Zoran Pokusevski, pictured, was shocked when only five British applicants applied for jobs in his new Salford deli. Three of the Britons failed to show up for their interview.

Julia Mullins, 54, from Newport, south Wales, said she was outraged to receive the letter asking her husband Stuart to undergo medical tests, two months after he died from cancer aged 53.

The New Year’s Eve celebrations have officially begun as Fiji and New Zealand welcomed 2015 in style with firework displays that set the bar high for the rest of the world.

Pauline Cafferkey, 39, has agreed to be treated in London with an experimental anti-viral drug and is being transfused with blood plasma from a patient who has survived the killer disease.

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility. The transfer of the five men […]

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to hire a chief of laboratory safety, a new post that has taken on more urgency after a CDC scientist was possibly exposed to Ebola in a laboratory last week. Creating a new high-level safety position was a key recommendation […]

MIAMI (AP) — Five men who were held for a dozen years without charge at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement, the U.S. government announced.

New state laws taking effect Thursday give livestock in California more living room, approve direct-to-consumer wine shipments in Massachusetts and levy the ultimate punishment on wannabe teen drivers in Nevada by denying them licenses if they skip too much school.

Apple capped off a strong comeback year with a very merry Christmas. The iPhone 6 and other Apple smartphones and tablets accounted for 51.3 percent of all such devices activated in the week through December 25, according to data released Monday by app analytics provider Flurry. Christmas Day is an annual highpoint for new gadgets […]

Oil headed for the biggest annual decline since the 2008 global financial crisis as U.S. producers and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ceded no ground in their battle for market share …