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The tall American knocked off the top-ranked player.

Who is Raffles van Exel, the man who is said to have taken a photo of Whitney Houston's corpse at the family's private viewing and sold it to the National Enquirer?

Porn star Bree Olson, famous for being one of Charlie Sheen's Goddesses during his 2011 meltdown, is leeching onto another sinking ship. In the wake of the disturbing video of Kony 2012 filmmaker, Jason Russell, running around naked in public, Olson has decided to release her own video, Naked for Kony 2012.

Since his return to the United States last month, 19-year-old rapper Earl Sweatshirt has returned to high school, released a new track, gained 150,000 Twitter followers, and reportedly worked on a still-unreleased track with recording artist Santigold.

Jason Russell, co-founder of Invisible Children, the group behind the Kony 2012 viral video, as well as the Stop Kony campaign, was detained by San Diego police on Thursday.

Pity Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) at your own peril. The world's fastest growing video game maker suffers from the sort of unenviable problems most companies pray for. Its 37 percent growth rate over the last three years, with 2011 revenue topping $4.8 billion, earned it No. 185 on IBT 1000, a proprietary list created by the International Business Times of the top 1,000 fastest growing companies in the world.

Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl who was abducted and beheaded by Taliban militants in Pakistan, has been honored with the prestigious 2011 A.M. Turing Award for artificial intelligence.

The US soldier who gunned down 16 Afghan villagers including women and children on Sunday was identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales.

Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell, who was part of the group behind the viral Kony 2012 video and the Stop Kony campaign, was detained yesterday in California for allegedly drunkenly masturbating in public, according to the San Diego Police Department.

The Violence Against Women Act is at the center of an explosive debate in Congress this week. The bill has been authorized twice since its introduction in 1994, but this time Republicans are putting up a fight. Either way, things are looking up for Senate Democrats.

The world's ugliest dog, or most beautiful depending on your definition of beauty, Yoda died on Saturday peacefully in her sleep. Yoda's owner, Terry Schumacher, told the Hanford Sentinel that her ugly dog, a 15-year-old Chinese crested-Chihuahua mix who weighed just 1.8 pounds, died over the weekend.

NC State upset San Diego State 79-65 in their first-round Friday NCAA Tournament game, upsetting many office pools across the country. What does it mean for your March Madness bracket?

The federal government gave Oregon, Washington and Idaho permission to kill California sea lions that eat threatened and endangered salmon in the Columbia River Thursday.

This 2012 NCAA Tournament mid-game report offers insight and analysis about today's game, in which North Carolina State and San Diego State are battling for a tough Big Dance win.

Google is in for a major retooling of its search engine, aiming to make big changes in how it searches the Web. While traditional Internet search technologies recognize keywords typed into query boxes and deliver links to seemingly relevant Web sites, Google plans to do more than that – understand what people are actually searching for.

A recent scientific study provides evidence that the brown recluse spider is spreading out of southern regions into areas where the climate is becoming warmer.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn't have to be like the rest of us to get his new iPad, but he wants to be one of the real people.

Where to watch San Diego St vs NC St and a game preview.

Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) recovered after plunging in the first hour of trading as sales of its latest iPad brought lines to its U.S. retail stores and wireless company outlets.

When he visited the United States four years ago, Pope Benedict XVI blessed a box of silver ribbon-shaped pins for breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure and sent them to its founder, Nancy Brinker.

Meghan McCain, the daughter of Sen. John McCain, recently gave Playboy a candid yet racy interview in which she tells the magazine that she she is strictly dickly, loves sex and love men.