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Young brothers admit assault charge

Two brothers have pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent relating to an attack on a nine-year-old and an eleven-year-old.

Brown names dead hostage handed over in Iraq

Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday named a dead hostage whose body was handed over in Baghdad this week as Alec MacLachlan, one of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq in 2007.

PM confirms body of hostage handed over in Iraq

Prime Minister Gordon Brown confirmed Thursday that the body of Alec MacLachlan, one of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq in 2007, had been handed to the British embassy in Baghdad.

Iraq body confirmed as UK Hostage

The body handed to officials in Iraq has been identified as that of British hostage Alec MacLachlan.

Iraq body is identified as hostage

A body handed to the British authorities in Iraq is that of Alec MacLachlan, Gordon Brown confirmed.

Troop funerals as death toll grows

The families of three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan remembered their "heroes" at their funerals as another two UK fatalities were announced.

CDC study: Swine flu deaths higher in older kids

About one in 13 U.S. swine flu deaths have been children and most of the kids have been of school age, the federal government said Thursday in its first study of the new flu's youngest victims.

Kennedy memoir calls Chappaquiddick 'inexcusable'

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy wrote in a memoir being published this month that he made terrible decisions after the 1969 car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne, but said he was never romantically involved with her and was haunted by that night for his entire life.

Stray bullet kills college student on Ga. campus

A 19-year-old college student walking on campus with friends was struck and killed by a stray bullet early Thursday at Clark Atlanta University, police said.

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