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Girl, named as 'high-achieving' Poonam Bhattal, 13, fell from ski lift even though safety bar was down Tributes were paid to a teenage girl who died after falling off a ski lift in Italy during a school trip. Poonam Bhat...

Silicon Valley was all abuzz on Friday over news that two of Google's buildings on North Whisman Road in Mountain View were suffering from toxic vapors seeping up from the ground below.

Microsoft becomes the latest US technology firm - after Apple and Facebook - to confirm that it has been targeted by computer hackers.

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The teenage suspect in the murder and dismemberment of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway will stand trial after a judge ruled there is enough evidence, including a 911 confession, to move forward with the case

If Earlie Johnson was aroused to anger on Tuesday afternoon, he had a good reason: His porn collection was stolen from his home in Muskegon, Mich. The porn robbers broke through Johnson's back door and also stole three f...

Scottish ministers claim the UK's loss of the top AAA credit rating confirms the failure of the UK government's economic policy.

Three military charities are to share £1.3m from fines imposed on banks that had rigged interest rates, Chancellor George Osborne announces.

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As emergency workers tended to injured fans and ambulance sirens wailed in the background, a somber Tony Stewart skipped the traditional post-race victory celebration following the NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday ...

A sticky-fingered man who shares the name of a former British prime minister has been banned from shops in a UK city after he was caught shoplifting several times. According to the Nottingham Post, Winston Churchill, 48,...

Tony Stewart won a chaotic Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway that ended with a frightening last-lap crash that appeared to injure fans when rookie Kyle Larson's car sailed into the fence that separ...

Some Poland Spring water bottles may be contaminated by gasoline, the New Hampshire Department of Health warned in a consumer advisory published this week. According to WMUR.com, state health officials said Friday that c...

Young entrepreneurs are changing the face of Africa. I set out to produce a list of the 30 Africans under 30 years old who are making the most dramatic impact across the continent. To do so, in November I enlisted an out...

'Autonomous weapons', which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban "killer robots" before they reach the production stage is...

The Washington gun-control debate in which President Obama and fellow Democrats are trying to promptly tighten firearms laws is emerging as a longer effort with both sides spending millions on congressional candidates wh...

Cardinal Roger Mahony is clearly excited about his trip to Rome. On the eve of the cardinal's sworn deposition in a lawsuit over a priest accused of molesting 26 boys in his archdiocese in 1987, Mahony sent this, his 13t...

Iran said Saturday that it downed and captured another "enemy drone," the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

Initial reports say at least five people were injured, including four who were strapped to backboardsAt least five people in the stands were reportedly injured at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday when a multi-c...

Glenn Beck doesn't like the WWE's latest storyline, and WWE wants him to come explain why. The wrestling production company has cast wrestler Jack Swagger as a conservative, tea-party-ish villain with a xenophobic fictio...

A project aimed at restoring the artwork of two sites in Lo Manthang, Nepal, has trained a team of local residents to revise historic works.