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The extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon was still living in North China 3,000 years ago, scientists say.

A man was caught on camera swimming in a national park in Australia when a crocodile lunged at him into the water from a rock. He appeared unharmed by the surprise encounter.

The first concrete responses to the shootings in Newtown, Conn., began emerging Tuesday, as state leaders, corporations and the White House pointed to gun control measures.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of an official inquiry into the fatal attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, did not find Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responsible for security lapses even as they outlined ...

A widely-seen video shows an eagle snatching a baby from a Canadian park; is it real?

Ke$ha understands why people might not want to listen to “Die Young” right now. In response to reports that the song’s radio airplay has declined in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootin...

In a closed-door negotiation, top Republican and Democratic lawmakers have killed a ban on detaining American citizens without trial. The Senate approved the ban, a bipartisan effort led by Senators Dianne Feinstein (...

Leica M-E (Photo credit: Ben Fredericson (xjrlokix)) In part 2 of my interview with Roland Wolff, VP of Marketing and Corporate Retail at Leica Camera in the United States, we focys on the company's growth plans in th...

The FDA seems to be everyone's favorite whipping boy, guilty of over-regulation as well as under-regulation; harboring a bias against industry, while enjoying a suspicious coziness to it.  And of course, it is the des...

Former South African president Nelson Mandela is "looking much better" after treatment but doctors are "in no hurry to send him home", according to the government.

Two bank robbers have pulled off a daring escape after using a makeshift rope to scale down 20 floors of a prison in Chicago.

Instagram claims their change of Terms of Service meant nothing. Users seemed to disagree today. Instagram competitor Starmatic received nearly double the uploads today that they've had in the past 3 months.

French judges will not drop aggravated pimping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

X-ray evidence for the most massive black holes in our universe has been discovered -- but they're not supermassive, they're ULTRAmassive.

An arrest is made after celebrities living in Los Angeles were targeted in a new prank known as "swatting".

What an austerity experiment can teach the United States and the rest of the world.

Unless the world ends on December 21 because a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar magically comes true, the biggest event of 2012 online will remain Election Day and the reelection of President Barack Obama. That ev...

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The commissioner for Wales' largest police force says it is being "short changed" by £8m under the funding formula announced by the UK government.

An off-duty police officer escapes injury following reports of a shooting in County Down.

Friends of former chief whip Andrew Mitchell cast doubts on police version of Downing Street confrontation Relations between the Conservative party and the Metropolitan police were threatening to erupt into open warfare ...

A Japanese Macaque on the cover of Life. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sometime in 1952, Imo starting having problems:  strange humans were offering her food and spying on her.  As a two-year-old female Japanese macaqu...