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About every two weeks, Rick Allen gets a series of thermal snapshots from high above Earth that show how water gets used across the western ...

A strong earthquake struck northern Italy early Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead, authorities said.

Jenna Talackova, the 23-year-old who forced Donald Trump to end a ban on transgender pageant contestants, fell short of the Miss Universe Canada title.

Didier Drogba scored the winner in a dramatic penalty shootout as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich Saturday to win the European Champions League for the first ...

Two suspects in a fatal bombing outside a school in Italy have been identified, a prosecutor said.

Protest erupts after all-white jury acquits ex-Houston cop over teen's beating... (Third column, 13th story, link) Related ...

Terminal Evacuated, 4 TSA Agents Treated For Respiratory Problems After Exposure To Aerosol Spray... (Third column, 15th story, link)

Dressed up as Martin Luther King for history project... (Third column, 11th story, link) Related stories: School ...

VIDEO: 'Justice for Trayvon Martin'... (Third column, 14th story, link) Related stories: Race Related Hate Crimes Up, ...

Race Related Hate Crimes Up, Coincide with Obama Presidency... (Third column, 12th story, link) Related stories: Protest ...

Jorge Lorenzo beats Valentino Rossi in France on a wet Le Mans track to go top of the MotoGP standings ahead of Casey Stoner.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person ever convicted in connection with the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has died at his home in Tripoli from cancer.

The Surrey town of Staines officially changes its name to Staines-upon-Thames in an attempt to boost its riverside image.

A service has taken place to dedicate a new memorial at Britain’s National Memorial Arboretum to the Britons who died in the Falklands War.

A bomb explodes in the Syrian capital Damascus, 150m from a convoy carrying the Norwegian general who heads the UN observer mission there.

The former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie, Scotland, bombing has died, according to reports. He was ...

Many Egyptians believe Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister to be corrupt. Yet Ahmed Shafiq, who is running for president in Egypt’s historic elections this month, ...

Out West Sunday, it will start getting dark earlier than normal, but just for a little while. A major solar eclipse, although not quite total, ...

World leaders are gathered in Chicago for a two-day NATO summit starting Sunday morning. This is the third time the U.S. has hosted a NATO ...

If life is a ballgame, then NPR’s Mike Pesca is the guy in the stands, carrying his own stat-sheet and searching out empirical evidence. Host ...

Washington, May 20 (IANS) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations have expressed “deep” and “grave” concern over the actions of ...

President Barack Obama leads a Group of Eight summit session Saturday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. The European debt crisis dominated the ...

U.S. troops are invading the blogosphere in increasing numbers to speak their minds about everything from the most mundane topics to the wars in Iraq ...

SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared “equality and justice have no boundaries” ...

US President Barack Obama has said there is an "emerging consensus" that European countries must now focus on jobs and growth. Speaking after the G8 ...

While Mitt Romney has said little about his Mormon faith on the campaign trail, people who know him well call it a huge influence on ...

President Robert G. Mugabe has begun pressuring companies operating in the country to comply with a law requiring that black Zimbabweans own more than half ...

The United States and Pakistan are not expected to secure a deal to reopen supply lines to Afghanistan before a NATO summit begins on Sunday, ...

An earthquake struck the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna on Sunday, killing five people, wounding dozens and damaging historic buildings as well as warehouses ...

Research shows that more than half of office workers are dissatisfied with the level of “speech privacy” in their offices, and managers are hearing their ...

When Magic Johnson announced to the world that he was infected with HIV in November of 1991, he instantly became the face of the virus. ...

This week, we’re watching as Egypt continues to prepare for its upcoming presidential elections, as candidates take to the podiums in the country’s first-ever public ...

Are practical jokes or pranks on an unsuspecting person permitted according to Jewish law? What about teasing someone or calling them by a nickname?

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Spoleto Festival USA opens its 36th season Friday and among the planned performances is an opera by American composer Philip Glass ...

NEW DELHI — Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan says his superstar son and daughter-in-law have named their baby girl Aaradhya. Speculation about the baby’s name had swirled ...

Scientists call ship one of the most well-preserved, as gin, wine bottles and muskets are found near the wreck

Police say Jonathan Hoffman, 17, was shot to death by his grandmother, 74, who he was living with 2 Arrested in Killings of USC Graduate ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg marries girlfriend of nine years in a surprise ceremony Facebook’s Overnight Millionaires Begin Lavish Spending Spree

Magnitude-6.0 earthquake, one of the strongest to hit northern Italy, kills at least four people, topples some buildings and sends residents running into the streets.

President Obama arrives in Chicago to collaborate with allies at NATO summit to discuss economy, Afghan war G-8 Warns North Korea About Further Provocations 3 ...

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MINNEAPOLIS—According to customers, a fiberglass sculpture of a fat mustachioed Italian stereotype recently placed in front of Gunther’s Pizza has provided irrefutable proof of the ...

Mr. World Peace changed his name last year in order to show he’d rejected the hooliganism that got him in trouble as Ron Artest, but ...