A US couple who boasted on a TV show they made as much as $3,500 (2,318) a week by selling shoplifted toys online have been sentenced to prison terms. Matthew Eaton, 34, got 27 months in jail. His wife Laura Eaton, 27, was sentenced to one...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reshuffled his cabinet after a heavy defeat for his party in regional polls. Labour Minister Xavier Darcos has been replaced by Budget Minister Eric Woerth, whose place is being taken by Francois Baroin...
The UK will formally launch its new space agency on Tuesday. The nation has been alone among the major industrialised nations in not having an executive body to direct its activities beyond the Earth's surface. The new organisation is expe...
An Israeli has been killed by his own forces in a border incident in which three Palestinians illegally crossing the border from Gaza were seized. The Israeli army said the Palestinians were unarmed and thought to be looking for work when...
More than a third of British Airways flights at the UK's major airports have so far been cancelled on the third day of strike action by cabin crew. According to BA's website, 238 of the 691 flights due to take off or land at 11 major UK ai...
Former US Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton have been visiting Haiti as part of their fund-raising efforts to aid the earthquake-stricken nation. They visited camps for some of the 1.3 million homeless survivors and met President R...
