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It is an odd sight: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wearing a jacket and tie, but no shoes. Then again, if you have not stepped outside Ecuador's London embassy for a year, shoes are largely pointless. In an intervie...

My father-in-law arrived in Ocala right after lunchtime yesterday. He was greeted with lots of whimpers and wiggles from Sadie who absolutely adores him. (They spent 10 days together when we visited Machu Picchu and the ...

Um, yeah, so it's Father's Day. Did you forget dear old Dad? If you did, here's a quick, last minute way to save face. Print out this simple card (those flowery ones at the store aren't the manliest offerings ever anyway...

At least one part of the labor force has expanded significantly since the recession hit: the low-wage part, made up of burger flippers, home health...

A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the wild and captured in ...

Don't call it a "campaign" for president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But the contenders are lining up and alliances are quietly being sealed.

Data to be released includes housing starts and leading economic indicators in the United States, as well as earnings from FedEx and Carnival.

Maybe the biggest criticism of this year's U.S. Open is the length of the par-3s. And Hunter Mahan's frustration was caught by NBC cameras after he was forced to use a driver on the third hole. After his tee shot on the ...

Not surprisingly, President Obama's weekly address focused on Father's Day -- but he also spoke candidly about his own father that he barely knew. "I want to take a moment to talk about the most important job many of us ...

China's shadow banking system is out of control and under mounting stress as borrowers struggle to roll over short-term debts, Fitch Ratings has warned. The agency said the scale of credit was so extreme that the country...

Using tactics that included luring diplomats into fake internet cafes, The Guardian reports that British intelligence spied on major world leaders during the 2009 G20 summit in London. The revelation is based on document...

How far into the future should governments budget? Economic theory has a clear and rigid answer. But it's not one economists like to give -- for two reasons.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- With evacuees anxious to return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history.

Nigella Lawson was apparently assaulted by her husband Charles Saatchi during a row at a restaurant during which he grabbed her by the throat. In photographs published in a Sunday newspaper, the television chef appears t...

A designer named Peng Zhong feels so strongly opposed to PRISM, the NSA's domestic spying program, that he created a site to educate people on how to "opt out" of it. According to the original report that brought PRISM t...

John Bush has been charged with child abduction after allegedly disappearing with 14-year-old Lorna Vickerage.

China's shadow banking system is out of control and under mounting stress as borrowers struggle to roll over short-term debts, Fitch Ratings has warned. The agency said the scale of credit was so extreme that the country...

Robert Irwin's installation "Scrim Veil -- Black Rectangle -- Natural Light," last seen on the Whitney Museum's fourth floor in 1977, will be back through Sept. 1.

The massive landslide happened in one of the biggest open-pit mines in the world.

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The Internet has plenty of dark corners, but one of the darkest is surely the growing number of sites that traffic in child pornography. Google, which has no interest in surfacing any of these sites and images, has long ...

A team of archaeologists from Australia has discovered an ancient city that had been buried under the jungles of Cambodia for more than 1,000 years. The 1,200-year-old city, known as Mahendraparvata, was uncovered in the...