'Rot' in Air Force nuclear watch

8 May 2013 Last updated at 15:44 ET The US Air Force has stripped 17 officers of the authority to control nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, US media have reported. The unprecedented action was taken in April, after the unit's deputy...

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Jodi Arias convicted of murder

8 May 2013 Last updated at 18:39 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Jodi Arias wept quietly as the verdict was read out A California woman has been found guilty of premeditated murder in the shooting...

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Nun guilty of nuclear site break-in

8 May 2013 Last updated at 20:42 ET An elderly Catholic nun and two peace activists have been convicted for damage they caused while breaking into a US nuclear defence site. Sister Megan Rice, 83, Michael Walli, 64, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 56,...

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Enron chief set for reduced sentence

8 May 2013 Last updated at 21:02 ET The former chief executive of Enron could be released from prison nearly a decade earlier than expected. Jeffrey Skilling presided over Enron when it became embroiled in one of the biggest corporate frauds...

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Harry to begin seven-day US visit

9 May 2013 Last updated at 01:49 ET Prince Harry begins a seven-day visit to the United States later, starting with a trip to Washington and an engagement with a landmine clearance charity supported by his mother, Diana. During the trip, which...

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Doubt cast on study of lead in rice

9 May 2013 Last updated at 04:38 ET By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Tests indicating that rice imported to the US contained high levels of lead have been cast into doubt. At a conference in April, researchers reported...

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Official describes Benghazi attack

9 May 2013 Last updated at 06:28 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Gregory Hicks said the US explanation that Benghazi was a spontaneous attack was "embarrassing" A top US official who was in Libya...

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3-D print gun hits 100,000 downloads

9 May 2013 Last updated at 07:05 ET The blueprint used to produce a 3D-printed plastic gun has been downloaded about 100,000 times since going online earlier this week, according to Forbes. Defense Distributed told the news site it was surprised...

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Tech girl blocks tweet plot spoilers

9 May 2013 Last updated at 08:00 ET For people watching on-demand content, negotiating social media before they have watched their favourite show can be fraught. It inspired American teenager Jennie Lamere to create software designed to stop...

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Cleveland kidnap accused in court

9 May 2013 Last updated at 09:10 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Ariel Castro was charged with kidnap and rape The man accused of imprisoning three women for about a decade in the US city of Cleveland...

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Marge Simpson 'inspiration' dies

7 May 2013 Last updated at 11:58 ET Margaret Groening, the mother of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and the basis for animated matriarch Marge, has died in Portland, Oregon aged 94. Her death was announced in an obituary notice in The Oregonian,...

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New Jersey governor has gastric band

7 May 2013 Last updated at 12:42 ET The governor of New Jersey, often mentioned as a possible future Republican presidential candidate, has undergone gastric band surgery. The famously overweight Chris Christie had the operation in February...

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US military sex assaults on rise

7 May 2013 Last updated at 15:23 ET President Barack Obama has said sexual harassment and assault will not be tolerated in the US military. His spoke as figures showed reported sexual assaults in the US military rose from 3,192 to 3,374 in...

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Insanity plea for 'Batman gunman'

7 May 2013 Last updated at 18:16 ET The man accused of killing 12 people and injuring dozens in the July massacre at a Batman film in Colorado intends to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers have said. Lawyers for James Holmes,...

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Shamed ex-governor wins House race

7 May 2013 Last updated at 21:40 ET A former South Carolina governor who left office in disgrace after admitting an extramarital affair has won a comeback election to the US Congress. Mark Sanford defeated Democratic businesswoman Elizabeth...

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Metal star arrested over murder plot

8 May 2013 Last updated at 04:31 ET The singer of Grammy-nominated US heavy metal band As I Lay Dying has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to plot the murder of his estranged wife. Police in California said Tim Lambesis, 32, had tried...

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Tributes paid to 'giant' Harryhausen

8 May 2013 Last updated at 04:59 ET A host of directors have paid tribute to visual effects guru Ray Harryhausen following his death at the age of 92. Britain's Nick Park said he was "one of the true greats", while George Lucas said that without...

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Police to quiz Cleveland suspects

8 May 2013 Last updated at 05:22 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Neighbours of Ariel Castro speak to the BBC Police investigating the abduction of three women for about a decade in Cleveland,...

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Ancient bone-headed dinosaur found

8 May 2013 Last updated at 06:29 ET By Helen Briggs BBC News Scientists have unveiled a new species of bone-headed dinosaur, which they say is the oldest in North America, and possibly the world. The dog-sized plant-eater had a dome-shaped...

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Madonna sells painting for $7.2m

8 May 2013 Last updated at 06:54 ET A painting by Fernand Leger owned by Madonna has been sold for $7.2 million (£4.7m) in New York. The singer bought the 1921 Cubist work, Three Women at the Red Table, in 1990 for $3.4m (£2.2m). According...

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US returns stolen Mongolia dinosaur

7 May 2013 Last updated at 05:50 ET The US has returned a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton which was smuggled from Mongolia. The near-complete skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus bataar was handed over to Mongolian officials at a ceremony in...

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New Yorker writes King James Bible

6 May 2013 Last updated at 12:26 ET A New York state man is finishing up his handwritten copy of the King James Bible after four years and 2,400 pages. Phillip Patterson, 63, began the project after his long-time partner, Mohammed, told him...

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Tsarnaev friend released on bail

6 May 2013 Last updated at 15:47 ET A judge in the US has agreed to release pending trial a friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who is accused of lying to FBI investigators. Robel Phillipos, 19, is to be freed on a $100,000 (£64,300)...

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Bride among dead in US limo blaze

6 May 2013 Last updated at 16:01 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The limousine was travelling on the San Mateo bridge in San Francisco when smoke started to escape from the back A newlywed was among...

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New York to sue banks over mortgages

6 May 2013 Last updated at 17:14 ET New York's attorney general has said he plans to sue major lenders Bank of America and Wells Fargo for violating a $25bn (£16bn) mortgage settlement. Eric Schneiderman said the two had not done enough to...

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Lauryn Hill jailed for tax evasion

6 May 2013 Last updated at 18:24 ET Singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced in the US state of New Jersey to three months in jail for tax evasion. The Grammy-winning singer, 37, also faces three months of home confinement, after pleading guilty...

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Senate backs online sales tax plan

6 May 2013 Last updated at 19:51 ET The US Senate has passed a bill that would impose sales taxes on online retailers, after brick-and-mortar shops called for "a level playing field". The 69-27 vote to enable states to collect the taxes sends...

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Air Force anti-assault boss arrested

6 May 2013 Last updated at 20:42 ET The officer tasked with stemming sexual attacks in the US Air Force has been arrested and accused of sexual assault in Virginia, police have said. Lt Col Jeff Krusinski was drunk when he grabbed a woman's...

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Missing US women found after decade

7 May 2013 Last updated at 08:59 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A neighbour, Charles Ramsey, tells reporters: "We had to kick open the bottom of the door" Three young women who vanished in separate...

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Briton admits US child cannibal plot

7 May 2013 Last updated at 09:17 ET A Briton faces up to 27 years in an US jail for plotting to kidnap, rape, kill and eat a child, authorities say. Agents found the basement of Geoffrey Portway's Massachusetts home equipped with a steel cage...

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Burial wrangle for Boston suspect

4 May 2013 Last updated at 04:44 ET The search is on for a cemetery to bury Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as protesters picket the funeral home holding his body. The director of the funeral home in Worcester, Massachusetts, likened...

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