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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela offers a positive update on her former husband, as she thanks the media after visiting his bedside.

After The Daily Mail reported that Baldwin's wife tweeted during James Gandolfini's funeral, the actor went ballistic in defending his wife's honor by, umm, tweeting out threats of violence and anal stimulation at the re...

Poor sales and large operating costs losses spell a dim outlook for the once very popular phone maker.

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg explains the experiments she is doing 240 miles above the Earth on the International Space Station -- including the effect living in space has on eyes.

The Feb. 15 Russian meteor event sent shock waves around the globe, the most powerful impact ever detected by infrasound stations.

South Africans would be celebrating the arrival of the first African-American president were it not for Nelson Mandela's fragile health

The United States is looking for ways to improve its defenses and increase the nimbleness of its response in case of computer-network attacks.

USDA Forces Schools to Serve Healthier Snacks

I don't typically rely on Rolling Stone for energy policy analysis, but I couldn't help scratching my head over a piece earlier this week decrying "Big Oil's Lies About Alternative Energy." The story attempts to show tha...

A big part of the positivity around Skylanders was the artisan talents of the individuals behind the video-game and toy designs. I was intrigued to see how this compared to Disney Infinity. My suspicion with any of these...

The death toll after Wednesday's riots in China's far western region of Xinjiang rises to 35, state media say.

Brazil "lost a great opportunity" to improve public services when it got the 2014 football World Cup, Rio de Janeiro's mayor tells the BBC, as protests continue.

Andy Murray and Laura Robson heighten the Wimbledon mood

Rescue crews searching for a classic American schooner carrying seven people -- reportedly including a Florida Keys family -- believe the boat sank between New Zealand and Australia, although they haven't given up hope o...

Sarah Murnaghan has had two lung transplants. The first one failed.

Last year, media mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman made a commitment to the future of electronic dance music. Sillerman had then just formed SFX Entertainment, underlying his faith in the industry's fastest-growing market by p...

The annual list of the cleanest -- and dirtiest -- beaches is out. Before you head to the shore,

By Lisa Gillespie

The mercury is expected to hit 54C in California as a number of safety measures are put in place to counter extreme heat.

The economy doesn't contain a fixed number of jobs to be divided up among people who need them. As an economy grows, it creates more jobs. And what we've seen over the last 200 years is that new immigrants to America fue...

The Heat will not get as rapturous reveiws as Bridesmaids, nor will it be considered as revolutionary, but it's actually a sly advancement for women in comedy as a film that, if you look hard enough, busts down some pret...

Enjoy some of the most inspiring, beautiful and down-right stunning photos from our adventures in space this past week.