A deal between Royal Mail and the postal union means restrictions on the amount of junk mail being delivered has been lifted.

An Arizona-based identity theft protection provider will pay $11 million in restitution to consumers in connection…

A retired British couple snatched last year from their sailboat by pirates could be released within weeks as Somali communities inside and outside the East African country work for their freedom, a Somali official said Friday.

A New Zealand family kicked out of Morocco for teaching Christianity to Muslim orphans are safe on their way to Spain, their family says.Aucklanders Chris and Tina Broadbent and their two young children were given an hour and…

US congressional panel’s resolution describing ‘genocide’ of Armenians could damage relations, warns Turkish PM Turkey’s prime minister warned of serious damage to US-Turkish relations today after a congressional committee approved a resolution describing the massacre of more than 1 million Armenians by the Ottoman empire during the first world war as genocide. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had been accused of a crime it did not commit, adding that the resolution would hamper efforts by Turkey and Armenia to end a century of hostility . Turkey last night recalled its ambassador after the house foreign affairs committee approved 23-22 the non-binding measure despite objections from the Obama administration , which had warned that such a move would harm relations with Turkey – a Nato ally with about 1,700 troops in Afghanistan – and could imperil fragile reconciliation talks between Turkey and Armenia. The Turkish president, Abdullah Gul, called the resolution “an injustice to history and to the science of history”. Armenia applauded the passage of the measure, which its foreign minister, Edward Nalbandian, described as “an important step towards the prevention of crimes against humanity”. He added: “This is further proof of the devotion of the American people to universal human values and is an important step towards the prevention of crimes against humanity.” It remained unclear whether the resolution would come to a vote in the full house

Toyota plans to try to undercut suggestions that its electronics systems caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to its recall of vehicles.

Detroit is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.