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A mild earthquake rocked parts of Kashmir Monday Morning, according to Indian Meteorological Department.

The 30-minute Kony 2012 video by San Diego-based charity Invisible Children went viral last week promoted further by social media endorsements and campaigns by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey.

Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to increase the mandatory paid vacation to six weeks from four per year in a sign of support for the austerity measures that European countries need to follow.

Meryl Streep's heart felt tribute to Hillary Clinton at the Women in the World Summit on Saturday almost played out like an audition as well as a celebration.

Most of us are familiar with the variety of scrumptious Girl Scout cookies, including Samoas and Thin Mints. Here are five facts that you may not know about the Girl Scouts.

On Sunday morning many people were asking, What time is it? Daylight Saving Time 2012 began on Sunday, March 11, 2012, at 2 a.m. Clocks were pushed forward to welcome spring.

What time is? It is daylight savings time and if you didn't spring forward your clock an hour before bed on Saturday, you may need to do so now to adjust to the 2012 time change.

Two teenagers from Texas are arrested for stealing money from a group of Girl Scouts, who were selling cookies outside a local Walmart store in Richmond, Texas, Saturday.

Mark Twain would have been amused by the remarks of new Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook last week when he announced the post-PC era. As Twain observed after reading his obituary, The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Japan is observing the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami on Sunday with prayers and anti- nuclear rallies.

Spanx founder Sara Blakeley recently made it onto the Forbes World's Billionaires 2012 list, following the success of her company's line of shapewear clothing products. In an on-camera interview with Forbes, the 41-year-old business mogul talks about the philosophy and life experiences that helped her succeed.

Ever since Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road was released in the 1950's, many wondered when a film adaptation would be developed. Yet decades passed before Hollywood could bring the classic tale to the big screen.

Just when you thought the saga of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' failed relationship had finally come to an end, the latest in a series of rumors about their divorce has surfaced. Humphries is reportedly demanding that Kardashian cough up $7 million before they go their separate ways.

Singer Britney Spears grew up in the public eye, allowing people everywhere to watch her success, as well as her psychotic and frightening meltdown. Spears is back on top though, having a successful tour for her album Femme Fatale, recently getting engaged to Jason Trawick, and rumored to be joining The X Factor. While we'd love to celebrate her recent success and happiness, it's hard not to look back on the times where she once shaved her head and wore a pink wig.

Beloved 1960s drama Mad Men will return to AMC after a hiatus that has gone on for over a year. Show creator Matthew Weiner, and the rest of his team, have been extremely protective of the show's upcoming plot lines and secrets in the past, but it seems they're so excited about the new season that they have begun to leak information and hints about what the 'Mad Men' characters will do in the fifth season, which premieres on March 25 at 9:00 p.m. EST with a 2-hour-long, plus-...

Saudi Crown Prince Nayef, a pivotal figure who supervises the daily affairs of the kingdom, is undergoing routine tests at the renowned Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Saudi television and hospital sources said on Friday.

Researchers in the US and China have found the earliest known evolutionary evidence of Iridescent feathers through a new fossil study of a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur called Microraptor.

An 11—year-old girl and 5-year-old boy in Texas were found living in alone in an abandoned school bus after their parents were sent to prisons in 2010.

With Japan observing the one-year anniversary of its extraordinarily deadly 3/11 triple disaster on Sunday, the English-language online sites of three of the country's largest-circulation newspapers are all now covering various aspects of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns associated with last March 11.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn had to be whisked away in a police car to escape the wrath of women's rights activists after a speech engagement at the Cambridge University.

The fiscal downturn has hit Wall Street executives where it hurts most --their wallets -- and locales dependent upon their income rank as collateral damage.

Linsanity has reached an all-time high: Rick Ross, the XL-sized rapper, recently endorsed a marijuana strand named Jeremy Lin OG in a tweet. Took @stalley shopping, tweeted Ross. The picture that was attached to the tweet was a large jar of marijuana nuggets. The label of the jar read: Lin Sanity OG.

Is bankruptcy stressing out the American Airlines crew? A Friday flight from Dallas to Chicago was delayed when a disgruntled flight attendant began ranting about bankruptcy, plane crashes and terrorist attacks over the intercom system.

The new iPad boasts a lot of new features, giving the gaming community a lot to be excited about. With the most advanced graphic techniques and the sharpest images on the market, players could consider putting down the Xbox controller and picking up Apple’s new product.

Nostalgic gamers from the 90s are in for a treat with the revamped “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD.” No official date has been set for the game’s release, but between this week’s Game Developers Conference and recent interviews with the man himself, some details about the skateboarding sensation have been revealed.

During a flight from San Francisco to San Diego, one of SeaWorld's rising stars walked down the aisle of a Southwest flight--a Magellanic penguin named Pete. Seaworld brought some of the Magellanic penguins to a National Science Convention in San Francisco and thought it would be a good idea to let them walk around on the plane during the short flight. They even let the penguins out of their cage at the airport gate prior to departure.

Rihanna and Chris Brown have been making headlines ever since RiRi left her ex-and-possibly-secret-boyfriend's dressing room at the Grammys sporting a coy smile and looking somewhat disheveled. Recent rumors spread by RiRi's friends suggest that the two have been secretly dating for a year and are planning to marry by the end of March. Meanwhile RiRi is engaged in a full-on social media war with Brown's current girlfriend, Karrueche, and Brown is facing a possible arrest for reportedly ...

Wells Fargo recently announced that it will be instituting a $7 monthly service fee for checking accounts in six eastern states, adding to the 23 states where the fee is already in place. There are a few ways to avoid this fee.

McDonald's came under heavy fire in February when Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution exposed the company's use of boneless lean beef trimmings, aka pink slime in their chicken nuggets. Now recent reports suggest that pink slime may have made its way 70 percent of U.S. supermarkets.