The role of Captain Mainwaring will be reprised for the silver screen by Hunger Games actor Toby Jones, while Blake Harrison, of Inbetweeners fame, will take on the role of Pike.

The £229 Voice Controlled Thermostat (pictured) from Bracknell-based Honeywell uses far field voice analysis, which means it can operate with background noise such as a TV or radio.

DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Thousands of swarming bees have left one landscaper dead and another critically injured after the men were stung in southern Arizona.

WASHINGTON (AP) — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with disproportionate falloffs among black and younger voters, a nonpartisan congressional study released Wednesday concluded.

DALLAS — Love, not Ebola, drove Thomas Eric Duncan from his native Liberia.

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A time capsule that had been hidden in the head of a lion statue atop a historical landmark for more than a century yielded one surprise Thursday: a hardcover book.

Authorities allege the teen shot three times before the officer returned fire.

Facebook Inc , which closed its acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Monday, has no near-term plan to make money from the service, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. Zuckerberg, …

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CHESTER, Va. — The Christian preschool teacher heard the news on her car radio: Same-sex marriage is now legal in Virginia. This is it, she thought. The end times. “It could happen today,” Pam Rives said on Tuesday, tidying her lemon-yellow classroom …