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We humans like to think of ourselves as an evolved species. We've eradicated smallpox. We've been to the moon and back. We figured out a way to put peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. So why is it that we're still s...

Officer Bobby White of the Gainesville Police Department in Florida has gained some recognition for being a strong enforcer—of fun! When dispatched to answer a noise-complaint call, he found that the reported problem w...

It was a win for Bill Cosby in court on Thursday.

Oilfield service provider Schlumberger reports heavy losses and 10,000 job cuts amid the ongoing slump in the price of crude.

The radioactive poison that killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was delivered in the most civilized of circumstances -- at tea time, as he sipped green tea with lemon and honey with two former spy colleagues at...

The case was described by the Supreme Court as an example of the megalomaniac behavior of India's rich

An explosion in Egypt killed six people, including three police officers and a civilian who was passing by, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.

Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters BP's chief executive Bob Dudley has warned that the current crisis in oil prices is as bad as the one the market experienced in 1985 and 1986, when crude prices capped a six-year-long struggle by...

"The Pill" -- two words synonymous with birth control. But more than 50 years after oral contraceptives became commonplace, they remain an option only available to women.

Mariah Carey and boyfriend James Packer are engaged after less than a year together.

Nearly 4,000 Brazilian babies have been born with microcephaly since October

The glittering event takes place Saturday at WestWorld in Scottsdale.          

REUTERS/Mike Blake In 2014, Google paid Apple $1 billion just to keep its search engine as the default on the iPhone, Bloomberg reports. That number comes from the ongoing Google/Oracle legal battle, in which several acc...

ISTANBUL — Famous images showing an aide to Turkey’s prime minister kicking a protester in the wake of a national tragedy are slowly vanishing from the internet in Turkey. The photographs were taken after a fire kill...

A person familiar with the decision says the Cavaliers have fired coach David Blatt, who led the team to the NBA Finals last season. Blatt was dismissed Friday, said the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condit...

A trial that was supposed to help settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from General Motors' faulty ignition switches was headed for a premature dismissal Friday, a day after the judge raised questions about the truthfuln...

Samsung has long subscribed to the “If you can’t beat ’em, release a load of ads making fun of them” strategy when it comes to smartphone rival Apple. In its latest ad, the South Korean tech company keeps this tr...

As he walked on a beach in the western Prince William Sound town of Whittier, seabird biologist David Irons was startled when he saw hundreds of white lumps on the black rock beach.

If the universe is so full of the building blocks for life as we know it, why haven't we found any? Because all the aliens are extinct, a new paper proposes.

China's Food and Drug Administration says it found opium poppies used as illegal seasoning in 35 restaurants across the country, including a popular Beijing hot pot chain. …

Vietnam's prime minister still retains a slim chance of challenging his rival, the ruling communist party chief, for the top job, according to a new interpretation of complicated rules disclosed at the start of a party c...

The Japanese Cabinet approved Friday the lifting of sanctions on Iran, following the recent completion of a landmark deal to try to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. …