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The horrific video footage of a two-year-old Chinese toddle being run over twice and then ignored by a passer-by has shocked and stunned the world.

Kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians will return home Tuesday in an exchange with the Hamas movement that rules Gaza that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a historic deal.

Dan Wheldon's tragic death on Sunday shocked the sports world. However, according to posts on his blog, the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner was frustrated with his car before the race.

Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity came under major threat when a team of physicists ran almost 15,000 beams to show neutrinos move 60 nanoseconds faster than light. The finding was overwhelming but raised question about the experiment itself.

This Sunday the entire America turned pink and witnessed more than 3, 800 people to walk, cry, hug, and finally raise money for the breast cancer patients and survivors in Utica.

The Tyrannosaurus rex, a dinosaur that lived more than 70 million years ago, grew up much faster and were fiercer predators than originally thought, a recent study conducted by a team of British and U.S. scientists reveals.

Radioactive element radium-226 is responsible for radiation hotspots in Tokyo, not the Fukushima Daiichi reactor, according to experts.

Einstein's general theory of relativity came under attack last week when physicists reported that neutrinos can travel faster than light. However, a team of Denmark astrophysicists has claimed to have validated Einstein's theory by studying the cosmic world.

Tevatron, the world's second largest particle accelerator, is about to be closed this Friday, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.). The reason for the decision to close is assumed to be the present American financial crunch.

The death toll caused by Listeria increased to 16, reports CBS News.

Purdue University professor Rakesh Agarwal will receive the U.S. National Medal for Technology and Innovation, the highest national honor for technological achievement, the White House said Tuesday.

The strong solar storm that reached the Earth on Monday has shrouded our planet with cosmic rays and high-energy particles that can prove to be hazardous to astronauts and airline passengers in coming days, space scientists have warned.

Richard Tapia, the Rice University professor of engineering, computing and applied mathematics, will receive the National Medal of Science, the highest national honor for U.S. scientists, the White House announced on Tuesday.

The bi-national health insurance was Perry’s one ambitious plan to provide Texas-funded coverage for both U.S. and Mexican border residents. Perry wanted to implement “an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance” that could “treat maladies unique to this region.”

New York Police Department has secret air weaponry that can cripple any airborne terrorist attack, said Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But who has the authority?

Edward Harold Bell, a convicted murderer and sex offender has given a chilling confession of killing 11 adolescent girls in Texas.

Regular consumption of two or more cups of the caffeinated beverage helps women lower the risks of developing depression, researchers of Harvard University found.

A team of University of California Berkley researchers claimed to have developed a new brain imaging technology that will map human minds and recreate dreams and memories.

Combination of Afinitor® and Aromasin can buy you more time before the breast cancer situation worsens.

With the recent discovery that one subatomic particle moves faster than light, our century-old understanding about the pillars of physics will soon be falling.

A beaming face and close walk with her beau Alex Loudon at a wedding party added fire to the rumor that Pippa Middleton is all set to walk down the aisle very soon.

Cancer experts believe a treatment combined with chemotherapy and radiotherapy can cut down the risk of tumor recurring in a patient.

With the latest bevy of features announced at the annual f8 developers’ conference, Facebook will no longer remain merely a social networking site, rather it will penetrate more into the lives of its users and transform itself in to an entertainment hub.

A genetic study done by an international team of scientists reveals Aboriginal Australians are descended from the boldest early humans who left Africa almost 75,000 years to strike out across Asia and finally settle down in Australia.

Finally NASA’s dead satellite will hit earth today. Now it is just a matter of few hours when a few parts of the world will witness a spectacular sky show.

Carnivorous pitcher plants have inspired the creation of a slippery surface that is not only more slippery than Teflon but has self-healing and self-cleaning qualities, scientists of Harvard University said.

Penguins just smell to find their potential mates and to maintain a lifelong bond with them, research reveals. The same smelling ability helps them identify their close kin to avoid inbreeding, scientists said on Wednesday.

The issue of the longevity gene has now created a feud between two trans-Atlantic camps of researchers. While the British scientists claim the days of longevity gene are over, the US scientists still have faith in the success of the gene.

A 14-year-old upstate New Yorker, Jamey Rodemeyer, was found dead outside his home this week, apparently the latest string of teenage suicides in the U.S. caused by mental harassment and bullying over sexuality, police said.