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Scientists are scrambling to develop a universal flu vaccine that will protect against all strains of influenza. Some pharmaceutical companies say that vaccine could be available as soon as 2014.

Following the Earthquake Sunday, Israel offered aid and anything from food, medicine, medical staff and equipment to search-and-rescue teams, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, according to Reuters.

More than 200 people were confirmed killed and hundreds more feared dead on Monday after an earthquake hit parts of southeast Turkey, with rescue teams working until morning to free survivors crying out for help from under rubble.

More than 200 people were confirmed killed and hundreds more feared dead after an earthquake hit parts of southeast Turkey Sunday with rescue teams working through the night to free trapped survivors.

More than 100 people were confirmed killed and hundreds more feared dead Sunday when a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey, flattening buildings and leaving survivors crying for help from under the rubble.

Hundreds have died and thousands remain trapped after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Turkey, and survivors are calling on the Turkish government to provide aid, including food, shelter and medical supplies, as aftershocks continue to rock Ercis, Van and Celebibag. Turkey is frequently hit by earthquakes, but many feel the call for better building regulations and search and rescue strategies has gone unanswered.

New films from international auteurs Bela Tarr, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hong Sang-Soo, Chantal Akerman, Jean-Marc Vallee and Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos will come to Los Angeles for the upcoming AFI Fest 2011, festival organizers announced on Friday.

Noble Energy reported a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street expectations, helped by higher-than-expected production and prices.

The Republican National Committee criticized Democrats for ignoring anti-Semitic remarks caught on tape at Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

Bringing an end to an eight-month war backed by NATO, revolutionary fighters overran the hometown of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, 69, killing him and stripping his bloodied boy for display, Reuters reported.

Stuxnet was first discovered by the security company VirusBlokAda in June 2010.

When Susan Sarandon called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi, numerous religious groups condemned the actress, and rightly so. In a bizarre and disturbing twist, however, Sarandon's notoriety has now spread to her support of Occupy Wall Street, with many grouping her comments and her activism as examples of liberal ignorance and hypocrisy. In the process, we lose the opportunity to condemn the use of rampant Nazi and Hitler comparisons in general, a widespread phenomenon recorded en ma...

A roundup of factual statements from Tuesday night's feisty GOP debate that were either questionable or completely untrue.

164 Palestinian children are imprisoned in Israeli jails, some on charges as minor as throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.

The PRC kidnapped Shalit, then a 19-year-old soldier, five years ago in Gaza.

Pictures of a one-eyed shark met with skepticism but was proved by scientists to be genuine.

The images of the one-eyed Cyclops shark that surfaced recently on the web have been confirmed real and not photo-shopped by shark researchers.

The GOP presidential hopefuls -- except for former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman -- came together yet again to debate in Nevada Tuesday. Former Massachusetts Gov. Romney deftly neutralized the attacks, even using them to make presidential-sounding comments aimed at general election voters.

From Perry calling Romney's immigration stance the height of hypocrisy, to Paul taking on Cain in Occupy Wall Street, to Bachmann thinking Libya is outside of Africa, the Oct. 18 debate was a no-holds-barred slugfest. See the top 10 battles of the night, and the killer quotes that epitomized (and dramatized) the fiery arguments.

First there was the Stuxnet computer virus that wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program. Now comes Duqu, which researchers on Tuesday said appears to be quite similar.

Nearly 500 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel on Tuesday, all in exchange for detained Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.