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(Reuters) - North Korea on Monday accused U.S. and South Korean authorities of fabricating the results of a probe that concluded Pyongyang sent small surveillance drones, or unmanned aircraft, to spy on key South Korean ...

BAUCHI, Nigeria -- One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamic extremists who abducted more than 300 schoolgirls says the kidnapping was “too terrifying for words,” and she is now...

(Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a referendum on self-rule for eastern Ukraine, with some saying that meant independence and others eventual union with Russia as fighting flared in a conflic...

Martyn Poliakoff, chemistry professor at the University of Nottingham and owner of the best head of hair in science, has a video today exploring the properties of aluminum (or as chemists call it, aluminium). There are a...

AP INVESTIGATION: High costs, corruption suspicions in Brazil's World Cup on tournament's eve

Lee Kun-hee, the head of South Korea's largest business group underwent an emergency operation in Seoul over the weekend. Lee who took over from his father in 1987 is credited with transforming Samsung into one of the mo...

Egypt's prosecutor receives urgent appeal to transfer jailed Al Jazeera reporter to hospital as his health deteriorates.

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Enemies, innocent victims, and soldiers have always made up the three faces of war. With war growing more distant, with drones capable of performing on the battlefiel...

Locals return to Homs where many of its buildings, many thousands of years old, are now heaps of rubble.

Twin girls born with a rare condition in Ohio were breathing on their own and their mom said she and her husband were able to hold them on Mother's Day.

BJP leader Narendra Modi faces AAP's Arvind Kejriwal as temple city goes to polls in last phase of national elections.

Christie's wants you to know that tonight's auction of major contemporary art isn't just for filthy rich old people. It's for filthy rich Internet people, too.

The actress, who won an Oscar for her role in The Help, will have a starring role in the upcoming sci-fi flick

"No Place to Hide" is an account of the Edward Snowden case by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story.

The Washington Monument reopens, huge snow accumulates in spring, a war rages on Sriracha, Pope Francis looks bored and more.

Between traffic-light cameras, blue-light cameras that scan neighborhoods for violent crime, cameras on board city trains and buses -- not to mention private security cameras -- there are few places you can go in Chicago...

This is the time of year when publications that cover the hedge-fund industry do their annual rankings, and people get irate about the vast sums of money that the top hedgies make—in some cases, billions of dollars. At...

From Etsy to Viggle, there is money to be made.

African football's ruling body, the Confederation of African Football, has called for a thorough investigation into how 15 fans died at a league match in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The red velvet cake, with its artificial coloring and benign cocoa sweetness has always been about commercialization. But it has honest roots.

ASHEBORO, N.C. -- The North Carolina entrepreneur who was locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic Party primary with former “American Idol” singer Clay Aiken died Monday, said the president of the...

Hey, looky here! Steve Benen highlights the chart on the right, which shows that President Obama is making steady progress reducing the massive federal deficit that was rung up in FY2009 by George Bush and the Republican...