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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge Friday loosened the restrictions on John W. Hinckley Jr., allowing the hospitalized presidential assailant to spend seven overnight visits with his parents in Williamsburg, Virginia. Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, had been permitted to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington for outings around the nation's capital. He wanted to make longer trips and travel outside the area to his parents' community in southeastern Virginia. U.S. Distr ...

By Katherine Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair, who faces a rebellious party and a revitalised opposition in the New Year, said on Saturday 2006 would bring tough, critical decisions that would shape Britain's future for generations. In his New Year's message, Blair vowed to press on with controversial reforms to education, pensions and energy policy that could test his author ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - A 25-year-old human rights worker and her parents were freed in the Gaza Strip on Friday by the Palestinian gunmen who kidnapped them two days earlier, British and Palestinian officials said. A previously unknown group calling itself Brigades of the Mujahideen - Jerusalem claimed responsibility and said it freed Kate Burton, her father Hugh and mother Helen, while demanding British and European pressure on Israel. In a video released to media, a masked gu ...

By Katherine Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Britain hailed its cricketing heroes on Saturday, awarding honours to the entire England team that won the Ashes for the first time since 1987 this year. The team that brought the 2012 Olympics to London was also honoured, with a knighthood for bid leader and former track star Sebastian Coe. Police, transport and ambulance workers who aided the victims of ...