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Two men are charged with the murder of a teenager who was shot in Battersea last month.

Americans are crazy about their pizza: They eat it an average of 3.9 times a month, according to a new survey from Zagat. In celebration of National Pizza Month, the editors at Zagat shared the best pizza joints in 10 bi...

iPhone 5S users are finding their mobile devices freezing up and displaying something very familiar to haters of Microsoft-driven devices.

Bluetooth speakers are spilling out of every corner of every manufacturer at the moment and we're seeing swathes of new names surfacing too. Divoom is one of those names that you might not immediately familiar with, and ...

I saw the picture the way we see so many things on Facebook - a quick glance, a quick judgment. Blink. It was a picture of a little boy, seen from the back, standing on the fence outside the National Zoo, under a sign th...

We know you've had a busy week, and that sometimes you don't have the time to read all of our tech tips and tricks. But since we love our readers so much, we want to make sure that they're well informed So if you missed ...

4chan, that bizarre cesspit of the Internet that most people know to avoid, recently celebrated its 10th birthday. And with the rise of the website came the rise of the Chan -- a pantheon of 20 or so young women who gain...

Is Twitter ruining America by making it easy for politicians to create a bubble in which they only communicate with fans? Actually, the transparency and lack of filters has as many positive aspects as it does negative on...

Two weeks of sliced budgets and suspensions following Congressional gridlock have been a disastrous setback to a variety of American science programs, wasting millions of dollars and months if not years of research.

The New York City Police Department sent spies to infiltrate Islamic youth groups and mosques, but also deployed them to such organizations as Occupy Wall Street and Critical Mass, the people who advocate for the rights ...

"I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally."--Zelda Fitzgerald Imagine yourself in my shoes. You know that the previous perfume created by Majda Bekkali was named after novel Mon Nom Est Rouge (My ...

Bruce Willis hosted this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" and opened by saying it had been a while since he was last on the NBC stage. "The last time I hosted the show was back in 1989 and if you had told me back then tha...

Swansea researchers find beauty in the art of science

With Chicago Ideas Week starting Monday, two experts weigh in on the state of Chicago's technology scene.

BEIJING (AP) -- China has pledged to shut down at least 2,000 small coal mines by the end of 2015 as it tries to improve safety standards in its deadly industry.     

Food stamp recipients should be able to use their debit-style cards in grocery stores on Sunday, now that vendor Xerox Corp. has restored service after a system outage that affected…

Automakers including Nissan, GM and Mercedes have done thousands of miles of successful tests, hoping to sell self-driving vehicles by 2020. But who would be liable in a crash?The Nissan Leaf is cruising at 35 mph when a...

Futures markets have just opened, and there's still no deal in DC. S&P futures are off about 15 points. This decline is about 0.8%. Here's a chart via Alex Marion: The selloff comes after two big up dates for markets on ...

Diaper duty doesn't have to be so dangerous anymore. The Ubbi Diaper Pail is about as high-tech as it gets when it comes to the dirty job of changing your baby's diaper Made out of powder-coated steel, the Ubbi stands ou...

BEIRUT (AP) -- International Committee of the Red Cross says 7 of its workers kidnapped in northern Syria.     

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Massachusetts state police say four children were injured when their car rolled over on Interstate 291 in Springfield in a drunken driving crash.     

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