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Monthly injections by the drug Xolair significantly reduced hives and itchiness in patients who participated in a trial whose results were published online by The New England Journal of Medicine.

Much like Hanukkah, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, or North Korea's annual gymnastics festival, the Oscars come only once a year. And if you are one of the tens of millions of viewers who decided to forego anoth...

Jimmie Johnson has won his second Daytona 500, racing past defending NASCAR champion Brad Keselowski on the final restart, while Danica Patrick finished eighth.

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Individuals and foundations that provide funds to organizations in the Israel Lobby also help fund illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Many of the U.S. contributions going to those illegal settlement...

More than 70,000 executives, developers, analysts and journalists are en route to the annual wireless fest that is Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. It's an event that's about as loud and messy as the Consume...

This was a watershed weekend for women's sports. Forty-one years after the passing of Title IX, American men were transfixed by the athletic performance of two women - Ronda Rousey and Danica Patrick - in sports that hav...

Jimmie Johnson has won the Daytona 500 for the second time.

Barring an agreement between Congress and the President, the unthinkable happens on Friday. Automatic cuts in most government programs take effect. It's an incredibly stupid move, especially given that the economy is sti...

During long stretches of his first term, Obama was hammered with "unrelentingly negative" press coverage. By contrast, the lapdog era of the Bush years represented nothing short of an institutional collapse of the Americ...

Demand for copper is falling, but that is not stopping one company from making bold moves to expand its processing of the metal.

London may still have its traditional black cabs, double-decker busses, red phone booths, the West End theatre district and that rhythmic "mind the gap" phrase as some of the more familiar reminders of the city's culture...

Foxconn Technology Group sent Apple Inc. stock reeling on Wednesday. Shares plunged 2.4% on reports that the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics--and Apple's largest assembler--had imposed at its Chinese...

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A North Dakota high school principal said the school is taking what he described as appropriate action against three students who were photographed wearing Ku Klux Klan-style robes and hoods at a state semifinal hockey g...

Lib Dem leader returns from holiday to reveal he knew about complaints on former chief executive's behaviour five years ago The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, was embroiled in the most difficult crisis of his leade...

Mozilla has finally launched an operating system for smartphones, one whose ascendancy will probably be a slow burn, but could also mark big changes in the way people interact with mobile devices -- by ditching a closed ...

The complexities of a special primary contest to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. in Congress gave way the final weekend before the election to more traditional campaigning as candidates today visited churches and restaurants i...

The old cliche that tells us a picture is worth a thousand words, says nothing about what those words might be. In respect to Israel and Palestine, the West's informational environment was once dominated by the Zionist n...

Deputy PM says he knew of 'indirect and non-specific' concerns in 2008 about behaviour of Lib Dem former chief executive The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, has admitted that he knew of "indirect and non-specific" con...

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