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WASHINGTON – U.S. spy agencies spent $47.5 billion in fiscal year 2008, $4 billion more than in the previous budget year, according to National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. Steven Aftergood, who tracks intelligence spending for the Project on Government Secrecy, called the increase “big news.” “A multibillion budget increase would …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A British couple convicted of having sex on a beach in Dubai have appealed the verdict. Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors were sentenced Thursday to three months in prison, a fine of $272 and deportation from Dubai. The two were detained in July and charged …

LONDON – The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archaeologists said Monday. Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill said the content of graves scattered around …