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Cash awards dwarf all other scientific award monies, notably that given to Nobel Prize winners.

Outraged Tunisians will take to the streets Tuesday to protest the treatment of a woman who was allegedly raped by police officers -- and then charged with public indecency when she filed a complaint against them.

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At Paris Fashion Week, Riccardo Tisci’s collection wasn’t his most challenging, but it did have liberating aspects.

A plucky upstart candidate in the Illinois state senate race is the talk of the web after a video of the doctor providing her own diagnosis of the new healthcare mandate in one sentence went viral.

Distorting an interview Ann Romney gave to a Nevada media outlet last week, MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir tried to impugn the mental health of GOP candidate Mitt Romney. 

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House: Officials in Washington turned down requests by diplomats in Libya for more security.

Teens are far less comfortable talking with their parents about sex than their parents are.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has a prescription for controlling soaring costs within the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare system, partly by making consumers pay more of their own medica...

Opposition Georgian Dream coalition has won majority of parliamentary seats, President Mikhail Saakashvili says.

Saleem Khan Rody runs one of the most strategic spots in Afghanistan. He's doing a good job -- and the Taliban are out to stop him

Four young memoirists, including Steven Rinella, author of “Meat Eater,” have largely taken to hunting, they say, for ethical reasons.

Rescue workers search for survivors after two passenger boats collide in Hong Kong's busy waters, leaving at least 36 people dead.

A major search operation is under way near Brisbane after a vintage biplane failed to return from a sightseeing flight.

As the Welsh government prepares to publish its draft budget for next year, talks are already under way with opposition parties to ensure it is approved.

The White House confirms Chinese cyber attack against sensitive nuclear systems. Erin Burnett reports.

Google's stock market value topped that of long-time rival Microsoft for the first time on Monday, capping a decade-long struggle for dominance between leaders of the PC and internet eras of computing.

Rumours of Adele singing the latest Bond theme have been confirmed - but the star says she was initially unsure about the role.

Ret. Gen. James 'Spider' Marks talks to CNN about helmet cam video of an American soldier's firefight in Afghanistan.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson defends Nani but says "particularly foreign players" dive.

Paolo Gabriele, former butler to Pope Benedict XVI, will take the stand in his own trial Tuesday to answer to criminal charges of stealing hundreds of secret papers from the pope's personal apartment and leaking them to ...