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Ever since it exploded on April 20, 2010 — killing 11 crew members — BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig has been a rotting carcass submerged in the Gulf of Mexico. In related news, the Coast Guard announced ton...

New data shows that since Google launched its iOS mapping application, there has been a 30 percent bump in people upgrading their devices to Apple's newest mobile operating system. [Read more]

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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A satellite image shows the Great Blue Hole, an almost perfectly circular sinkhole off the coast of Belize, as it appears from 400 miles up.

This hasn't been the best week for Tim Tebow. His Jets team was eliminated from playoff contention after suffering a humiliating loss on Monday Night Football, he was leapfrogged on the depth chart by third-stringer Greg...

Magazine known for its high-quality images says it's concerned about new photo ownership policy and may abandon the photo-sharing app entirely. [Read more]

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The extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon was still living in North China 3,000 years ago, scientists say.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc has struck a deal to sell Vizio televisions, bringing one of the most popular and aggressively priced U.S. TV brands to the world's largest consumer electronics retailer's aisles late...

A man was caught on camera swimming in a national park in Australia when a crocodile lunged at him into the water from a rock. He appeared unharmed by the surprise encounter.

Instagram has responded to the backlash and assures users it won't tell their photos or place them in ads.

Instagram -- which has gone from plucky photo-sharing startup to cog in the giant Internet machine that is Facebook -- just had one of the...

William Bryan Jennings, the banker whose assault and hate-crime charges over a dispute with a New York cab driver were dropped, was fired by Morgan Stanley and is now reportedly trying to get deferred compensation from h...

How have the U.S. middle classes even vaguely been able to sustain their living standards? Answer: by taking on unpayable debt that chokes the financial system and throttles economic growth. It's an appalling situation a...

Russia's Parliament gives key support to a ban on adoptions by Americans, in a retaliatory move against US rights legislation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of an official inquiry into the fatal attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, did not find Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responsible for security lapses even as they outlined ...

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A widely-seen video shows an eagle snatching a baby from a Canadian park; is it real?

Ke$ha understands why people might not want to listen to “Die Young” right now. In response to reports that the song’s radio airplay has declined in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootin...