Hundreds of households are being warned to take action against high levels of a gas thought to lead to lung cancer.

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Lung cancer fears over radon gas

Police in Edinburgh keep apart two rival marches which gathered for rallies close to St Andrew’s house.

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Police keep rival marches apart

The Senate has been unusually active in recent weeks, potentially isolating House Republican leaders who have seized on the Senate inaction.

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Senate Is on a Roll in Passing Bipartisan Bills

HOUSE MINORITY Leader Nancy Pelosi has an interesting definition of what constitutes the middle class. She believes it includes people earning anything less than $1 million a year — at least when it comes to tax cuts. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Nancy Pelosi’s risky pander on taxes

Facebook this week is getting pounded for dropping the ball on mobile . Well, the White House doesn’t want the government to drop it, too. President Obama issued a directive Wednesday that encourages federal agencies to make their Web sites and documents accessible on mobile platforms. Read full article > >

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Government focusing on mobile

The Trinity Housing Association is to be asked to return £835,000 of public funds that it used to buy a house and grounds from the County Down developer Ken Campbell.

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Trinity asked to return £835,000

A small clue to Bernice Bennett’s past leapt out at her from the computer screen, on a scanned ledger filled with addresses entered with the precision penmanship that is a lost art. It was 72 years ago that census workers fanned out across the country, visiting houses to personally count the 132 million people living in the United States in 1940. And now the National Archives has opened up the once-confidential details of daily life in a nation living in the vise of economic collapse and impending war. Read full article > >

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1940 census draws historians and genealogists

More than a year after it was first announced, Bristol Palin’s latest foray into reality TV will finally become, well, a reality on June 19. Except that the premise has changed again slightly, bringing the premise tally to three, to date. Read full article > >

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Bristol, retooled again, set for debut; ‘House’ heads home

Officers investigate the cause of an explosion which leads to a house collapsing and two people suffering minor injuries.

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House collapses after explosion

A woman who killed her housemate by stabbing him after playing “sexual games” is convicted of culpable homicide.

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‘Sex games’ killing woman guilty

A seven-year-old boy dies following a house fire in Northamptonshire.

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Boy, 7, dies after house fire

For all of Mitt Romney’s talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House — Bomb Iran? Or was it Planned Parenthood? — there’s just as good a chance he would be tacking up two pictures on the wall. One would be of George H.W. Bush and the other of Jimmy Carter. They both became one-term presidents after they were challenged in the primaries. This is a lesson for Romney. Read full article > >

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The Romney you see is the one you’d get

White House counter-terror chief will choose targets.

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U.S. Announces New Drone Policy

The two lives of John Edwards have collided spectacularly in the federal courthouse where the government is trying him on charges of campaign finance fraud and conspiracy.

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Edwards Trial Shows Affair’s Strains on Campaign

Crowded House drummer Peter Jones dies at the age of 45.

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Crowded House drummer Jones dies