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If you Google the phrase "Butter in Bangladesh" you find pages of people talking about a gag paper from 1994, called "Stupid Data Miner Tricks: Overfitting the S&P 500". It grew up to be a chapter in the Nerds on Wall St...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Aaron Murray wanted nothing more this week than to send Georgia's senior class out with a game to remember. The junior quarterback provided a record-setting performance to make it a reality. Murray ...

The gathering revolt in the House and among conservatives over the Senate tax deal is bad news for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who looked like Henry Clay late Monday night but who is emerging with fee...

Police search for prisoners from a juvenile detention centre in Peru who took advantage of a prison riot to make an escape.

Three snowmobile users were reported missing on Rangeley Lake, Maine, and the Maine Warden Service said it had to suspend its search for them because of freezing temperatures and high winds.

This is a president who has explicitly put cuts to Social Security on the agenda, while keeping taxes on Wall Street speculation off the agenda. And a president who decided to put deficit reduction, rather than job creat...

A new review reinforces a counterintuitive point that past studies have suggested - being a bit on the heavy side may actually cut your risk of dying earlier.

The remarks came in the pope's New Year's Eve Mass, in which the 85-year-old pontiff implored congregants to opt for peace in the upcoming year.

Abraham Lincoln, the tall president with the stovepipe hat, the full beard and the grief-stricken eyes, slipped away from the White House's annual New Year's celebration with a few members of his administration. Lincoln ...

While 2012 was the year of mobile, 2013 is going to be the year of the living room, with tablets, TV screens, and e-readers becoming a big part of the new battlefield. New TV screens from Apple: Rumors of an Apple TV hav...

2013: TV To Look Forward To

Eight U.S. sailors filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo utility that operates the Fukushima nuclear power plants, charging that the company lied about the high level of radiation in the area where the carrier USS Ronald Rea...

Billy Connolly talks to the BBC's Tim Masters about his new film

Thousands of people in Hong Kong take to the streets on the first day of the new year to call for the city's chief executive to resign.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Connor Shaw led No. 11 South Carolina to the brink of victory and Dylan Thompson carried the Gamecocks over the hump in the Outback Bowl. Thompson came off the bench to throw a 32-yard touchdown pass ...

English: New Year's Resolutions postcard (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Let me guess: You want to lose weight in 2013, or maybe just eat healthier. Perhaps you want to spend less money or spend more time with your friends and...

Masked and armed thieves break into Paris' flagship Apple store on New Year's Eve

DALLAS -- Clint Chelf threw three of Oklahoma State's five touchdown passes and the Cowboys shook off a disappointing Big 12 finish by dominating Purdue 58-14 in the Heart of Dallas Bowl on Tuesday. The Cowboys, a year r...

NEW YORK CITY -- The city was filled with gunfire as at least seven people around the city were shot in the first hours of the New Year, according to published reports.

Nouri al-Maliki says protests alleging discrimination should end, as Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr backs demonstrators.

Meat plays an outsize role in the demented behavior in Mo Yan's novel "Pow!"

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