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Russian scientists say they have found a new type of bacterial life form in water from a buried Antarctic lake.

Meat lovers are shortening their lives by eating processed foods such as pies and sausages, says a study involving 10 countries.

This week, Letter From London comes to you from Paris, which is of course umbilically connected to London by the Eurostar so we have decided that makes it ok for this column.

A man described as a spokesman for Osama bin Laden has been arrested in Jordan and will be tried in New York City, the US confirms.

Rafa Benitez believes Chelsea can overcome a 1-0 deficit in Bucharest to make the Europa League last eight.

A nine-day-old southern white rhino is the latest addition to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

This sounds like an Onion story, but it actually happened: A twenty-something couple decided to go on a bike trip through South America; when they stopped updating their Facebook pages, their loved ones assumed they'd be...

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A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

After more than three decades of economic prosperity, China faces serious environmental challenges, including its increasingly filthy waterways

Japanese Man Dies After Hospitals Reject Him 36 Times

Exclusive Interview: Did This Bolshoi Ballerina Inspire an Acid Attack?

The 28-year-old is rushed to hospital after falling ill on-set while filming her weekly fashion commentary programme.

In another example of unions trying to push the boundaries of recent NLRB restrictions on employment policies, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, Local 2001 (“Union”) recently cha...

A look back at the rapper's changing appearance.

Austerity cuts have affected the Welsh government's decisiveness and it must be more agile and 'restless' to perform better, says Wales' top civil servant.

A "digital apple" a day keeps the doctor away.

Shares in insurance firm Aviva sink 15% after it cuts its dividend by more than a quarter in order to finance a turnaround strategy.

The obesity rate in the United States is, on a whole, staying steady, according to a new Gallup-Healthways report. The report shows that the obesity rate was 26.2 percent in 2012, which is about the same as the 26.1 perc...

Dove, a Unilever personal care brand best known for its soap, is getting some buzz among the Digerati for distributing a Photoshop plugin that promises to add skin tone to an image, but actually erases all special effect...

A total of 45 jobs are to go in Northern Ireland with the closure of six Co-operative Travel shops and two Thomas Cook branches.

Venezuela's acting president says Hugo Chavez's embalmed body will be permanently displayed in a glass casket so that "his people will always have him."