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When Krysta Rodriguez and now-boyfriend Peter Westervelt met on the set of the upcoming "My Bakery in Brooklyn," there wasn’t much time to take things slow. Rodriguez had just been diagnosed with breast cancer, and Wes...

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NetJets' 2,800 pilots just dusted Warren Buffett. After three long years of sometimes acrimonious contract talks, with the Berkshire Hathaway-owned fractional jet ownership company, the pilots have hammered out a new fiv...

In the more than 200 years since the US declared independence from the English in 1776, the uniforms of those serving in the US Army have changed drastically.  Over the years, as the nation grew, uniforms too have evol...

New Zealand 'Pastafarians' approved to conduct marriages as officials grapple with odd group

China accused the U.S. Saturday of a serious military provocation following the flight of an American B-52 strategic bomber over China's disputed territory in the South China Sea.

A successful perfume tells its own story. [When I refer to 'success', I intend that someone / something reaches its goal, its aspiration; it's not my custom to perceive success by popularity, money, visibility.] We all e...

Smog in China's capital Beijing climbed back into the unhealthy range on Saturday as the second pollution red alert of the month went into effect. …

President Obama on Friday granted Christmastime commutations to a record 95 federal prisoners -- including 40 who had been serving life sentences, mostly for crack and cocaine crimes. Almost all of those being freed are ...

Distractify hooked a bunch of kids up to a lie detector test to see if they made the naughty or nice list this Christmas.

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama met privately with the families of all 14 people killed in the Dec. 2 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, The New York Times reports. "Even as we are vigilant about ...

An Afghan civil society leader says hundreds of men marched through a central provincial capital to call for the reinstatement of their woman governor, who was reappointed last week. …

Nigeria: Soldiers sentenced to death for mutiny given reprieves, now get 10 years' jail

AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File In a surprise move, Volkswagen said on Thursday that it has retained attorney Kenneth Feinberg to help administer a "program" that will offer settlements to claims related to its diesel-cheat...

Pentagon chief: US strike that killed Iraqi soldiers seems to be 'mistake' involving 2 sides

Bolivian legislation allowing children as young as 10 to work has created a rift between those who support it as Andean tradition and others who condemn it as exploitation.

At least three people were killed and seven others injured after a car bomb exploded Saturday in the Somali capital Mogadishu, according to reports. Police reportedly said that the death toll from the explosion, which wa...

Swiss prosecutors say they have opened a criminal investigation against a senior member of a Muslim advocacy group over a video he made, allegedly for propaganda purposes, of a trip to Syria. …

Rwandans vote yes for amendment to the constitution to allow President Kagame to contest further elections after 2017.

Prime minister backs out of latest round in war of words which saw Putin resort to jibes about the US and Islam.

An unlikely and dangerous stowaway slithered its way into a New Jersey-bound container ship this week.

Turkish media reports that 18 died and 14 were rescued after boat capsized in the Aegean Sea, between Turkey and Greece.