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Frank Calabrese, hit man for the Chicago mob, dies at 75 in federal prison in North Carolina

With the approaching end of 2012, here’s a brief checklist of some things you may have overlooked that you might still need to take care of. Time to Rebalance? If you rebalance annually, have you already done so, ...

Anne Hathaway has received some of the best reviews of her career for "Les MIserables," just not necessarily from herself. In Tom Hooper's new film, Hathaway stars as Fantine, a doomed single mother-turned-prostitute who...

Researchers say they've found a formula to explain cryptic functions that were outlined by a brilliant Indian mathematician.

Thor Batista, playboy son of Brazil's richest man, faces trial for manslaughter. Click here for more billionaire scandals of 2012. "Let me tell you about the very rich," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in his short story The R...

Many of us have been conditioned to think that overstating our intentions as specifically and boldly as possible is a good way to help these ambitions materialize. The more we define the future, the more successful we ar...

The former US president has been in intensive care since Sunday and his health has deteriorated.

Children who visit hospital accident and emergency departments will be logged in a national database to help spot signs of abuse.

Before you resolve to work out more, try these three tips.

After a segment catching up "Today" viewers on Randi Zuckerberg's accidentally viral Facebook photo, the hosts of NBC's morning news show demonstrated just how acceptable it's become to be totally, utterly ignorant of th...

Japan (3-0 over Egypt), Mexico (4-2 against Senegal after extra time), Brazil (3-2 Honduras) and South Korea (beat Great Britain on penalties after 1-1) all progress to the semi-finals of the men’s Olympic soccer ...

In recent years, it's become commonplace for celebrities to release their own brands of liquor, their own wine labels and even open their own restaurants. Given the recent surge in the popularity of so-called "breastaura...

(Photo: Falcon Writing) Even in a holiday week, the Apple rumors continue--and today, it's that the company may produce a smart watch in the first half of next year. Yes, another techie watch, the bane of the technology ...

We love getting a sneak peek into people's homes. Whether they are luxurious mansions owned by celebrities and decked out by top interior designers or just really interesting pads designed by cool people with a great eye...

BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm pushed through the U.S. Northeast on Thursday, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of airline flights while bringing some holiday cheer to families hoping for snow a...

"Email is broken and Inky can fix it." That's the mantra of Bethesda-based startup Arcode, the creators of Inky, a sleek, disruptive, forward-thinking email client.

BROOKLINE, Mass. -- Author Dennis Lehane is offering an unusual reward for the person who finds his family's beloved missing beagle. Lehane says he'll name a character in his next book after whoever finds Tessa, who disa...

Bono and Sinead O'Connor took shoppers in Dublin's Grafton Street by surprise by holding an impromptu concert on Christmas Eve.

Tim Cook is to take home a salary that works out to 1% of the $378m (£235m) he received to be Apple's boss last year.

A man is charged with murder following the discovery of a woman's body at a house in Carmarthen on Christmas Day.

A Lakewood, Colo., dad thought he was getting his son a special surprise for Christmas, but it turns out that he got far more than he bargained for. Mark Giles bought his 5-year-old son, Braydon, a refurbished Nintendo 3...

It's great to be back and we hope you enjoyed Socialist Santa's handouts. Congress obviously didn't heed president Obama's advice to eat Christmas cookies and drink eggnog because Harry Reid called John Boehner a despot ...