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LONDON – Rescue crews worked Monday to save dolphins that became stranded in a river in southwest England. Rescuers believe a pod of about 15 dolphins swam up the Percuil River in Cornwall and were beached, and that other dolphins responded to their distress cries. The Coastguard said the arrival …

Talk about a betting man. A terminally ill British man has collected nearly $10,000 after betting he could beat the odds and stay alive, it is reported. According to the U.K.’s Sun newspaper, Jon Matthews, 58, bet that he could beat out the cancer doctors say usually kills within months. …

LONDON – Author Salman Rushdie slipped into Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to receive a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II that had angered many parts of the Muslim world when the honor was announced last year. In a break with normal procedure, the palace did not announce ahead of time that …