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Oslo - Powerful explosions shook central Oslo on Friday afternoon, blowing out the windows of several government buildings, including one housing the office of the Norwegian prime minister. The …

London - Testimony by James Murdoch about Britain’s phone hacking scandal came under renewed scrutiny on Friday with Prime Minister David Cameron saying that Mr. Murdoch still had “questions …

High-resolution aerial survey photograph of the fly-ash sludge spill that resulted in December 2008 when a dike failed at the Kingston, Tennessee, power plant. Over a billion gallons of …

"You can't breathe, you can't sleep," said White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, as she described the stress of worrying about an aging parent who needs assistance, and explained …

A parliamentary panel investigating Britain's spreading phone hacking scandal accused the Murdoch empire on Wednesday of "deliberate attempts" to thwart its investigations. The House of Commons home …

The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter public high schools across the country and cajole the teenagers they meet into …

New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street. (Photo: kainet) The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is broke. We can’t afford to pay …

Cynthia Walter, an ecologist at St. Vincent College outside Pittsburgh, gets a lot of emails from local wildlife enthusiasts asking about "this bird" or "that amphibian." But …

British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to hold an emergency session of Parliament on Wednesday to discuss the growing phone-hacking scandal that has threatened Rupert Murdoch’s media …

As poverty remains a serious plague throughout South Eastern Europe and the Balkans, especially Albania, rural women who have migrated to urban areas are one of the most vulnerable …