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At this year's BAFTAs—the last red carpet before the Oscars—leading ladies like Lupita Nyong'o, Cate Blanchett, Amy Adams, and more dress to impress. See our favorites.

Google has reached a legal settlement with European antitrust regulators that will change the way it displays shopping ads. The Europeans believe the deal will lessen Google's dominance of online advertising and improve ...

The reaction was slow in coming, but financial markets and corporate bosses have been jolted awake to China's relentless growth decline and are scrambling to cope with wrenching changes in…

As our families grow, so do our device charging needs. Where we just used to need 2 USB ports to charge our iPhones, we now have iPads, cameras, Bluetooth speakers, portable flashlight/batteries and even a few Android de...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Niger says it has extradited a former high-ranking intelligence official under Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi who was "plotting against the Libyan state."     

Huge Philippine charity walk for Typhoon Haiyan survivors breaks 2 Guinness records     

Engineers work through the night to restore power to thousands of homes cut off after the storms.

The family of a Florida teen shot dead by Michael Dunn leave court in tears after a mistrial is declared on first-degree murder.

A Denmark zoo says that it has no plans to kill one of its healthy male giraffes after its European governing body decided not to send the zoo a female giraffe for the purposes of breeding. 

A new analysis of America's prison demographics has revealed for-profit prisons jail minorities even more disproportionately than publicly operated prisons. For-profit prisons — like those operated by Corrections Corpo...

Team Hill defeated Team Webber, 142-136, in the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday, and some of the league's most talented young stars put on a fantastic show during the game. The future NBA superstars all produced at vary...

mendax points out a story at the NY Times about evidence that the Australian Signals Directorate notified the NSA in 2013 that it was spying on discussions between Indonesia and an American law firm. The information gath...

He burned his hands trying to free his family.     

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Rescue services in South Africa are trying to reach more than 200 illegal miners reported trapped underground in an abandoned gold shaft in a suburb just east of Johannesburg, an emergency services spokesman said on Sund...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are determined to cast an election-year spotlight on Republican opposition to raising the minimum wage and overhauling immigration laws. To try to accomplish that in the GOP-controlled ...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday called on House Republicans to pass immigration reform and said that the GOP needs to pass immigration reform to fulfill any hopes of winning a national election. "States like mine, over...

If two minds are better than one, what could thousands of minds accomplish? The possibilities are endless--if researchers can learn to effectively harness and utilize all that knowledge.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire nonprofit is launching a new private loan consolidation program for students.     

South Korean regulators Sunday suspended some operations of three credit card firms as punishment for the unprecedented theft of financial data on more than 20 million people.