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Pictures from a camera mounted on the front of a derailed freight train show that the train went off the tracks after it struck a garbage truck that crossed the tracks while the train's horn was blasting warnings.

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada is banning nearly all exports to and imports from Iran.

Squash, baseball/softball and wrestling remain on the shortlist for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games.

Stacy Keibler got social media sites swirling this week after a photo of her flashing her pink G-string hit the web. George Clooney's other-half suffered the embarrassing wardrobe malfunction while at the Monaco Grand Pr...

Museums house spectacular historical artifacts and works of art. But many museum buildings are pretty spectacular in their own right. A jury of experts from buildings database Emporis selected the world's most impressive...

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook turned to the seemingly more hospitable stage of the All Things Digital technology conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, one week after facing a congressional grilling on the company's tax pra...

Apple's Irish operation has a multi-billion dollar profit - and a tiny tax bill. How does it do it? Eileen Stokes and her family live a basic life, one of 16 Irish Traveller families settled on an established halting sit...

Facing a mounting investigation into her presidential campaign's alleged campaign finance improprieties, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced Wednesday morning that she won't seek reelection in 2014. Here's a quick ...

According to The New York Times, two letters testing positive for ricin were apparently sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control group he founded late last week. At least one police officer investigating the let...

ILOPANGO, El Salvador (AP) -- Young men come around once a week to collect $20 from store owner Carlos Tevez, the "tax" he pays to continue operating his business and to keep his family safe.

Toxic substances were aboard a train that crashed and exploded outside Baltimore, but officials said they were not burning

The Pentagon suffered a black eye yesterday when a classified report detailing Chinese hackers' access to weapons system design information was uncovered by The Washington Post. But the Defense Department says that even ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Democratic legislative leaders on Wednesday called for a delay in tax cuts that were enacted last session, saying it's needed to balance a $6.3 billion, two-year budget without shifting tax increas...

Somebody tell this dog he can't possibly eat every piece of hail. Uploaded by YouTube user Doug Burg on May 29, this video shows "Nemo the Lab playing in the hail storm." The video was taken south of Denver, Colo. in Cas...

The wide array of wireless radio technologies used to get devices online may soon shrink as major players in the chip world start choosing the standards they will support for the internet of things.

The Indonesian carrier's customers can exchange unlimited texts via its service running on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data over the GSM network, doing away with the need for an Internet connection required for OT...

New York's new bike share system is compact and dense. Washington DC's is expansive and sparse. Seoul's is bifurcated. Paris's is comprehensive. The geographic footprint of a city's bike-sharing system can reveal both th...

What is it about Psy? The K-Pop sensation and ambassador of all things Gangnam Style is approaching 400 million YouTube views with his latest thrust-worthy hit, Gentleman, while adding serious won to his bank account wit...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage has the mental capacity to represent himself at his murder trial, but more information is needed about his physical con...

About two dozen protestors staged a rally in front of Tribune Tower Wednesday as part of a "national day of action" to dissuade Tribune Co. from selling its newspapers to brothers Charles and David Koch, conservative bil...

The "Marketplace Fairness Act" is supposed to level the playing field between the traditional brick-and-mortar storefronts of the old economy and the online and catalog sales of the new economy, taking a simple problem a...