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Peter Bevelin’s first book, Seeking Wisdom from Darwin to Munger, is a one of the best books you’ve never heard of. He’s just released another book, A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes (Kindle), aimed at those who w...

Everything is not awesome between Lego and Ai Weiwei

A Vietnamese woman undergoes laser surgery to repair scarring on her face.

Multibillionaire real estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump -- who has repeatedly boasted that he is funding his own run for the presidency -- says his father gave him a "small loan" of $1 mi...

For months, Europe has been dealing with a massive influx of migrants from Africa and the Middle East. Thousands have made the dangerous, often fatal journey across land and sea, fleeing the violence and poverty of their...

"The immediate imperative is to provide shelter"

The dissident artist should know better than to call Lego's refusal to sell him bricks censorship. And what are these 'questionable values' he's talking about? The dissident artist Ai Weiwei has finally found a target, o...

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The hunt was organized to stabilize the bear population

Canadian authorities: 5 dead after whale watching vessel sinks off British Columbia

Resurgent tensions between the two powers hark back to Cold War times

Did getting behind the wheel drunk cost four people attending a homecoming parade their lives -- including a 2-year-old boy?

More than 120 people were injured when a high-speed ferry traveling from the Asian gambling hub of Macau to Hong Kong slammed into an object floating in the water, authorities said Monday. …

A 98-year-old South Korean man took off his black coat and muffler and gave them to his coughing North Korean son on Monday as they parted again -- likely for good after briefly reuniting for the first time since war tor...

Old issues and new ones haunt the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo as proceedings grind on

John Kerry, the Energizer Bunny of U.S. foreign policy, has once again taken on mission impossible. The U.S. secretary of state is back on the road trying to defuse several weeks of violent confrontation between Israelis...

Evaluations of Hillary Clinton's recent winning performances -- first in the Democratic debate and then in Thursday's Benghazi hearing -- have focused largely on her mastery of issues as well as her quick retorts and ste...

A deaf and mute Indian woman who accidently crossed the border into Pakistan as a child 12 years ago left for New Delhi on Monday hoping to be reunited with her family, a spokesman for a Pakistani charity said. …

Voting appeared orderly and largely peaceful in presidential and parliamentary elections that Haitians hope will help consolidate democracy in this impoverished country with a history of political turbulence. …

A defector working to stir up resistance back home is so sure Kim Jong-un's days are numbered that he has already planned his celebrations North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho has a plan. When Kim Jong-un falls from power -...

A disabled man had to crawl off a United Airlines plane after a flight because there was no wheelchair. United apologized to the man, who has cerebral palsy.