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Americans might be surprised to learn that majority rule is a terrible way to decide most elections. Among other things, shrewd voters can manipulate majority rule by voting against their true preferences. Fortunately, c...

A transgender woman murdered and cooked by her husband in their swank Australian apartment was a “high-class” prostitute using profits from sex work to support her family in Indonesia. Mayang Prasetyo...

If you think your city is the best place to live, know this: There are over 500 other cities in the country with residents who probably feel the same way. And yet, only five locations actually come out on top. From high ...

Sky News Special Correspondent Alex Crawford joins burial teams doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

Getting sick is not a crime, so how do we bridge the divide between protecting the public's health and preserving individual civil liberties?

New cracks have been discovered in one of the reactors at the Hunterston B nuclear power station in Ayrshire, the BBC learns.

Activists appear to be standing their ground outside Hong Kong government HQ despite the passing of a deadline to clear the area.

A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against militants of the Islamic State group near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane on Sunday, killing an unknown number of people, according to the Syri...

Smoke rises from Kobani as the city's defenders look for escape routes from ISIS militants who are closing in with weapons and night-vision goggles.

Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff is facing a second round run-off in the election after a surge by rival Aecio Neves.

Doctor Gilbert Mobley wore a hazmat suit and strolled through the world's busiest airport to make a point about Ebola.

Photojournalist who became ill while working in W Africa begins journey as state of patient in Dallas remains critical.

The 25-year-old who has dual UK-Iranian citizenship has been held in a Tehran jail since trying to watch a men's volleyball match.

The state that once embraced the nation's toughest three-strikes law is now searching for a way to scale back its heavy reliance on incarceration.

Typhoon in Japan washes 3 American airmen out to sea; separate storm whips Marianas Islands

Spaniards have been building "castells" since the 18th century.

This is Phelps' second DUI arrest in ten years

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a 19-year-old from the Chicago suburbs, was reportedly arrested by FBI agents Saturday evening at the city's O'Hare International Airport for allegedly attempting to travel to Turkey and join the Is...

A Japanese tourist visiting India is reportedly suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus that is wreaking havoc across West Africa and causing scares from Dallas to France. Kawakubo Yuko, 27, was visiting Imphal, the...

A Bronx-bred City College grad has won the world's top honor in science, snagging the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering "an inner GPS, in the brain," that makes navigation...

Here I was, a new mom, and I had apparently made a serious, baby-killing mistake

The State Fair icon adds a note on sanitation to his standard folksy greeting.