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It has practically become an annual tradition for me to remind same sex married couples to consider filing amended returns for open years. This may be the final year. The Supreme Court will be ruling on DOMA soon, probab...

The well-being of British children has improved in a number of areas in recent years but they still lag behind many of their European neighbours, Unicef says.

A 17-year-old Canadian girl died Sunday following a suicide attempt last week. The family of Rehtaeh Parsons said that their daughter never recovered from an alleged rape by four teenage boys in November 2011 that left h...

Real Madrid survive a late onslaught from Galatasaray to reach the Champions League semi-finals with a 5-3 aggregate win.

A group of teenagers are accused of luring young Canadian girls through Facebook and forcing them to become escorts.

5 Big Mistakes That Led to JC Penney Ousting Its CEO

At Oxheart and Underbelly, two conversations about dining: one addressing the world, the other reflecting its city.

The deployment of Patriot batteries comes as Pyongyang suspends its operations at an industrial complex it shares with the South.

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My gold guru, Frank Giustra of Vancouver, Canada pushed me hard on gold from the summer of 2008 when it was selling at $900 an ounce-- all the way up to $1900 an ounce in the summer of 2011-- a hell of a run of accumulat...

The American Conservative Union thinks the federal government spends too much. Still, there are business lobbies out there that are unhappy with some of the sequester cuts, and that represents a fundraising opportunity. ...

All passengers are taken off a transpennine service after the collision at an automatic barrier in Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

If Viviene Forbes-Thomas' Internet repair technician had showed up on time, she might not have been there to help a 6-year-old boy from Spring, Texas, get home safely.

KPMG, one of the world's largest accountancy firms, has resigned as auditor to Herbalife and Skechers amid claims against a former employee.

Mark Easton looks at the Unicef report on child well-being

Request by discredited former HBOS chief comes after MPs' report slammed his management of bank• James Crosby's statement in full Sir James Crosby, the former boss of HBOS, has asked for his knighthood to be revoked af...

Chris was starting to worry. For eight years, he'd been on the fast track at his large, multinational company. But suddenly, his career began to stall. "I ended up replacing a VP and didn't get the promotion," he told me...

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- Snowboarder Chelone Miller, the younger brother of Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller, died Sunday in the area of Mammoth Lakes, Calif. He was 29. The Mono County Sheriff's Office confirmed h...

Transgender advocate and writer Janet Mock joined Andrea Plaid, Heather McGhee, and Joy-Ann Reid on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" for a "Scandal" April 6 "watch party." Mock chimed in and discussed Kerry Washington's ro...

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr describes "unabashedly racist" comments made by the late Margaret Thatcher in her retirement.

The Laguna Beach High Breakers baseball team went to Hawaii in February to play in a tournament ... and apparently, there's something in the water over there that causes people to do lip dubs to Justin Bieber songs. Watc...

A secret recording of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and aides discussing in February how they might attack actor/activist Ashley Judd, then a potential 2014 challenger to McConnell, attracted widespread attention after Mo...