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Doctors used an fMRI to communicate with man thought to be vegetative for 12 years.

Will Barnet, a printmaker and painter known for elegantly stylized portraits and classically composed visions of beautiful women and children, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 101. Read More... More on Ob...

Waffle House CEO Rogers says sexual harassment charges are false, 'blackmail'

DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado man was charged on Tuesday in federal court with threatening to kill U.S. President Barack Obama during an October campaign visit, and court documents showed that he told investigators that ...

Rock band The Killers stopped their gig in Manchester on Tuesday night after just five songs, with lead singer Brandon Flowers saying he had lost his voice.

At the heart of an investigation involving former Gen. David H. Petraeus is Jill Kelley, who functioned as a kind of social liaison between the military and civilian elite.

A security camera has captured the moment a small plane skidded off a runway and crashed through a boundary fence at Sao Paulo's Congohas airport on Sunday

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Ryan rejects the notion that his ideas lost. Indeed, he still claims he's promoting "popular ideas." And he says of the Republican ticket: "It was a well-run campaign. We made this campaign about big ideas and big issues...

ROCKAWAY PARK, New York (Reuters) - Noreen Ellis begged the American Red Cross for help a few days after Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast.

Small plane crashes into Jackson, Miss., neighborhood; 3 aboard killed, authorities say

GungHo Online Entertainment’s free-to-play Puzzle and Dragons has finally touched down in North America, the original mobile match puzzle RPG arriving stateside on iOS late to the party in the face of similar titl...

The Communist party are about to choose their new leader - but it's a process many ordinary Chinese feel excluded from.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA director David Petraeus led to his resignation, contained substantial classified information that should have been stored under m...

During a White House press conference on Wednesday, President Obama took a few minutes to push back on a burgeoning media narrative. ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl asked the president about the likely nomination of UN a...

The US Federal Reserve may launch a new bond-buying stimulus programme at the end of the year, released minutes reveal.

Questions swirl about the former spy chief's relationship with Paula Broadwell as Congress seeks answers on the Benghazi attack.

DETROIT -- Free agent outfielder Torii Hunter has agreed to a two-year deal with Detroit, giving the Tigers a capable corner outfielder coming off an impressive season at age 37. A person with knowledge of the negotiatio...

George Washington University is no longer ranked No. 51 on U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Colleges list, due to the revelation that the Washington, D.C. school, had been submitting faulty data to the magazine for...

From EarthTechling's Beth Buczynski: For the past year, the Presidential election has dominated the American media and, arguably, public consciousness. Now that the election is behind us, many are anxious to start addres...

A measure that would make New York driver's licenses black and white has some lawmakers seeing red. Not only would the licenses be less colorful and possibly less secure, they would also cost $38 million more to produce,...