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Tennis legends help Josh Elliott punk "GMA" anchor months after the tables were turned.

Canadian adventurer Wade Davis wins this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, with his book Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest.

A man is found guilty of the kidnap and murder of his ex-wife from Peterborough, whose body was found in a field in Poland.

In an interview with CNN, Israeli President Shimon Peres vows to stop rockets from Gaza militants by any means possible.

“All baggers up front.” I can still hear his voice. It was hulking and no-nonsense, like Steve McQueen had hijacked the store intercom. His name was Richard. But we called him by his abridged name (Just never...

The fraud that General David Petraeus perpetrated on America started many years before the general seduced Paula Broadwell, a lower ranking officer 20 years his junior, after meeting her on a campus visit to Harvard. Rea...

The number of women living with lung cancer in the UK is set to rise significantly faster than the number of men with the disease over the next 30 years, experts say.

Stealing cash from smartphones at the click of a button

Pennsylvania election officials say they are not planning to investigate the extraordinary turnout and vote totals that President Obama garnered from parts of Philadelphia last Tuesday.

F.B.I. agents recognized the stakes of any investigation tied to David H. Petraeus, the C.I.A. director who resigned Friday, but were wary of exposing a private affair with no criminal or security implications.

A BBC internal inquiry has concluded that there had been 'unacceptable' editorial failings involved in the broadcast Two BBC executives involved with the Newsnight broadcast that wrongly linked a "senior Conservative" â...

When Hurricane Sandy cut power to a Newark facility, clicking open the locks, male inmates threatened female inmates and in some cases escaped, witnesses said.

While Windows Phone 8 handsets finally reaching customers is an important step, there was actually a bigger step taken today. Two of Zynga's leading applications, Words with Friends and Draw Something, are now available ...

I have to say that today's New York Times piece about the FBI's investigation of David Petraeus's affair with Paula Broadwell is pretty fascinating. Apparently it all began with Jill Kelly, a friend of the Petraeus famil...

English: NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Conventional wisdom says always pay tax later. That means delaying income into January when you can. But climbing rates and uncertainty cut t...

Private security company had job of patrolling perimeter when royal palace intruder made off with set of keys It is certainly not how they used to treat criminals at the Tower of London where grisly executions have made ...

Sweet dreams on an airplane generally are reserved for first class passengers. And United Airlines is sweetening that dreamy proposition for their premier passengers with a new turn-down service on long-haul internationa...

The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, which has a long history of using techniques like exploding phones and assassins in wigs to take out Israel's enemies, tried and failed to kill Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with a...

After a day at work that began 5 a.m. Saturday, Peggy Ray was on her way to her daughter's soccer game when she witnessed a car fly through the air and crash into a drainage ditch. So she leaped from her car and ran to h...

The Coalition for Peace Action held a fundraiser, afternoon conference at Princeton, NJ yesterday. Speakers were, in order, Juan Cole, Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky. i went, took notes and afterwards, had a chance to meet...

Attorney General Eric Holder was notified in late summer that then-CIA Director David Petraeus' name had surfaced in the FBI probe that ultimately uncovered his affair, raising questions about whether Holder would have -...

Sinema was declared the winner today by a margin of 6,000 votes.