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When it comes to measuring the success or failure of cities, some statistics matter--and others don't.

What's with those asteroids that are streaming dust, just like a comet? One researcher explains how this could happen.

Want to bring a bottle of fancy bourbon to your next dinner party, but only have enough in your budget for the cheap stuff? The chefs at America's Test Kitchen discovered the best solution -- age it yourself, instantly....

When the Presidents of China and Taiwan shook hands on Saturday, they reached across a gap that has yawned between the two sides since 1949, in the wake of China's civil war.

The regional parliament of northeastern Catalonia is due to vote on a proposal by secessionist parties that hold a majority in the chamber to set up a road map for independence from Spain by 2017. …

Myanmar's Suu Kyi hints at election win, tells supporters not to provoke losing rivals

The Tag Heuer Connected is meant for the luxury market

AMMAN, Jordan -- A Jordanian policeman opened fire Monday on foreign trainers at a police compound, killing two Americans and a South African before being shot dead, the government spokesman said. The shooter also wounde...

WATERTOWN, Wis. -- A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed Sunday, spilling less than 1,000 gallons of crude oil and prompting evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state. Th...

A 14-year-old girl is arrested after an 87-year-old woman was punched on a bus in south London.

MARIANA, Brazil

Foragers discover the man, who showed them his passport to prove his identity, in Tuscany after he was declared dead in 2010

A Jordanian police officer killed two Americans and a South African at police training facility near Amman, Jordan's official Petra news agency reports. CNN's Phil Black has more.

Parliamentary poll could see opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi come to power after decades of military rule.

WASHINGTON

In some areas level of harmful particles in the air were 56 times the levels considered safe by the World Health Organisation Residents of north-eastern China donned gas masks and locked themselves indoors on Sunday afte...

Public figures criticize those who say that minorities have been suffering under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government

Since mid-September, 11 Israelis and 74 Palestinians have been killed in fighting

Australian officials try to contain unrest at remote immigration detention center

Authorities: 4 killed, 14 hurt as van, pickup crash near Washington, DC, pickup catches fire

A detainee at Australia's Christmas Island immigration centre, where a major disturbance is taking place, says inmates started rioting after a detainee escaped and died.

At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. He is also among the most accomplished. In 1999, while still a high-school student, in Des Moines, Zhang ...