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Reports of suspected sham marriages in England and Wales have risen by 66% in a year, as the Home Office steps up measures to stop them. Registrars reported 934 suspected sham marriages in 2010, compared to 561 in 2009 and 344 the year…

The windfall tax on oil companies announced in the Budget will not be passed on to motorists in higher fuel prices, a Treasury minister has said. The chancellor announced a £2bn windfall tax on North Sea oil producers, to pay for a fuel…

Chinese health authorities are renewing a push to ban smoking in indoor public places, adding more venues like hotels and restaurants as of May 1, though still excluding many workplaces. The guidelines given on the Health Ministry's…

A drug discovered with the help of tadpoles could prevent the spread of the deadliest form of skin cancer. The drug leflunomide is already used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. But after tests on tadpoles scientists have concluded it could…

Many shops in Tokyo ran out of bottled water on Thursday after radiation from a damaged nuclear plant made tap water unsafe for babies, while more countries imposed curbs on imports of Japanese food. Engineers are trying to stabilize the…

Are kids slipping through the cracks in Facebook's just-ask age screening approach? The social networking site kicks off around 20,000 underage users per day, its chief privacy adviser, Mozelle Thompson, told Australia's parliament this…

Even though America replaced Britain as the largest economic power since 1870, it was not until 1925 that the US dollar could claim international importance as a result of the steps the US took to stabilize their financial system by…

Anti-virus software vendor, Kaspersky Lab says that the number of malicious programmes targeting mobile devices has more than doubled between August 2009 and December 2010. Records of Kaspersky Lab’s virus database for 2010 posted on their…

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül has announced today March 23, 2011 that the country is eyeing a $30 billion trade investment in Africa in the next few years, Turkish news agency Anatolia reports. Turkey's trade with African countries was…

Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress famed for her beauty, her jet-set lifestyle, her charitable endeavors and her many marriages, has died, her publicist told CNN Wednesday. She was 79. Taylor died "peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai…