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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for "stupid" high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. His swift response reflected the Republican presidential candidate's recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny following President Barack Obama's embrace of gay marriage....

Why UK's Brazilians feel the urge to return home

Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's spiralling sculpture in the heart of the Olympic Park is being unveiled on Friday.

Major UK-based firms cut secret deals with authorities in Luxembourg to avoid paying millions in corporate tax in Britain, a BBC Panorama investigation finds.

The celebrated Associated Press combat photographer Horst Faas, known for his decade of work during the Vietnam War, dies at 79.

The UN Security Council condemns bomb attacks which killed at least 55 people near an intelligence complex in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US bank, reveals a surprise trading loss of $2bn (£1.2bn) on complex investments made by its traders.

Microsoft is revamping its Bing search engine to include advice from Facebook and other social media platforms.

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MOUNT HOLLY — Jurors in New Jersey have delivered a mixed verdict at the trial of a marijuana activist who lives in California and goes by the name "NJWeedman."

The panel in Mount Holly on Wednesday convicted Ed Forchion of possession of a pound of pot in the ...

The BBC has been given an exclusive demonstration of how the technology of robot avatar 'beaming' works, allowing a kind of 'physical' interaction at a distance.

Infowars.com | The contest entries roll on, with unstoppable human consciousness seeking to understand and stop the tyranny enveloping the globe.

Americans consume 80% of opiate pain-killers produced in the world, according to congressional testimony by the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

Wanda Butts dropped the phone and screamed when she heard the news that her son was dead.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says....

NY Times | Japan is ready to nationalize Tokyo Electric Power under a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) bailout plan.

Kurt Nimmo | Ron Paul has a plan to reduce a large chunk of the debt.

ATLANTA (AP) -- The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through....

DORE, N.D. — For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.

As Dore's only residents, they lived in a ghost town on the desolate northern Plains. But now the Finsaases have neighbors - lots of them. ...

New details are emerging about the man sent by Saudi counterterrorism agents into Yemen as a mole when it emerged that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was developing another airline bomb plot.

The undercover agent who infiltrated al-Qaeda and foiled an "underwear bomb" plot was a British man of Middle Eastern origin, US reports say.