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US Vice-President Joe Biden who is currently visiting the UK, could have got his itinerary changed due to a typo in his schedule.

Shoe fans brawl at Florida Foot Locker store in desperation to get hands on limited-edition £140 footwear.

Scientists from Newcastle University have discovered that space bugs - Bacillus stratosphericus and Bacillus altitudinis - bacteria normally found 30km above the earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity.

US President Barak Obama apologised for the burning of Korans by US troops at a military base in Afghanistan.

An eight-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital after a nine-year-old classmate shot her during a lesson in Seattle, Washington.

Mitt Romney's campaign appears to have undertaken a huge push to rectify the candidate's "robotic" persona amongst potential voters.

Majority Sunnis and minority Alawites turning against each other, says rebel soldier Waki Khaled.

An Iranian court has confirmed the death sentence against Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor jailed in 2009 on charges of apostasy after he converted to Christianity, a religious group said.

Andrew Flood leads police to bodies of two elderly women customers of taxi firm.

Bashar al-Assad's troops have 'duty' to defect to Syrian Free Army, senior Islamic scholars warn in pan-Arab statement.

Apparently, a video showing an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) landing near the famed Roswell crash site in New Mexico has surfaced and is rapidly doing the rounds on the Internet.

Judge sparks uproar for light sentence and for calling child victim 'willing participant' in rape by two men.

Vague crackdown promised on fiddles by corrupt politicians and officials in cahoots with international crime rings.

Scandal sheet publishes sneak front-page picture of singer's corpse in open casket at private family viewing.

Passengers were thrown to the floor, many injured and blood-soaked by the shattered glasses and mangled metals.

President Cristina Fernandez has declared two days of mourning and called off the Carnival festivities while expressing her condolences to the families of the victims.

Youth groups warn 20,000 activists will patrol streets as warning to opponents of Vladimir Putin.

More than 40 commuters feared dead and 550 injured as train hurtles into barrier at Once station, in Argentina's capital.

Rick Santorum has refused to apologise for remarks he made four years ago in which he said "Satan has set his sights on the United States" but his comments drew renewed criticism from Republican heavyweights on Wednesday.

Officials from the Guinness World Records organisations will arrive in Nepal this weekend, to measure Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who says he is only 22 inches (56 centimeters) tall.

Two-year-old Aaron Booth's windpipe disintegrated after swallowing plant food used by Lauren Booth to grow skunk, jury told.

Body of five-year-old Dayana Arlotti, believed to be youngest passenger on board, recovered from wreckage.

Losar low-key in wake of 16 protesters burning themselves to death in protest at Chinese rule.

Their faces convey an optimism that is all too frequently missing from the heavy-glossed campaign photos that gaze out from all too familiar stump speeches. Did you see the picture of Mitt Romney's mussed hair? What about Ron Paul's renowned baseball swing? Or the picture of hipster Newt Gingrich?

Based on feedback from users, Google has recently announced a new update to the Google bar - the navigation bar that runs across Google products - including Google menu, the search box and the Google+ sharing facility.

Lent begins in Louisiana as hundreds of thousands of people attend New Orleans' huge street party.

Alex was a famous parrot not only able to talk rather fluently but, it now appears, also able to count objects and perform numerical calculations, according to an article published in Animal Cognition, by Irene Pepperberg.

Verdict date to be announced in trial of toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Investigators say huge blaze at Honduras prison which killed 360 convicts not deliberate probably started by dropped cigarette.