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Amid the Boston Marathon bombings, meme-makers flooded Facebook and Twitter with words of encouragement courtesy of the late Fred Rogers.

Conspiracy theorists are running amok around the tragedy. Essam el-Erian rehashes a classic: There's a mystery hand behind it.

The $33 billion deal would make Glencore the world’s fourth-largest mining company. China had raised concerns over that.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad has resigned in what could be a major blow to peace process negotiations with Israel.

Russia released a list of alleged human rights violators after the United States passed the Magnitsky Act, but trade will keep the two together.

It walks like a recession, it sounds like a recession, it looks like a recession ... and it's a recovery?

A Seattle jury ruled that IMDb, the Amazon-owned movie portal, did no wrong by publishing the age of actress Junie Hoang.

Mali doesn't have enough donor aid to meet its needs this year. And it may be running low on foresight, too.

In its oil market report, OPEC cited renewed concern about the euro zone and Japanese economies.

A series of announcements this week confirms the link between al-Qaeda and jihadist rebels in Syria, leaving secular FSA fighters in a bind.

Margaret Thatcher has been mourned all over the world, but eyes are dry in Argentina due to Falkland Islands disputes.

Here are five of the most shocking "Mad Men" moments during the television show's first five seasons.

The No Kill Advocacy Center has charged PETA with unnecessarily euthanizing animals.

Both movies and journalism have irrevocably changed. When Roger Ebert passed away on Thursday, he took film criticism with him.

Women's-rights activists Humaira Bachal, Khalida Brohi and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy spoke along with Malala Yousafzai at a conference.

African and American forces have suspended their operation to rout the LRA, just the U.S. offered a bounty of $5 million for Joseph Kony.

CNN's temporary roundtable show "(Get To) The Point" attracted poor ratings and barrage of Twitter derision. Bad news for Jeff Zucker?

Verizon's quest to buy Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless is back to Square One.

A new letter reveals that Britain's 'Queen of Spies' Daphne Park admitted to MI6's role in the 1961 Congo assassination of Patrice Lumumba.

Narendra Modi, the chief minister of India’s Gujarat state, was inducted into the topmost decision-making body of BJP, Sunday.

On the Google News blog, a senior Google official sent a warning to publishers about mixing sponsored content with news.

Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are hoping for a ratings boost with the War on Easter, but will it be as successful as the War on Christmas?

Learn all the scary facts about the "Monsanto Protection Act," which opponents call the Farmer Assurance Provision, which Congress approved as part of a spending bill that Obama has signed.

The pink equal sign campaign went viral on Facebook and Twitter among gay-marriage supporters, but some critics saw it as empty slacktivism.

As the dust from the Cyprus financial rescue settles, an altered landscape is emerging.

U.S. job growth has accelerated to more than 200,000 per month. But why did it take so long?

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt visited Myanmar, or Burma, this week. But is the repressive country ready to get connected?

Frank Dietl, a 76-year-old New Jerseyan, filed a lawsuit against TV's Dr. Mehmet Oz, stirring debate over the validity of celebrity doctors.

Egypt and India have little in common, but a closer relationship could propel surprising growth for both countries.