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NYC woman plunges to her death when 17th-floor balcony railing gives way.

Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests.

But his political appeal endures

State Department declines to elaborate on 'security considerations' that led to closure of numerous missions US embassies that would normally be open on Sunday - including those in Abu Dhabi, Baghdad and Cairo - will clo...

(Reuters) - A court hearing on Friday may provide a roadmap for how Detroit's historic bankruptcy filing will unfold as the judge overseeing the case could set a speedy schedule, appoint a mediator and rule on other matt...

Two teenager boys are charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl in east London.

His tumultuous presidency ends Saturday

Washington is backpedaling from the Secretary of State's recent statements on drones and Egypt

Fears of customer backlash over breach of privacy as firms give GCHQ unlimited access to their undersea cables Some of the world's leading telecoms firms, including BT and Vodafone, are secretly collaborating with Britai...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Charges against a Saudi national accused of paying his roommate to kill a Warrensburg bar owner were dropped Friday after information from a critical witness changed, leaving the state with insuf...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party has won a two-thirds majority in parliament in this week's elections, officials say.

More than a half million American high school students are enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Program, (JROTC). The Army's junior-year text book is analyzed here. The text contains a wildly reactionary and...

An anonymous social media user threatened to attack TIME's Catherine Mayer. Was she right to report it?

It takes no savvy to know what Vladimir Putin will do next. Putin (Vova or VVP, as he is known by Russians) can be counted on to do exactly what his declared "enemy" - the United States - does not want him to do. He will...

Prince George was born July 22 at 4:24 p.m. London time.

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Who is winning and where of course depends upon what you are defining as winning. In this case, it's consumer satisfaction with smartphone technologies. It seems that Samsung beats in the US in terms of this consumer sat...

What could be described as a monster is actually a pyrosome, a jet-propelled organism that is often found with hundreds of others in underwater colonies.

The Syrian Support Group was the 'go to' NGO for funding Syrian rebels. Sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the group had it all. Then the curtain was lifted and it turned out it was about oil.

Archaeologists discovered what may be the remains of a medieval boat that's possibly hundreds of years old during construction on a drainage project along the River Chet near Loddon, England. The oaken vessel was found i...

Here's Americans living or traveling abroad should do.

PM's high-profile adviser lambasts plans to block online porn, and says police need more resources to fight internet crime Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, one of David Cameron's most high-profile technology advisers, h...