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Japan continues to be the world's biggest financial story. The consensus seems to be that the country's extraordinary economic measures are good for both itself and the world. I've detailed previously how Japan's efforts...

It doesn't get more romantic than the designer's lovely design. Click for an close-up, and see more of our sweet Instagram shots in the gallery.

First Period_1, Boston, Krug 2 (Horton, Krejci), 5:28. 2, N.Y. Rangers, Callahan 2, 8:01.

Colombia's main rebel group, the Farc, denies it is moving too slowly to end five decades of conflict, six months after peace talks began.

"Bipartisanship" is when the owners prompt their official lackeys to screw over humanity again. The best we can hope for is a mud wrestling impeachment.

It's pretty clear-cut, so long as one knows what an acrostic is!

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra Univ...

Syrian President Bashar-al Assad gave a hard line interview with Argentina's Clarín newspaper, dismissing international peace efforts and blaming the West for supporting "terrorists" fighting his government. "No state t...

Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday.

Student Andrea Rebello was accidently shot in the head by a police officer while she was being held in a headlock by an intruder.

Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old....

The Telegraph has put together some amateur footage that shows Syrian aircraft dropping bombs on what is said to be the town of Yabroud, located about 49 miles north of Damascus. It's unclear if there were any casualties...

Earlier today we wrote about the intriguing new claim, from computer industry pioneer Ted Nelson, that the inventor of Bitcoin was probably Japanese math professor Shinichi Mochizuki. Mochizuki had made a name for him la...

Sometimes, more medical information is a bad thing. The influential United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends against most women getting genetic screenings for their susceptibility to breast cancer. Why? Be...

We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't cutting it. Why not take ...

Zombie language gets XML, Java support IBM is giving its COBOL environment a cloudy flavour with an update to the ancient venerable and unkillable language....

Charting the growth of the big social networks that aren't Facebook.

Charting the growth of the big social networks that aren't Facebook.

On Friday, Bank Of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank independently published their respective findings on corporate profit margins, which are currently sitting at historic highs. "The debate on S&P 500 net margins ...

It is being reported that Verizon is starting to ship Galaxy S4 units to customers ahead of the scheduled May 23rd release date.

Americans are focusing on the wrong IRS scandal, according to Michael Moore. During an appearance on "Real Time With Bill Maher" earlier this week, the...

Life behind bars is a challenge for prisoners serving time, but they aren't the only ones in maximum security prisons dealing with stress. Corrections officers (CO) responsible for overseeing prisons work in one of the m...