AP - Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing. (full story...)

Increasing numbers of people in the west recognise that capitalism as it is now does not answer our core needsThe question: Is capitalism a spiritual failure?I remember many years ago meeting the then head of British Telecom's futures department who talked about the serious possibility of computers taking over the world.I scoffed at the time, i....(more) (full story...)

An independent review of the UK's controversial extradition laws is due to be announced by the home secretary, with a likely focus on the US-UK treaty. (full story...)

One month after a fire damaged a building leased by the Friends of the Palo Alto Library, the group is still looking for a new space to store, sort and sell thousands of donated books. (full story...)

Fourth in the season-preview series STEPHENVILLE, Texas - It was 1:30 a.m., and 17-year-old Kevin Kolb crept in from the cool November night, into the modest one-floor home his parents rented here. (full story...)

Coroner is among those denied access to results of examination commissioned by lawyers for policeman who hit G20 bystanderA separate postmortem into the death of Ian Tomlinson carried out on behalf of the policeman filmed hitting him at the G20 protests last year has been withheld from the authorities, it has emerged.The postmortem, the third on th....(more) (full story...)

by Jonathan Hiskes. Michigan gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder is an unusual Republican. In a year when Tea Party fervor has propelled fire-breathing extremists onto ballots around the country, Snyder comes across as a moderate, sensible Republican with crossover appeal. He’s a high-tech venture capitalist and former president of the Gatewa....(more) (full story...)

Eighteen killed and 94 wounded as militants attack residential compound of officers' complex in PeshawarA car bomb ripped through a police compound in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing 18 people, including 14 women and children and four officers, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a pote....(more) (full story...)

Two high-school sweethearts from Camden County once wrote their names on a sandy beach, with a big heart between them. Now Paige Pfefferle is in jail, charged with murder, after authorities said that the 19-year-old former cheerleader stabbed Matthew Hus near his heart during an argument in her Audubon Park home Saturday....(more) (full story...)

Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern and southern Mexico see floodwaters inundate their homes. (full story...)