Eleven suspects charged in the alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners were taken from prison Tuesday for their first appearance in court.

Former President Gerald Ford has received a cardiac pacemaker and is in stable condition at the Mayo Clinic, where the procedure was done, a statement from his office said Monday.

Reuters - Britain may cut its force in Iraq in half by the middle of next year after handing over security responsibility for the south of the country to Iraqis within nine months, a senior British commander said on Tuesday.

AFP - Iran is set to respond to a deal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff but has already signalled it was likely to defy the international community and refuse to freeze sensitive atomic work.

The head of the state railway is dismissed after a train collision killed 58 people and injuring nearly 150.

An Arizona man dies after being stung more than 300 times by a swarm of "killer" bees. Charlie Pasley, 39, was working with his father Chuck to make repairs on a roof in Huachuca City when the honey bees arrived. He died at the scene....

John Mark Karr, who has been arrested in Thailand in connection with the death of JonBenet Ramsey, has arrived in the United States and met with an attorney in Los Angeles. Karr, 41, will likely go along with requests for extradition, and will soon be in Boulder, Colorado where he faces charges...

Two suspected Al-Qaeda militants are arrested in connection with a suicide attack that killed a U.S. diplomat and three Pakistanis. Police took Anwarul Haq, 30, and Usman Ghani, 28, into custody for allegedly orchestrating the attack near the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan....

AP - Defendants in the second Saddam Hussein trial insisted on Tuesday that Iraq's military was attacking Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels only when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in which tens of thousands of Kurds were killed.

AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried to defuse growing public anger Monday over his handling of the war against Hezbollah, promising to rebuild rocket-scarred border areas but rejecting peace talks with Syria, a key supporter of the Lebanese guerrillas.

AP - Customers shop around when they buy an airline ticket or a new car, so why not when they need a hip replacement or treatment for a sore throat?

The Prince's Trust sets up its own qualification to improve the employment prospects of young people.

US astronomers say they have found the first direct evidence of the mysterious stuff called dark matter.

Keane frontman Tom Chaplin is being treated for drink and drug problems, the band confirm.

The first large-scale deployment of high-speed wireless technology known as Wimax could be in Milton Keynes.

Technology commentator Bill Thompson says the web was a powerful tool - but underused - during the airport chaos on Thursday.

Nearly 450,000 people have come to the UK from new EU countries since May 2004, say new government figures.

Eleven people arrive at court to appear over an alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic airliners.

A boy from Stoke-on-Trent dies in hospital after being shot in the eye with an airgun pellet.