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The University of West Georgia graduate student infected with rare "flesh-eating" bacteria has proven to be "amazingly resilient," her father said Wednesday, and a second apparent case has been reported.

Skechers agreed to pay a hefty $40 million fine to settle charges of deceiving consumers by making "unfounded claims" that its Shape-ups shoes would help people "lose weight, and strengthen and tone their buttocks, legs and abdominal muscles," the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.

Some 88% of social workers think cuts are putting vulnerable children's lives at risk, a survey five years after the death of baby Peter Connolly suggests.

A team of speed flyers have become the world's first to successfully descend Italy's Mount Etna.

Old home movies are being used to help trigger the forgotten past of people with dementia and other memory loss.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Democratic territory with high unemployment, went after Republican Mitt Romney's business background Wednesday and cast him as a corporate raider more interested in profits than people....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A jury's acquittal Wednesday of a former Houston police officer in the alleged beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect during a videotaped arrest upset black community leaders who criticized the verdict as unjust and racist....

HOUSTON (AP) -- A jury's acquittal Wednesday of a former Houston police officer in the alleged beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect during a videotaped arrest upset black community leaders who criticized the verdict as unjust and racist....

BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead at the family property Wednesday....

Social media is already passé in Silicon Valley. America's innovation engine is now focused on transportation, energy and manufacturing.

A petition is to go to the Queen asking her to set aside legislation that punished Jacobite sympathisers and all their descendants.

Japan's economy grows by 1.0% between January and March compared with the previous three months, official figures show.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone....

Baby time-lapses are becoming increasingly common. So are they the ultimate way of documenting a child's development?

More than 60 academics from across the world gather in Scotland to examine the literary merits of the Harry Potter novels.

A subsea turbine which uses tidal power to generate electricity has successfully completed initial tests off Orkney.

A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Astmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce has pulled in the biggest audience of his career, according to new figures from Rajar.

Mexicans pay their last respects to Carlos Fuentes