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For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once hunted to near extinction — appear to be thriving world-wide.
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One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his nine wives
A U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the “Spam King.”
“Lions hate circuses” has long been a bumper-sticker slogan of the animal-rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: the left-leaning government of the Andean country recently passed the world’s first legislation prohibiting...
A judge and five members of the same family were killed in the Iranian capital during a dispute, local media quoted judicial sources as saying.
The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.
The group, which includes two former U.S....
Barack Obama promised to allow gay servicemen and women to serve openly in the US military but left the gay community frustrated again yesterday after he refused to set a timetable for repealing the controversial “Don’t ask, don’t...
Signs of progress have emerged from two days of talks and Honduras’ rival factions plan to resume after a weekend break trying to resolve the bitter divide over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.
They say there is no such thing as a free lunch - but for years the majority of Cubans have been given free meals at state-run workplace canteens.
But in a bid to balance the budget, the Cuban authorities are about to abolish the scheme.
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Voters preparing to oust the weary old devil they know for a plausible young newcomer are apt to wonder if they’re making the right decision. When the newcomer is David Cameron, the smoothly enigmatic leader of the Conservatives, a party once so...
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