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Armenians around the world marked the 97th anniversary of the genocide that killed an estimated 1.5 million people in 1915 during Ottoman rule.

On April 24, a group of wealthy entrepreneurs, including Google Inc. executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron, formed a new business venture to survey and extract rare metals and minerals from asteroids.

A fat cat named Meow, 2, who weighs 39 pounds and 10 ounces took a trip from a Santa Fe animal shelter for his big debut on The Today Show on Monday with his veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Steketee, who is helping the obese cat drop some pounds before adoption. View photos of the tubby tabby.

There's been a lot of hype surrounding the next Call of Duty title, which is said to be a follow-up to 2010's widely popular Black Ops. However, recent leak indicates that Treyarch may have something different up its sleeve.

B. Robert Williamson, portfolio manager at Chilton Investment Co., was found dead in his car Sunday in North Carolina. He was 55.

Debbie Stevens, a New York based kidney donor, was fired after donating her organ to her boss. Now the 47-year-old divorced mom of two is demanding her kidney back in a lawsuit.

Kurt Aaron, a meteorologist in Scranton, Pennsylvania, was just about to give his local weather report on Monday evening when he was interrupted by a four black bears - a mother bear and her three cubs - in an episode caught on video which scared the weatherman to death.

Consumer confidence fell slightly in April, the second straight monthly decline, as a stuttering economic recovery kept purse strings tight, according to a survey released Tuesday.

An angry mob brutally attacked a man in front of his house after he told a group of kids to to stop playing basketball on Saturday night. Matthew Owens was hit with bricks, chairs, pipes and paint cans on his own front porch in Alabama by a group of 20 people who reportedly stated, That's justice for Trayvon, after they were done beating Owens to within an inch of his life.

Mining asteroids for natural resources could make space travel cheaper, Planetary Resources Inc., a startup company backed by several billionaires, said on Tuesday.

Police haven't revealed what it is, but a clue towards the whereabouts of a missing Arizona girl was found by FBI dogs on Monday, ABC News Reported.

Third Circuit Judge Wade McCree, who specializes in sexual misconduct cases, feels no remorse for texting a shirtless photo of himself to one of his female colleagues, even though it may cost him his job.

Lyudmila Putin seems to have disappeared from public view, and the Kremlin is tight-lipped about her whereabouts. Relatively little is known about Lyudmila, but these photos give us a rare glimpse into her past.

Joran Van Der Sloot, the man accused of killing Natalee Holloway, could be extradited to the United States from Peru within the next three months to face criminal charges.

James Murdoch, the son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, testified on Tuesday in a London courtroom that he had no idea of the illegal practices at the News of the World newspaper - but would have ended them if he had.

Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway who is in a Peruvian prison on a 28-year sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores, may be extradited to the United States to face trial for allegedly extorting Natalee's mother.

The 400-year-old diamond, the Beau Sancy, is expected to sell for $4 million at an auction at Sotheby's. The Beau Sancy, which weighs 34.98 carats, is one of the world's oldest diamonds with a rare cut in the shape of a pear.

Sarah Burge, known as the Human Barbie for the immense amount of plastic surgery procedures she has underwent, first made headlines for giving her seven-year-old daughter Poppy gift certificates for breast implants and liposuction. Now, the 51-year-old mother has plans to hold children's parties in a Botox clinic to give young girls the wow factor through makeovers. The makeovers would be held at the clinic where typically cosmetic injections and plastic surgery are performed ...

Mark Abaire was unable to post bond after he was arrested on felony theft charges for allegedly filling a cup of soda worth $1 from a Florida McDonald's and not paying for it.

Manning's defense lawyer has submitted several motions calling for the alleged WikiLeaks source's release from military prison.

After winning a $1 million Powerball lottery, a woman in Virginia struck gold the second time running on the same day, Reuters reported.Virginia Fike, a resident from Berryville, was in possession of two Powerball tickets from the fourteen winning ones that were entitled to $1 million each. This 44-year old discovered her luck, while she was watching TV on one of her visits to her sick mother at the hospital.I saw a scroll on TV about t

An old Chinese woman with bunch of empty beer bottles was stopped at the Sha Tau Kok border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen for smuggling more than 200 iPhone 4S into China hidden inside the bottles. The Chinese custom officials at the Sha Tau Kok border caught the woman who claimed that she was taking the empty beer bottles from recycling.

A disgruntled 4-year-old Saudi boy fatally shot his father for not buying him a PlayStation, media reports said.

Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer, is the founder of the modern-day zipper.

A soccer ball found washed up on the shores of Alaska's Middleton Island will be returned to its rightful owner: a Japanese teenager named Misaki Murakami, who lost all of his worldly possessions during last year's tsunami.

It looks like Rihanna may have finally had enough when it comes to Chris Brown and the drama surrounding their much criticized on-again-off-again relationship. Now it turns out that the R&B star will be retreating to London for the summer where she's lined up a few concerts and is overseeing a new reality show, far away from Chris Brown and his current girlfriend Karrueche Tran.

Christine Bolden of Muskegon, Michigan suffered two brain aneurysms on March 6. She collapsed, and was later pronounced brain dead. But a month later, she gave birth to twin boys Alexander and Nicholas.

On Friday, more than 1,300 employees of Aviva Investors, an investment firm based in London, walked into their offices, strolled over to their desks, booted up their computers and checked their emails, only to learn the shocking news: They would be leaving the company.

The world's biggest McDonald's will open its doors to the public at the London Olympics for a six week-only period, according to the Daily Mirror.