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LONDON—What happens in the palace stays in the palace. New rules in Britain make Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William exempt from freedom of information laws, meaning many private details won’t be made […] […]

A FORMER CIA agent jailed for spying for Russia in 1997 has had eight years added to his prison term, after admitting using his son to pass more secrets to Moscow while behind bars. Harold […] […]

Question: My husband can’t get over my recent affair. I don’t feel guilty; I needed it. Our marriage of 11 years had been dull and routine. He’s happiest sprawled on the couch watching sports, won’t […] […]

Two Toronto men pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges in Los Angeles after police there raided a warehouse filled with romaine lettuce, parsley and a locked safe containing more than 47 kilograms of cocaine […] […]

SACRAMENTO – In a cautionary tale for users of social-networking sites, a California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women’s email accounts, then send nude pictures of them […] […]

A South Carolina teenager shot and killed his father and his 83-year-old great aunt, and critically wounded his 80-year-old grandmother before he called police to report the attack. The shootings happened Monday night in a […] […]

A judge will decide whether former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will be tried on charges that include corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster, says a lawyer for the ex-strongman. […] […]

IT was a killing that shocked Europe but, after a quarter of a century without a credible culprit, new evidence has emerged that may help to solve the mystery of who murdered the Swedish Prime […] […]

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up among a crowd of police recruits in the Iraqi city of Tikrit yesterday, killing 50 people and wounding 150. The blast in the insurgency stronghold was the deadliest since […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s former top legal official says Tony Blair insisted the U.K. could join the 2003 invasion of Iraq without additional backing from the U.N., despite legal advice which told him that was untrue. Peter Goldsmith, […] […]