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We can thank onscreen chiseled bodies for a recent uptick in weight disorders among men and boys

The two men who boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with stolen passports have been identified as Iranians, authorities said today.

A man claiming to be the friend of two Iranians who used fake passports to board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight told ABC News today that the men stayed at his home the night before the flight went missing.

Russia's sending thousands of troops into Ukraine's autonomous region of Crimea, after street protests that began last year ousted Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February, was a sign of Moscow's int...

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian crew returning after spending nearly six months on the International Space Station landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan.     

Nation marks third anniversary of earthquake and tsunami which triggered world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Ukrainians in the Kherson province just north of Crimea say Russian operatives have moved into the territory, an incursion which, if true, could show Vladimir Putin has more than just the Black Sea peninsula in his sight...

TAKENOURA, Japan (AP) -- On a chilly morning last weekend, a 57-year-old Japanese man adjusted his diving mask before heading out to sea from the tsunami-hit northeast coast.     

Foreign minister dismisses criticism from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain, saying Qatar's policy is "openess towards all".

People are using machines to amplify their humanity.

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Tuesday morning, Funny or Die released an episode of Zach Galifianakis' satirical interview show Between Two Ferns featuring Barack Obama. The 44th president came on to promote the Affordable Care Act. The whole thing is...

Sen. Grassley says the program for foreign students is out of control and he is calling for a moratorium.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal judge in San Francisco stopped the destruction Monday of millions of telephone records collected by the National Security Agency more than five years ago.     

A bear and boy become instant buddies while playing a fun game of "follow the leader" at the zoo.

A 22-pound house cat scared a Portland family into calling 911 for help. KGW has more.

I wrote the words "I am Adam Lanza's mother" to allow myself to get help for my son. Reading Peter Lanza's interview with The New Yorker, I'm so glad I did.

Ethnic Russians and others from Crimea are fearful of what could come of Sunday's referendum. Michael Holmes reports.

State Sen. Malcolm Smith is hosting a fund-raiser that proves he's the Tiger Woods of money grubbing. The indicted Queens pol is holding a "virtual golf outing," in which he...

(MOSCOW) -- A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian crew returning after spending nearly six months on the International Space Station landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan. NASA said in a live TV broadcast that the...

Matthew L. Wald, who has written about aviation for The New York Times, answers questions about plane crashes and what could have happened to the missing flight.     

NEW YORK -- Jack Belliveau, a Harvard scientist whose quest to capture the quicksilver flare of thought inside a living brain led to the first magnetic resonance image of human brain function, died on Feb. 14 in San Mate...