tonight announce details of settlements agreed with a group of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees who were suing the UK for alleged complicity in their torture overseas. Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said […] […]

MANY people “want to be deceived” about climate change because they fear having to sacrifice their lifestyles, according to the “Climategate” scientist. Professor Phil Jones said he regretted sending several of the emails, which were […] […]

NEW DELHI—A four-story building collapsed in a congested neighbourhood in New Delhi Monday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 60 others, a top police official said. Many more people were trapped under debris after […] […]

SHANGHAI—Fire engulfed a highrise apartment building under renovation in China’s business centre of Shanghai on Monday, killing at least eight people, injuring more than 90 and sending some residents racing down scaffolding to escape. A […] […]

LONDON—British police say they have arrested and charged an American man for stealing hundreds of rare bird skins from a British museum outside London. Detectives investigating the theft of nearly 300 brightly colored stuffed birds […] […]

NEW YORK — Federal investigators are piecing together details of an audacious new trend in drug smuggling: South American gangs are buying old jets, stuffing them full of cocaine and flying them across the Atlantic […] […]

Question: I’m a 50-year-old divorced woman with a great teenage son and a wonderful job. I should be really happy, but my boyfriend, 58, is a self-described commitment-phobe who keeps breaking up with me because […] […]

NOT all relationships are meant to last forever, no matter what your online soul mate test assures you about your beau. Fact is, there is a time when you have to draw the line — […] […]

NEW YORK, USA — Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the former reputed Jamaican drugs and weapons dealer, will return to a Manhattan Court here tomorrow for the next phase of his pre-trial preparations. Coke has been in […] […]