Republican Sen. John Cornyn, the head of his party's Senate campaign arm, said Friday he will not vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, announcing with "regret and some sadness" that he will vote against President Barack Obama's nominee to

President Obama stopped short of an apology to Sgt. James Crowley for saying he "acted stupidly" for arresting black Harvard scholar Henry Lewis Gates Jr., but said he should have chosen his words more carefully.

A majority of Americans now support the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, but an even larger majority think high court nominees will say whatever it takes to get confirmed.

Using money as bait, President Barack Obama challenged school districts Friday to raise their academic standards, improve teacher quality and allow more innovation if they want a chance at roughly $5 billion in new grants.

Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is teaching a junior-level course at Texas Tech called Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spoke after returning from a visit to India and Thailand, says the money has been transferred directly to the Palestinian Authority.

Federal prosecutors told a court Friday they no longer plan to hold Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan, as a wartime prisoner, but instead will begin a criminal investigation.

The legislative package of 31 bills was similar to the deal announced earlier this week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders from both parties

The de facto government, led by Roberto Micheletti, has threatened to arrest Zelaya if he made such an attempt

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was more cautious in her language Friday, but she hinted that a renewed Israel-Syria peace track was being explored

Prentice Hall has published the fourth edition of The Official Ubuntu Book, covering the latest Ubuntu 9.04 release. As with previous versions, the fourth edition aims to bring new users up to speed on the popular Linux distro, from installation

Canonical has released open source code for the Launchpad software development and collaboration platform that it provides for Ubuntu application development. Based on the Bazaar version control system, Launchpad offers features for collaborative application development, bug tracking, translations, and more,

Planners have given the green light for a new low-carbon community to be built in Portland in Dorset.

The US Department of Defense has ordered 62 M777 howitzers from BAE Systems in a deal worth $117m (£71m).

Wales's leading renewable business body BWEA Cymru has expressed concern over a lack of progress in developing wind farms in Wales.

EDF Energy has inked a deal with British Salt to acquire a site to build a new fast cycle underground gas storage facility in Cheshire.

Alstom Transport has won a contract worth around €110m to supply 48 metro cars for the Brasilia Metro network in Brazil, as well as to modernise its signalling system.

A fully functioning £2m micro-brewery is to be built at Nottingham University to allow academics to research ways to reduce the amount of energy required in the brewing process.

The government views science and engineering advice as 'a peripheral policy concern', according to a report by the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills (IUSS) committee.

Scientists at Leeds University are planning to extract chemical compounds from different species of seaweed from around the Shetland Islands and use them to develop a range of hair dyes.