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The Nationalist MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Brian Adam, has died at the age of 64 after a battle with cancer.

Outperforming the market is hard. The most highly paid people in the world -- hedge fund managers -- failed miserably at that task in 2012. But three academics handily trounced the market with their Google Trends Strateg...

"Walking Dead" fans, here's your dream wedding cake! Reddit user mikemchenry posted a photo Thursday of the blood-and-guts cake served at a wedding he attended last weekend. He wrote that the groom is a fan of AMC's zomb...

Prosecutors in Jodi Arias' murder trial finished the rebuttal portion of their case and the judge said closing arguments will begin next week. Arias entered the courtroom Thursday morning, wearing a black shirt with gree...

The CIA added one of the Boston bomb suspects to a terrorism database 18 months ago, officials say, days after the FBI said it had also investigated him.

WASHINGTON -- Gary Wanderlingh, who is American, and Samuel Conlon, who is British, were introduced online through friends five years ago. They felt a connection immediately, but they delayed meeting, they said, because ...

Police charge a 15-year-old boy with murdering a teenager on a bus in north London.

Two new trials have ended up reporting conflicting results regarding the expansion of the indication for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) for patients without a wide QRS interval. The positive results of the small...

Pop quiz: What is the Samsung Series 5 Chronos? How about the ATIV Smart PC? Can the non-techies in the house tell me specifically which product category Samsung's Series 9 falls under? Sammy fans are likely familiar wit...

CIA Put Dead Bomber in Terrorist Database in 2011

The Thick Red Line: White House Cautious on Syria's Chemical Weapons Use

As Las Vegas and Macau continue to perform, Wynn Resorts managed to deliver a wide first quarter earnings beat after the bell on Thursday. The casino operator founded by billionaire Steve Wynn has had a good 2013 from a ...

A former US government employee is accused of recruiting US citizens in sensitive national security posts to spy for Cuba.

"For all you love, Johnson & Johnson."

Mahmood Al Zarooni banned from racing for his part in doping scandal that has embarrassed Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed.

A new way of fishing invented by a humpback whale 30 years ago has now spread to nearly half of those living off New England.

America, difficult as it may be for some to accept, is a house of cards, i.e., "a weakened structure that is in danger of collapsing or failing if its foundations continue to erode." Our nation and our democracy are bein...

Still bummed that the tacocopter probably isn't making deliveries anytime soon? Haven't quite built your own burrito bomber or found a flying pizza delivery system yet? If you're a big fan of unmanned food delivery syste...

For the football players, it's less about surviving the stress of the picks and more about saving face, says a sports psychologist.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Left tackle? Left guard? Trade up? Trade down? Stay put? So many questions for the San Diego Chargers' rookie brain trust, and so many ways they can go in the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night...

Miguel Duarte remembers the first time he saw an American police officer. He was 17 and had crossed the U.S. border illegally. Duarte noticed the creases in the American officer's uniform, so sharp they could cut a tamal...

In the latest flap over the high cost of cancer medicines, nearly 120 physicians from 15 countries have authored a commentary in a medical journal in which they call for drugmakers to lower their prices. The move reflect...