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Actress Jemima Kirke poses topless while eight months pregnant.

Laws criminalising same-sex relationships are suspended in Malawi pending a decision on whether to overturn the ban, the justice minister says.

The attorney general vows to urgently apply for a new inquest for Hillsborough victim Kevin Williams after learning his mother has cancer.

Sri Lankans in the capital, Colombo, protest at the government's bid to impeach the chief justice, a move seen as stifling the courts' autonomy.

This week on "Rehab with Dr. Drew," the patients' families came to visit, but did it do more harm than good? Drewbee admitted that he wasn't interested in treatment anymore, causing his mother to break down into hysteric...

The findings should add weight to public policies that reduce the amount of food kids eat from restaurants and fast-food joints.

If you’ve ever dreamed of buying your very own private island, we have some great news: America's cheapest private island is now for sale. Nay Pond Island located in Milan, N.H. is currently listed at $119,900, ac...

Obama is the lesser evil compared to Romney, who promised to increase military spending to fight a new Cold War that might turn hot against China, Russia, the forlorn Palestinians and anyone else with whom he can pick a ...

A City stockbroker who conned investors out of millions of pounds to fund his extravagant lifestyle is jailed for 13 years.

Tomorrow is voting day, so here's a recap of my recommendations on California's 11 ballot initiatives. The original post, which contains a bit more detail, is here. Temporary tax hike to benefit schools: YES. State gener...

Chocolate (Photo credit: John Loo) The New England Journal of Medicine published a study two weeks ago showing, amazingly, that eating chocolate might make you smarter.  To be precise, the author, Franz Messe...

An ongoing skid in crude oil markets and the impact of Superstorm Sandy helped drive U.S. gasoline prices down nearly 21 cents a gallon in late October, the latest Lundberg Survey found.

Anna Sadler and and husband Michael started the Twitter handle @njgas earlier this year to communicate to their fellow New Jersey residents cheap gas places they spotted in their travels. But after finding they were only...

Increments of progress after Hurricane Sandy are being overshadowed by new estimates of the storm’s financial cost, struggles to restore power and the discovery of more bodies in flooded communities.

A 45-year-old man becomes the third person to be charged with the murder of six children who died in a house fire in Derby.

Electric power is slowly coming back to New York's neighborhoods and parts of New Jersey, but many residents in the storm-ravaged area are still cold, hungry and looking for answers as they enter their second week post-S...

In the final days of a campaign that has taken the shine off his "golden boy" status, Ryan was going all-in on the Republican ticket's biggest lie: a claim that Obama's policies had somehow endangered the sprawling Jeep ...

With measures to legalize pot leading in Washington and Colorado polls, one of the president's former senior drug policy advisers is predicting the initiatives will incite a war between the feds and the states. "Once the...

One of Argentina's best known film directors and singer-songwriters, Leonardo Favio, has died at the age of 74.

Poll watchers from groups ostensibly targeting voter fraud are headed primarily to minority voting precincts on Election Day, lending support to the argument that their real goal is to suppress the African-American and L...

Barack Obama has inched to a slim advantage in the closing days of the 2012 presidential race, breaking out of a long-running deadlock with Mitt Romney to a 50-47 percent contest in the final-weekend tracking poll by ABC...

Locked in the toughest fight of her congressional career, Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann defended her witch hunt against alleged Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators in the federal government last night during the...