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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear test, saying the international community must stand up to Pyongyang. Mr. Obama says North Korea’s actions endanger its neighbors, and are a blatant violation of international law. President Obama appeared before television cameras at the White House to deliver a blunt message to North [...]

STUDENTS and parents will have to sign a 'user agreement' that they will not misuse or mistreat the new laptop computers to be rolled out in schools from next term.

Sensors in Britain picked up a tremor that registered five on the Richter scaleAt 1.06am today, sensors at the ­British Geological Survey's stations in Devon, Herefordshire and Aberdeen picked up a tremor that registered around magnitude five on the Richter scale.Yet it was quickly clear this was no earthquake.'Earthquakes and nuclear bombs have quite different seismographs,' said the survey's David Booth. 'Earthquakes happen along fault lines and you get compression waves, known as P-waves, and shear waves from the movement. With a bomb it is mostly just compression waves meaning the ­seismograph is a lot less complicated.' The epicentre of the explosion was in the county of Kilju, deep in the mountains of north-eastern North Korea and the home of the P'unggye-yok nuclear test site used when the authorities last exploded a nuclear device in October 2006.Analysts expecttoday's test to have been carried out in a similar way to the previous one, when a horizontal hole was drilled into

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World leaders are condemning North Korea's reported underground nuclear bomb test today. The latest on reactions by the White House and the U.N. Security Council.

The kids at Stonebrae Elementary school in Hayward handed in their musical instruments on Friday - and may never get them back. For some, the simple act of saying farewell to a flute or a violin is a metaphor for the precarious future of public education in...

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County officials across California are worried that state leaders whose budget-balancing ballot measures were rejected in last week's special election will not reimburse local governments for the cost of the failed attempt, a bill that could reach $100...

A woman has been tested for swine flu at Kojonup hospital, in Western Australia's Great Southern, after feeling unwell on a bus travelling from Perth to Albany.