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The Fragrant Harbor was passed from British to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997. Today, it's still torn between its Western-style freedoms and the Beijing model.

One week after the final chapter in the Penn State child sexual-abuse scandal seemed almost complete with the multiple convictions of the university's football team's retired defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, emails dating to 2001 have surfaced about the role of former head coach Joe Paterno.

It's no secret that romance novels have appealed to women for decades. So what is the appeal of these fantastical stories?

Nash officially becomes a free agent Sunday morning at 12:01 a.m. ET.

Katie Holmes is seeking sole custody of daughter Suri in her divorce filing against husband Tom Cruise. It's unclear whether Cruise intends to fight Holmes over Suri, but the odds appear to be stacked against him should he battle Katie Holmes for custody of their 6-year-old daughter.

A medical examiner concluded that 11-year-old Ashton Jojo of New York was electrocuted at a miniature golf course near Orlando while trying to retrieve a ball from a pond.

Bernard Madoff?s brother Peter finally peladed guilty Friday to conspiracy to commit a single count of securities fraud and another of falsifying records.

When one thinks about the top celebrity fashionistas, it's inevitable that both Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City Sarah Jessica Parker and former Spice Girls member Posh Victoria Beckham come to mind, as both dress impeccably and have had their own clothing lines at one point or another. But can you imagine the duo collaborating on a women's fashion clothing line?

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced this morning he'd raised over $4 million since yesterday morning and is riding the wave with a footage of Hillary Clinton attacking President Obama.

Two Los Angeles police officers accused of leaking a photo of pop star Rihanna's bruised face after a fight with her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown won't face charges, although they still may be fired, news reports said.

Reginald Reg Traviss, the boyfriend of late singer Amy Winehouse, has been charged with two counts of rape after allegations were made against him in January.

As expected, the New York City Council voted Thursday evening to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of a measure that would raise the minimum wage of employees of some companies that receive public subsidies to $11.50 an hour, or $10 an hour with benefits.

With their only pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, the New York Knicks took Kostas Papanikolaou from Greece.

The nation's biggest public hospital system says that although health care reform means people will have insurance, this will not make up for the loss of Medicaid funds.

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act led by President Barack Obama, people like 59-year-old freelance writer Gail Richardson could be eligible for insurance under an expanded Medicaid program for low-income earners now that the highest U.S. court has rejected a challenge to the law's constitutionality.

More than two decades after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced renowned author Salman Rushdie to death over blasphemy in his book, Satanic Verses, a video game has been developed by a government-sponsored Iranian student body that intends to carry out the fatwa, but in the virtual world.

Crude oil futures rallied during Asian trading hours Friday after European Union leaders agreed on support for Spain and Italy.

Scandal-tarred former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair have separated, a magazine reports.

The Knicks need to move Amar'e Stoudemire.

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion will fire nearly a third of its 16,500 employees in a bid to stay alive for another nine months so that it can finally launch the BlackBerry 10.

The FDA has approved the first new weight-loss pill in more than a decade: Belviq, a long term anti-obesity drug produced by Arena Pharmaceuticals.