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The secret election to pick a new pope has yet to begin. But whoever is picked may already be mulling over his choice of name -- and what it means.

A pastor exposing the president's scandals was arrested illegally. Korea under the dictator's daughter's ruling is dictatorial.

Queen Elizabeth II Hospitalized After Apparent Infection

The GOP Prefers Pancakes: Why All the Goofy Polls?

Henry Blodget has an interesting piece at Business Insider about challenges Google is facing in it's quest to create a self-driving car based on conversations with "someone close to the company". He lists 3 challanges...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - They hover over Hollywood film sets and professional sports events. They track wildfires in Colorado, survey Kansas farm crops and vineyards in California. They inspect miles of industrial pipeline a...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church marked its first Sunday in nearly eight years without a papal blessing, as cardinals gathered to elect a new leader of the 1.2 billion-member faith in one of the most tr...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been undergoing "tougher" new treatment for cancer, including chemotherapy at the military hospital where he has been for the past two weeks, his vice presi...

WASHINGTON -- A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a y...

Gareth Bale scored his seventh goal in nine games as Tottenham won the north London derby against Arsenal Sunday.

Four months after President Obama won a second term, the only issue truly uniting Republicans is a commitment to shrinking government through spending cuts, low taxes and less regulation.

A baby born infected with the AIDS virus who got immediate treatment now has no detectable virus in her blood – not quite a cure, but so close to one that it has doctors talking.

Warner Brothers and a financing partner spent about $190 million, and $80 million in marketing costs, for a film that made $28 million.

On Friday, China’s State Council released a statement calling for higher down payments for second homes in cities and demanding both the collection of taxes on secondary sales and the enforcement of existing prope...

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for northern Illinois and northwest Indiana for Monday night and Tuesday. About an inch of snow is expected in the daytime Monday, then another six inches is expec...

Calling it a "good-faith effort" to help the Egyptian people, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released $250 million in economic aid Sunday, with a pledge of more if President Mohamed Morsy implements economic and poli...

The sun came up in my town in New Jersey today. I must admit, I was somewhat concerned, considering the rhetoric we endured around the sequestration these past few weeks. I wasn’t sure if one of the consequences o...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is set to use swelling offshore holdings of its tightly-managed currency worth around 1 trillion yuan ($160 billion) to justify a landmark shift in tactics to relax capital controls.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Staking his credibility on meeting a deficit-cutting target, Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram is likely to be forced to scale back spending in the upcoming fiscal year after delivering a feder...

KARACHI, Pakistan -- A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a neighborhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi. No one has ...

WARSAW, Poland -- Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "...

With Ubisoft set to unveil the first official details and preview information about Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag on March 4, the Internet has been abuzz with the leaked trailer and screenshots, as well as the f...