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Scientists and art experts finally know what's beneath one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces, "The Blue Room," using advances in infrared imagery to reveal a hidden portrait of a bow-tied man with his face resting on...

Dennis Kneier, the Mayor of San Marino, California, resigned Tuesday as a result of the recent, very peculiar scandal in which he threw a bag of dog waste onto his neighbor's lawn. “As is well known, early in the eveni...

A boy exploring an apparently vacant house in Dayton, Ohio Sunday received a nasty shock when he saw what was inside the closet: the hardened, leathery body of a man whom officials say may have died nearly five years ear...

Chinese envoy, Vietnamese official express 'desire' to solve sea dispute

After years of relatively lax legislature, Japan has finally made the possession of child pornography a punishable offense, but exempts "necessary evil" of manga.

On Tuesday, Dr. Mehmet Oz found himself in the hot seat during a Senate hearing on the Federal Trade Commission's crackdown targeting bogus diet products. Senators criticized the syndicated talk show host for positive co...

UPDATE, 10:30 p.m.: Sixty-six people are now feared to have drowned after the overloaded wooden boat carrying 97 illegal immigrants from Indonesia sank off Malaysia's western coast, Malaysian officials said.

Chinese authorities completed their task of removing yet another cross from a church today, nearly a week after a group of Christians tried to stop the government's anti-church campaign.

Boy finds man's mummified body dangling in closet of home about 5 years after hanged himself

Questions of how lessons from the last decade apply to the growing threat from Islamist extremists in Iraq

Johann 'Hans' Breyer is charged with 158 counts of aiding and abetting the deaths of 216,000 Jews at Auschwitz.

Move puts Clinton on the other side of Obama, the Pentagon and Claire McCaskill on the issue

'Glee' star Jane Lynch pulls off her tracksuit to make her cabaret debut in New York City

Pentagon says Iraqi army appears to be strengthening its position after rebels briefly hold areas close to capital.

Republicans investigating the possible targeting of Tea Party groups ridiculed reports of computer crashes.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, ex-State Department official Liz Cheney, re-entered the public debate about Iraq on Tuesday night, with a guest column in The Wall Street Journal lambasting President O...

American Airlines says it is cutting nearly 80% of its flights from the US to Venezuela in a dispute over tight currency controls.

An 18th Century tapestry looted by Nazis in World War Two is to be returned to a French château after being kept in Sheffield for 55 years

A 19th century British colonial stamp – last owned by a crazed millionaire killer – went for a record $9.48 million at auction Tuesday night in New York. The 1856...

One suspect has been cleared, two others still face murder charges in case.

Experts at Nice say using anticoagulants, not antiplatelets like aspirin, could avert 7,000 strokes and 2,000 deaths a year Aspirin should no longer be used to try to prevent strokes in people with a common heart rhythm ...

The Qhapaq 'an, which winds thousands of miles down the Pacific Coast of South America, has been recommended for recognition as a World Heritage site.