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Barack Obama's chances of winning second term boosted by jobless claimant figures hitting four-year low.

On the anniversary of the Bahrain uprising, Anonymous hackers have targeted Combined Systems, defacing the weapons maker's site.

The 136th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show kickstarted on Monday, at Madison Square Garden in New York.

There is apparently a purple-coloured squirrel running around Jersey Shore. The only problem is... no one knows how this mysterious creature got its peculiar pigment.

Republican rivals claim nomination for presidential candidate still up for grabs as frontrunner's relatively weak vote tally revealed.

Rick Santorum's surprise wins in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri means two things.

Punxsutawney Phil's, the groundhog in Pennsylvania, U.S. predicted winter for six more weeks. There had been instances where animals have been used to predict the future. While several people perished in the 2004 Tsunami, dogs, buffaloes, goats were all unharmed. There were reports that animals sensed the tsunami long before people became aware of it.

Every year, on February 2, Phil comes out of his burrow on Gobbler's Knob, to predict the weather for the rest of the season.

Christian organisation Family Leader president says Mitt Romney will not be Republican nominee despite leading polls.

Front-runner Mitt Romney and his Republican presidential pursuers have entered into the final full day of campaigning

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Actor Mark Wahlberg has apologised over comments saying he could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

Oscar Ortega-Hernandez accused of firing shots into White House to kill President Obama.

Mitt Romney leads pack of six Republican runners in nomination race for the White House.

Marry the Night singer and Taylor Kinney have been house-hunting, according to reports.

Mitt Romney scrapes through first race in Republican nomination for US presidential candidate by eight votes.

Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum lead pack for 120,000 voters in Iowa caucuses.

Popstar Lady Gaga has brought her British chauffeur a year's supply of nappies after hearing he was about to become a dad for the first time.

Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced Wednesday they had decided to stop efforts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row after being convicted of killing a police officer 30 years ago.

A breakaway Amish cult in Ohio headed by leader Samuel Mullet terrorised the local Amish population by forcibly cutting the hair of men and women in night-time raids.

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, charged with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama by firing shots at the White House, believed President was the "anti-Christ."

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier has died.

NASA scientists have warned we should curb our greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent aliens from attacking and potentially blowing us up, according to a new report, the Guardian reported.

Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, has appointed its first Chief Financial Officer.

As further information emerges following Amy Winehouse's untimely death, the issue of whether addicts should be vaccinated to help them recover remains largely unresolved.

Shares in Centrica were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the energy company said its North American subsidiary, Direct Energy, would be acquiring energy retailer Gateway Energy Services Corporation for $90 million.

Presenting a look at the list of top 5 national universities in terms of the proportion of undergraduate students who have internship experience and the support available to them.