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(BBC) The aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious will be sent to help people affected by the typhoon in the Philippines, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Speaking on a visit to India, Mr Cameron also said the UK government had now given…

(BBC) The Obama administration has said barely 27,000 Americans enrolled for health insurance through its troubled federal website in the first month. About 106,000 people were insured in total, most of them through the state-run websites.…

(BBC) Former German President Christian Wulff is going on trial accused of receiving and granting favours in office. He is alleged to have accepted the payment of hotel bills by a film producer in return for lobbying while he was premier…

(BBC) The Philippine government says it is facing its biggest ever logistical challenge after Typhoon Haiyan, which has affected up to 11 million people. Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras said the government had been overwhelmed by the…

(BBC) A third of all adult Americans should consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, according to the first such new guidelines in a decade. It is estimated that 33 million Americans - 44% of men and 22% of women - would meet the…

(BBC) Former US President Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama should find a way to let Americans keep their health coverage under his health law. Insurance companies have cancelled numerous policies that do not meet the law's strict…

(BBC) At least 10,000 people are feared to have been killed by Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the central Philippines on Friday. The UN says more than 11 million people are believed to have been affected by the storm, and some 673,000…

(BBC) A team of 12 British surgeons and paramedics is being sent to the Philippines to help the aid effort following the "appalling devastation" of Typhoon Haiyan, the PM has said. David Cameron said the team, together with the first…

(BBC) A Montreal man has died following an altercation with police in which officers fired an electric stun gun at him, Canadian media report. The man was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Monday night after the confrontation with…

Paris, France -- Jamaica’s minister of youth and culture, Lisa Hanna, led a delegation of CARICOM ministers and ambassadors in a meeting with the leadership of UNESCO on Monday to secure funding for education, youth and culture…

Manila, Philippines (AP) — One of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into the Philippines on Friday, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one entire province and cutting communications in the country's central region…

(CNN) President Barack Obama's apology to Americans whose health insurance plans are being canceled because of the Affordable Care Act opens the door to the question of how the problem will be fixed -- even as his administration tries to…

(BBC) A Royal Marine has been found guilty by a military court of murdering an injured Afghan insurgent in 2011. Two other marines were acquitted at the Military Court Centre in Wiltshire. The three - Marines A, B and C - had denied…

(CNN) The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday she believes he was killed. "I'm convinced it was a political murder, a political assassination," Suha Arafat told CNN in a telephone interview from Doha, the capital of…

New York (AP) -- The price of oil crawled above US$95 a barrel Thursday, adding to gains from the previous session on data showing a strong increase in US-demand for gasoline. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark US crude for December…