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A Montreal teacher has been suspended for showing his 10th grade students the killing and dismemberment video allegedly filmed by Canadian gay porn actor Luka Magnotta, the school board said on Wednesday

The NuSTAR telescope launched Wednesday will let scientists finally take the measure of black holes and provide an important new observatory for studying the cosmos, Meg Urry says.

CNN's Anderson Cooper mocks the ongoing Miss USA scandal in which a contestant claims the event was rigged.

An injured high school senior runs to his graduation after a car accident.

In a region saturated with spectacular aquamarine waters and bright coral reefs, the colorful Schaus swallowtail butterfly once was a familiar sight as it flitted over Biscayne National Park in South Florida.

Sweden's tourist board decided to try to drum up interest in the country recently by handing control of the national Twitter account to a different Swedish citizen every week.

New allegations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency could spell trouble for Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion.

The cycling champ says the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency intends to "dredge up discredited" doping allegations in a bid to strip him of his seven Tour de France victories.

CNN's Brooke Baldwin speaks to a writer about his article on killing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

The latest internet video features a voter who can't help but sing about his crush on Obama.

A Massachusetts town's recent ban on public swearing is a hopeless cause in a time when even mild-mannered Americans curse like sailors and the F-bomb fails to shock, John McWhorter writes.

Multiscreen gaming is emerging as a major trend as consumers increasingly access games through their PCs, consoles, tablets and smartphones.

The move comes less than two weeks after a jury acquitted the former presidential candidate on one of six counts in his corruption trial and deadlocked on the other five.

The U.N. peacekeeping chief says Syria is now in a civil war.

Turbulence forced a United Airlines flight bound for New York's LaGuardia Airport to land shortly after takeoff Tuesday night and sent five people to the hospital, a United spokeswoman confirmed.

An alleged criminal gang in Romania is caught on aerial surveillance video trying to pull off a heist on a moving truck.

An Iowa business says some of Mitt Romney's staff were arrogant, rude and messed up her cafe during a campaign stop.

A toddler who was thrown from an SUV during a high-speed chase in Lubbock, Texas, has been released from the hospital, police said Wednesday.

German police have released a photograph of the 17-year-old known only as "Ray" who turned up at Berlin City Hall last year after claiming to have been living in the woods for five years.