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No. 17 Nebraska beats Iowa 13-7 to lock up spot in Big Ten championship game

As the week draws to a close, the sensibilities and rigor of a working week die with it—meaning that it's time for Mario Balotelli Watch to come out once more. One of the more ridiculous characters in world foo...

The writer's father had a deep connection to Notre Dame football, starting a family tradition, despite not attending the college, that continues today.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The father of Halle Berry's daughter is headed to court after he was arrested following a fistfight with her fiancé outside the Oscar winning actress' Los Angeles home on Thanksgiving, police s...

Scientists: Could resurrect Galapagos tortoise species made extinct by Lonesome George's death

BEIJING -- In the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged edges. This is the home of the duck farmer ...

Saturday's Powerball jackpot grows to estimated $325 million, fourth-largest in game's history

NEW YORK -- The giant spire that will top 1 World Trade Center is making its way to Manhattan. The spire is divided into 18 sections that weigh between 5 tons and more than 67 tons. Eight of the sections are being transp...

Now that I've recovered from the tryptophan-induced haze, I'm ready to answer a question from the mailbox before dozing off again. What's the best anti-malware scanner for Android devices? I have both an Android smartpho...

An Arab-Israeli has been arrested in connection with this week's bus bombing in Tel Aviv, which wounded 24. Israeli police say the suspect took orders from Hamas.

Washington Wizards center Nene was sitting on a folding chair with ice on his right knee and left thighnear the end of practice this afternoon at Verizon Center. He gingerly walked up the stairs outside into the hallway ...

Early in the season, Robert Griffin III was taking the NFL by storm, with good reason. Then, talk shifted to Andrew Luck for a while. But now, after two near-perfect games, it's all about RGIII again... and dee throws li...

New York Giants safety Kenny Phillips said Friday he won his appeal to have his $30,000 unnecessary roughness fine from September overturned.

It's been said that there's nothing finer than a 49er, so if you count yourself as part of the Niner faithful, then you would love to meet the men that don the red and gold each week.   But if you could only hang out ...

Let's take a break from Black Friday and the crumbling of American society. Instead, let's look at an image of a singer Photoshopped so that she appears topless. The singer in question is Rihanna, whose most recent album...

A few years ago, James Mollison began taking photos of children around the world and their rooms. "I soon realized that my own experience of having a 'bedroom' simply doesn't apply to so many kids," he recalls in his boo...

Photographs of an elderly couple's house in the middle of a newly constructed road go viral on the internet.

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A Chinese investor is hoping to profit from turmoil in South Africa's mining industry, CNN's Nkepile Mabuse reports.

Microsoft, a company destined to be a massive retailer, actually has better deals online than Dell and H-P, according to John C. Dvorak, who has the rundown on computer makers’ offers.

Mobile payment volume around the world on Thanksgiving increased by 173% compared to last year, according to new data from eBay's PayPal division. GSI, like PayPal a unit of eBay that helps large retailers sell online, s...

As we enter the latter stages of the fantasy football regular season, your team is either in the playoffs, in the hunt or totally out of it. Either way, it's still always nice to get another positive in the win column, w...