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If there's a ticking bomb in your personal or professional life, you already know it's better to defuse it than to let it explode. If you don't face it head on, you risk fallout that can last months, years--or even a lif...

The US is to return more than a dozen illegally smuggled dinosaurs to Mongolia, following the return on Monday of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton.

DNA shows Ohio kidnap suspect fathered girl freed with 3 women; relatives call him paranoid

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigeno...

Criminal investigation in Texas plant explosion; officials haven't linked paramedic's arrest

If Jon Favreau's "Chef" was ever in danger of receiving adequate financing, he can probably breathe easy now.

Residents flee as their neighbour smashes a bulldozer-like vehicle through the walls of their homes.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen ...

A disclosure of e-mails on Friday showed the White House was more involved in revising talking points about the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, than officials have previously acknowledged.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A standoff with an armed man who police said took multiple hostages entered its second day Saturday as authorities worked to negotiate his surrender and his captives' release.

DETROIT (AP) -- Roughly 2,000 Arab-Americans and others in about a dozen communities nationwide were volunteering their time Saturday as part of the National Arab American Service Day, tackling a punch list that included...

A top scholar on the Lost Tribes of Israel in Africa is expected to bring attention -- and funding -- to Miami's only state university

Bulgarian security officials say they have seized 350,000 illegal ballot papers a day before parliamentary elections.

As a single mother herself, Iyanla Vanzant understands the struggles that come with being an only parent. From her personal account of raising a fatherless son to her experience in working with fractured families, Iyanla...

An explosion at a coal mine in China's south-west Guizhou province kills 12 miners and injures two others, state media report.

A group is working to replace garbage bags often used as makeshift luggage by foster children with their very own duffel bags.

The Bloomberg terminal spying scandal has reached new heights, CNBC reports. A former Bloomberg employee told CNBC that he accessed information on the terminals of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasur...

For 25 years the magazine has chronicled the births, marriages and lovely homes of the stars - and it has changed the media's agenda So many contracts have been signed and so many celebrity parties photographed since the...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 11

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Yang Jingtao did what many young, brave Chinese did - he left his home as a teenager to fight the invading Japanese in World War II. The problem was he fought while wearing the uniform of the Nationalis...

Happy Mother's Day! A lot of people will be celebrating today's special occasion, including a ton of celebrity moms -- some who have put their careers on hold to be at home with their children. From Reese Witherspoon and...