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Last week, for the first time ever, scientists observed visible light emanating from within a black hole with naught more than a 20cm telescope. Forget everything you know -- science is always rewriting itself. The post ...

The standoff is the latest flare up of tensions over federal management of Western lands

It's not negative yet, but China's inflation rate is going the other way. Core inflation slowed to 1.4% in 2015 due to lackluster domestic demand amid a slowing economy, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturd...

Volkswagen's CEO plans to present remedies for fixing diesel engines at EPA meeting

Guzman's lawyers can still file to fight the extradition.

Sylvester Stallone seemed to thank just about everyone during his acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. The "Creed" actor thanked his wife and his kids, Williams Mor...

In the aftermath of David Bowie's death on Sunday, people have found a variety of ways to pay tribute to the music icon. See also: David Bowie sent a sweet and cheeky response to an American fan letter in 1967 Celebritie...

The community of mathematicians of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search found a bug that freezes systems while performing complex workloads on Skylake computers. Intel has confirmed the issue and released a BIOS upda...

ROME – Italy on Monday cheered Ennio Morricone's Golden Globe victory for composing the original score for Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight," which marks the maestro's first original score for a Tarantino pic, an...

Tumult in China triggered the worst opening week for US stocks in history, and now investors have to face what analysts expect will be a weak earnings season

Yaaass, Gaga, yaaass. Lady Gaga beat out Kirsten Dunst in "Fargo," Sarah Hay in "Flesh and Bone," Queen Latifah in "Bessie," and Felicity Huffman in "American Crime Story" for her performance in "American Horror Story:...

North Korean leader Kim takes part in propaganda drive meant to glorify last week's bomb test

While accepting the award for Best Actor in a Television Drama at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, Jon Hamm revealed that he had pitched a very different ending for the show "Mad Men." Hamm told the audience that he had tr...

Spain's Princess Cristina is due to appear in court on fraud charges - the first member of the country's royal family to be put on trial.

The attack, in which the police said five men with a gun separated a father from his daughter and then took turns raping the 18-year-old woman, set off waves of anger and uncertainty in Brownsville.

The most picked apart moment of the Golden Globes wasn't a moving speech, or an uncomfortable joke -- it was a split-second interaction between Leonardo DiCaprio and Lady Gaga as she walked towards the stage to accept ...

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Lucasfilm Warning: There are spoilers for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens!" below. "The Force Awakens" left us with a lot of questions about Rey and her mysterious past. Who are her parents? Is she really Luke's daughter?...

Mexican authorities just released video footage of the raid that led to the capture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on January 8.  Produced by Emma Fierberg Follow BI Video: On Facebook  

Matt Lewin waited for the paralysis to set in. Two anesthesiologists and an emergency-room doctor monitored his vitals while the mivacurium moved through him. Mivacurium paralyzes skeletal muscles the same way a cobra bi...

Irish drugmaker Shire will pay about $32 billion in cash and stock to buy Baxalta and strengthen its position in rare disease treatments. …

Samsung Electronics published a mixed set of preliminary results for Q4 2015 on Friday, indicating that its operating profits likely grew by about 15% to 6.1 trillion won ($5 billion) with sales remaining almost flat at ...