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I drove 60 cars in 2012. Driving in 2012 was an exercise in options. (Scroll down to see the list that includes 54 of the new cars that I test drove.) Cars have exited the homogenous era — there's so many ways to ...

Hillary Clinton Hospitalized: How Concussions and Blood Clots Connect

An 18-month-old snowboarder is building his skills and a fan base, pacifier and all. CBC's Jay Turnbull reports.

Violence in Afghanistan falls in 2012, but more Afghan troops dying and insider attacks rise

Artist’s concept of Epsilon Eridani, located about 10 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It is visible in the night skies with the naked eye. The system's inner asteroid belt appears as the yellowish ...

More anti-rape demonstrations are planned in the Indian capital, Delhi, to protest against the gang-rape of a young woman on a bus a fortnight ago.

If eyes are a window into one's soul, then Garry Bowden's main goal is to expose the soul of San Francisco. For more than a year, the SF-based artist has been photographing portraits of the myriad characters he meets thr...

Erika Menendez, charged with shoving a stranger to his death under a train in Queens, has a long history with New York City’s law enforcement and mental health establishments.

This year, a slew of hot stars posed (and stripped) for PETA in the name of animal rights. Elisabetta Canalis, Evelyn Lozada, Olivia Munn, Wendy Williams and others dared to bare it all for PETA's "I'd rather go naked th...

Up to 250,000 people are set to watch a fireworks display along the Thames, with many others at Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations.

This is a nice little story for that awkward period between Christmas and New Year, when there's pretty much nothing at all happening except the faint and lingering rumbles of all the family rows we had over the holidays...

Driven by a belief that ground-up rhino horns can cure cancer and other ills, the horn rush has exploded into a worldwide criminal enterprise, drawing in a surreal cast of characters.

Police look for two men who were dressed as Roald Dahl characters when they allegedly attacked man in Norwich Detectives are looking for two men dressed as Oompa-Loompas who were allegedly responsible for an assault in N...

The lead singer of rock band Lostprophets is remanded in custody by a crown court on child sexual offence charges, including conspiracy to rape a one-year-old girl.

An airliner overshot the runway at a Moscow airport, killing four of the eight people on board. See video of the crash.

A village in China has been marking a very special occasion with a married couple celebrating their 100th birthdays on the same day.

The best chalet to rent in the charming, Savoyard mountain town of Megeve.

Many athletes sent best wishes across the Twitter universe as they celebrated Christmas with their families this week. Though some of them were caught being nice, others were better suited for the naughty list. But as th...

While a furious debate over who should be crowned NFL MVP has momentarily brought the fiscal cliff negotiations to a standstill, a source within the Republican Party has leaked to the press that the tax discussion ...

Technology predictions that may be better than the Mayans

How will you grow your solo business in the coming year? Here are the three principles for solopreneurs, that helped double revenue in my freelance writing and consulting business this year.

The year 2012 will be remembered as the year of the rise of the Latino voter. The demographic shift changing the shape of U.S. politics was felt as never before, as both parties reached out to Hispanic voters and cultiva...