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Tax avoidance schemes, such as the one used by comedian Jimmy Carr, are "completely and utterly immoral", Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee says.

Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater.

Holiday pop-up shop, 3DEA, asks you to use your imagination: If you can think it, you can make it.

A lot has changed since Joan Rivers got into comedy — Mindy Kaling, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman, and loads of other female comics have made it clear that women are funny — but she remembers the days when ...

Big, old trees provide irreplaceable habitat for many animals.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ripped House Republicans for scheduling a five-day break amid the “fiscal cliff” debate, asking why the chamber is not in session “trying to build confidence” an...

The uprising of women in the Arab world

Those seeking a natural alternative to Viagra have long promoted the Aztec notion that chocolate is an aphrodisiac. Until now, most studies have indicated that chocolate compounds with the potential for aphrodisiac-like ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert, the Shams 1 solar project carries off plenty of symbolic significance for the United Arab Emirates. It will b...

Mr. Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect, created flowing designs that infused Modernism with a new sensuality and captured the imaginations of generations of architects worldwide.

A satellite with sensors powerful enough to spot lights from a single ship provides an amazing view of Earth at night.

Tougher sentences for rapists and other sex offenders in England and Wales will recognise the psychological harm they cause, says the Sentencing Council.

The company behind the Tervis tumbler said the flood of business it experienced in the last year since it appeared on "World News" has made it even more dedicated to the 'Made in America' campaign.

Waiting times are getting longer at NHS accident and emergency departments in England, according to a survey of patients.

Former software maker John McAfee, on the run in Belize after a neighbour was killed, is arrested in Guatemala accused of entering the country illegally.

Gov. Chris Gregoire signs into law measure legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington state

Rare tornado hits New Zealand's largest city, killing 3 and forcing 250 to evacuate homes

The 10-metre-long whale shark was discovered by divers who were accompanying tourists.

Tottenham progress to the knockout stages of the Europa League with an easy victory over Panathinaikos.

The chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence service, Asadullah Khalid, survived an attack by a suicide bomber in Kabul on Thursday, Afghan officials said.

Scientists say they have seen features on Asteroid Vesta that look as though they have been cut by some sort of fluid flow - possibly liquid water.

DeMarco: Are the New York Yankees serious? Are they really going to keep doing this new dance with fiscal restraint?