Will Yemen rebels accept a fresh cease-fire plan?Yemen's government – under pressure from the US to focus on Al Qaeda-linked groups operating within its borders – is stepping up efforts to solve a separate pressing issue: five years' worth of fighting with Shiite rebels.

Telegraph Chelsea gardener: 'For my sons to lose their mother so young seems grossly unfair.'Andy Sturgeon, the designer of this year's Telegraph Chelsea garden, speaks movingly about the sudden death of his partner, and bringing up their three sons alone.

Burke in tight legislative race in ChicagoIncumbent state legislators fought to win the right to run again in a marathon campaign that will end in the November general election, but ballots were still being counted throughout the Chicago area Tuesday night in many contested races. One of the tightest races showed veteran Rep. Dan Burke, the brother of Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, trying desperately to hold off challenger Rudy Lozano Jr., the ...