Capto Veritas

The Western Australia sky is raining dead birds, in what is becoming a regular, and mysterious event for the region.

Controversial US abortion doctor George Tiller has been shot and killed at a church in his home state of Kansas.

The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 dies at the age of 97 in a care home in the English county of Hampshire.

Hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians displaced in northern Sri Lanka should be resettled quickly, a political leader says.

Car giant General Motors is likely to file for bankruptcy protection later, the biggest industrial failure in US corporate history.

The modern safety net was designed to shrink welfare rolls, but now joblessness, not dependency, is the national scourge.

Administration officials are debating how to toughen their stance against Israeli settlement expansion ahead of a presidential speech in Cairo.

Hospitals planned to lobby against a proposal requiring they provide a “minimum level of charitable care” to keep a tax exemption.

Budget woes have forced the official charged with improving the health system in California prisons and establishing a constitutionally acceptable level of care to scale back his plans.

A suspect was in custody in the killing of George Tiller, a doctor in Wichita, Kan., who had survived a 1993 shooting.