AP - The NCAA says the University of Dayton will host all four first-round games of the newly expanded men's basketball tournament next March. (full story...)

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The FBI is asking for help with yet another bank robbery. Two men armed with at least one handgun took over an Atlanta bank Thursday morning and escaped with an undisclosed sum, said Atlanta FBI Special Agent in Charge Brian D. (full story...)

One dead, the other seriously injured in crash one month after mo men t of passion was controversially published in newspaperTheirs was a kiss that stunned a conservative town. When a mo men t of passion between two men was published on a newspaper front page, it provok....(more) (full story...)

At 33 and retired from professional tennis, Tripp Phillips is back at the United States Open scouting talented juniors as an assistant coach for the North Carolina men's tennis team. (full story...)

Spanish artist who filled the pages of 1950s British comicsIn the late 1950s, Fernando Fernández, who has died aged 70, was one of the youngest of a group of Spanish artists working for the British comics publisher Fleetway Publications. Only 17 when his first strips were published, Fernández filled the pages of British comics for the next dec....(more) (full story...)

• 'Strong likelihood' of violent attacks if if burning goes ahead• US pastor hints at cancelling event if contacted by ObamaInterpol, the international police agency, has warned of an increased risk of terror attacks if the planned burning of the Qur'an by extremist US pastor Terry Jones takes place on Saturday."If the burning goes....(more) (full story...)

To call Batman a bad role model for boys because he is 'socially unjust' is to miss the complexity of such superheroesAfter surveying 674 boys aged four to 18, Professor Sharon Lamb of the University of Massachusetts criticised the narrow depictions of masculinity in recent movie adaptations of Iron Man and Batman. These films, argued the p....(more) (full story...)

A lorry driver is arrested after two men die when they are hit as they walk along the M6 close to Sandbach in Cheshire. (full story...)

Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of warTwelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering ....(more) (full story...)