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Mich. police charged Harlan James Drake with first-degree murder.

A French court has jailed MarieHelene Martinez 29 and her husband JeanPaul Steijns 39 for 20 and 10 years respectively for killing their two children with poisoned cannelloni.

Wall Street had a solid session overnight, with share prices closing sharply higher amid more takeover activity and encouraging results on manufacturing during June.

A year ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a panic some called the end of capitalism. Today, bailed-out banks are again posting record profits. From his perch in New York, business reporter Sinclair Stewart looks back and asks what, if anything, Wall Street has learned

A cabinet minister last night raised the spectre of a return to 1930s fascism, warning of 'parallels' between right-wing groups planning protests in Muslim neighbourhoods and Oswald Mosley's incendiary marches through Jewish areas of east london.Announcing a government drive to address issues alienating white, working-class people at risk of being 'exploited' by the far-right, John Denham, the secretary of state for communities and local government, singled out protests being organised by the English Defence League.The group, which has organised a number of protests in recent months which have turned violent, will hold events in Manchester, Leeds, london and Bristol in the coming weeks. Tomorrow hundreds of supporters are expected to demonstrate in their highest profile gathering yet, in Trafalgar Square.'I think that the English Defence League and other organisations are not actually large numbers of people,' Denham said. 'They clearly, though, have among them people who know what exa

At least four people have been killed in two days of rioting in Uganda's capital after radio broadcasts encouraged listeners to violently take to the streets against the government, officials said Friday.

After five days of steady gains in stock markets, investors cashed in some of their profits on Friday, pushing prices slightly lower.

A British diplomat killed in Jamaica was the victim of a homophobic attack, reports have suggested. John Terry was serving as the honorary consul to the British High Commission in when he was found murdered earlier this week.

Authorities have charged a Michigan man with two counts of murder in the Friday shooting deaths of an anti-abortion activist and another man in a separate location, a prosecutor's office said. Authorities said the suspect, Harlan James Drake, was offended by anti-abortion material that activist Jim Pouillon (above) had displayed across from a school.

A revolutionary runs through the busy streets of Hong Kong, pulling a rickshaw carrying Sun Yat-sen. He keeps glancing anxiously over his shoulder, on the lookout for assassins who plan to kill the future leader of the 1911 revolution. The 15-second scene, for the upcoming film is being shot not on location but on an elaborate set built on the outskirts of Shanghai. As big as 10 football fields, this full-scale replica of a section of the former British colony took a year to build, cost $5 million-a fifth of the film's budget-and includes the façades of about 200 shops and a near-exact copy of Pottinger (Stone Slab) Street.