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The officer tasked with stemming sexual attacks in the US Air Force is arrested for sexual assault in the state of Virginia, police say.

Around Cleveland and Pittsburgh, a web of chefs, butchers and farmers is trying to bring the landscape back into balance.

Reigning Women's Super League champions Arsenal begin title defence with 4-0 defeat by Liverpool.

Dozens of dead school children in Newtown last December. Dozens more shootings of children every month since. When does it stop? Will our society ever value children more than bullets? Must we wait until their tiny bodie...

Three women, missing for more than a decade, have been found alive in a house in Cleveland, Ohio. Follow details live Adam Gabbatt

The bill passed the State Senate by a 12-to-9 vote and the governor quickly signed it, making Delaware the 11th state to permit same-sex marriages.

Some of the most creative and innovative watchmakers at Baselworld 2013 were not only housed inside of Hall 1, where the most renowned global watch brands resided. They were located throughout the multi-building Basel fa...

Marlene Hodge and others allege a dorm supervisor sexually abused deaf girls as young as 4 during the 60s and 70s at Fanwood deaf school in White Plains, N.Y.

Three women who went missing in separate cases have been found together in the city of Cleveland, police say. A 52-year-old man and his 2 brothers are arrested.

The number of Russians at British private schools is rising as the rarefied world of Harry Potter is increasingly seen as a fashionable passport to a better life It is summer term at Maidwell Hall prep school. The boys a...

The biggest occasion in their 81-year history is approaching for minnows Wigan but the FA Cup final might prove an unwelcome distraction in their battle to retain English Premier League status.

Ida Skivenes brings a new meaning to "playing with your food." Skivenes, a 29-year-old food enthusiast who lives in Oslo, Norway, makes creative and edible masterpieces out of breakfast food, including her favorite meal ...

Expert testifies Michael Jackson' doctor unqualified to treat insomnia, addiction

Brian Lam, founder of gadget review site The Wirecutter, on his pared down media diet. "I try not to open Twitter too often. Some editors, I don't know how they're getting any work done."

The Philippines' volatile Mount Mayon volcano blasts ash and rocks into the air, leaving at least five climbers reported dead.

Harvard was only the beginning. Eight months after allegations of widespread cheating rocked the Ivy League university, another cheating scandal emerged on Tuesday afternoon at an affiliate college of Columbia University...

As long as we're on the subject of shiny new gun laws, Steve Benen points out yet another offering from the great state of Texas: Perhaps the most controversial of the gun-related items, HB 1076 would ban state agencies ...

Where humans were once the relatively helpless pawns of almighty nature, super-adaptable agents have transformed their former master into their servant. Nature now answers to the beck and call of its human masters.

Lawyers for the James E. Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a Colorado movie theater, say he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.

Investor confidence drives stock markets to record highs but rally comes amid mixed signals from the wider US economy The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 for the first time Tuesday as investor confidence...

And here I was thinking that Brazilian inflation was bad. Russia is ahead of the curve, with inflation at 7.2%. That puts Russia's real interest rate at just 1.05%. The refinance rate is 8.25%.

A memorial to the "forgotten heroes" who worked in coal mines during World War II is officially dedicated.