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North Korea says it will attack US military bases in Japan in retaliation for the use of B-52s in joint exercises with the South.

Harry Reems became a cause celebre in Hollywood after he was convicted on federal obscenity charges related to 'Deep Throat.' The charges were eventually dropped.Harry Reems, who starred with Linda Lovelace in the 1972 p...

The "miserable March" weather is set to continue with intense rainfall and significant snowfall for Friday and into the weekend, forecasters say.

• Inquiry launched after league tables revealed• Leak shows pressure on staff to refer claimants The government has launched an inquiry after it was forced to admit that jobcentres have been setting targets a...

Salary.com, a 14-year-old career website owned by IBM that supplies job seekers with free general salary information and more detailed information for a fee, just released a survey where it asked workers how they waste t...

An 11-year-old Houston girl who had been repeatedly raped by her adult cousin gave birth today, authorities said.

India: Will Tourism Be Tarnished by Recent Attacks on Women?

What it takes to run the Metropolitan Opera.

The education of the 'Barefoot Bandit': Boeing worker mentors infamous plane thief in prison

A cyber-attack on banks and broadcasters appears to have come from a Chinese IP address, South Korean officials say, but the identity of those behind it remains unknown.

A New Day to Celebrate: Will Kurdish Withdrawal Bring Peace With Turkey?

Weeks after announcing he'd become a first-time dad, Perez Hilton is formally introducing his son, Mario Armando Lavandeira III. The celebrity blogger, multimedia entrepreneur and actor, who will turn 35 on March 23, spo...

As it stands, the BlackBerry 10 platform has all the right building blocks you would expect as part of the core OS and firmware. It has a browser that renders the web as good as Chrome or Safari. It has the requisite com...

Is This Man Single-Handedly Stifling the U.S. Housing Recovery?

CARACAS (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas in downtown Caracas on Thursday as anti-government student protesters clashed with supporters of late President Hugo Chavez in an increasingly volatile atmosphere ahead of next m...

There are lots of places you can go to get all the latest messy details about Cyprus—Felix Salmon's take is good—but the nickel version is that everyone is fed up. The Cyprus legislature has refused to appr...

I have revised and updated my paper on TARGET2.  The new paper adds more information and (I think) explains many of the issues better than the original draft that I circulated last November.

Papers of Margaret Thatcher made public for the first time reveal Tory divisions over how to tackle the invasion of the Falklands.

The Met office has warned of significant snow across much of the UK.

A man who may be linked to the slaying of Colorado's state prison chief led authorities in Texas on a harrowing, 100-mph car chase Thursday that ended after he crashed into a semi and then opened fire before being shot d...

A jury convicted Cook County Commissioner William Beavers today on one count of corruptly impeding the Internal Revenue Service and three counts of filing a false federal income tax return for 2006, 2007 and 2008.

A new zip-wire is due to open at Penrhyn Quarry, designed to carry people at speeds of more than 100mph (161km/h).