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Police: Victim died in the hospital, but doctors saved babyA pregnant 17-year-old girl was fatally shot on Christmas evening in Dolton, but doctors were able to save her baby, authorities said today.     

French photographer Romain Veillon, 30, has spent the last two years exploring abandoned facilities in Europe. One striking set takes us into the century-old control room of Budapest's Kelenföld Power Plant. Built in ...

There are some great optical illusions posted on YouTube, but we have to say that this is one of the best. YouTube user brusspup has created a picture of a cartoon T-Rex that seems to follow you around the room with its ...

ISLAMABAD -- An American development consultant abducted by Al Qaeda in Pakistan more than two years ago has urged President Obama to help secure his freedom in an impassioned video message released by the group.    �...

John Kerry, Secretary of State, and Snoop Lion (née Dogg), Tha Doggfather, recently met at a black tie party to honor the Kennedy Center honorees. Commence smooth fist bump.     

It's not just dying technologies that prove an unnecessary drain on our wallets. How to shop smarter in the year ahead.

Once considered among the most parochial of cities, Boston is becoming a gateway to the world.     

It has already been much speculated that Samsung is to release several new tablets in the new year - this much is fairly obvious. However, now we have proof, of sorts, that an 8.4-inch device is imminent. A approval post...

After acquiring Linksys from Cisco, Belkin changed only one element of the EA-series industrial design with the EA6900: The company added adjustable/upgradeable antennas. That design change doesn't seem to have had the p...

SYDNEY (AP) -- A ship that has been trapped in thick Antarctic ice since Christmas Eve was nearing rescue on Friday, after a Chinese icebreaker named the Snow Dragon drew close to the icebound vessel.     

CAIRO -- Just a day after Egypt's military-backed government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, a more aggressive crackdown was already emerging Thursday, as the authorities announced dozens of arrests ac...

As violence escalates in Baghdad, a Shia armed group claims responsibility for rocket attack on Iranian dissidents.

Over the last decade, the number of patients who are discharged alive from end-of-life hospice care has risen dramatically, a Post investigation has found. This has happened in part because hospice companies are recruiti...

Their Christmas Day did not go as planned.

In fresh round of violence, Palestinians launch two rockets, prompting Israeli military to strike Hamas training camps.

2014 could be a landmark year for an amazing medical technology: human organs built by 3D printers. San Diego biotech firm Organovo promises that its "bioprinting" technology will successfully print a human liver by the ...

What led early humans to begin cultivating grain some 10,000 years ago? It was beer — not bread — a growing body of research shows.   Archaeologists have long hinted that Neolithic, or Stone Age, people first began ...

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Jesse Livermore: Successful Investors Are Constantly Fighting Two Deep-Seated Human Instincts  (T...

It's almost 2014, and we have some pretty impressive gadgets to show for it: The iPad, electric cars, even a smart watch. But we're still waiting on some predictions from the 1920s, like an atmosphere scientifically kept...

As the new Mac Pro trickles out into people’s hands, lucky owners of the world’s most high tech trash can have started playing with the machine to see what it can do. Over at Other World Computing, they figured that�...

We've reviewed a year's worth of coverage and data to put together this list of our favorite predictions for the forces that will shape mobile in 2014. Mobile is a sprawling ecosystem that intersects with virtually every...

Shares in a little-known tech firm are up more than 75% in pre-market trading this morning after it announced it was preparing to launch a beta version of its Bitcoin trading platform.  Pennsylvania-based WPCS says it r...