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In the last few months, various reports of mentally sick mothers who baked their own babies grabbed headlines. Even more bizarre is that these grisly acts have been replicated in simulation video games.

Global Warming and Climate Change are phenomena that broke the bonds of scientific circles to be a matter of debate between 'believers' and 'skeptics.' Countless studies validating and denying global warming have seen the light of the day providing fodder for more debates, some of which somewhat bitter. A couple of days back reports of Al Gore's use of curse words against skeptics, during a heated rant, was doing the rounds on the Internet. The Nobel Peace Prize winner called thos...

Actress Faye Dunaway plans to fight a lawsuit aiming to evict her from her rent-controlled apartment in New York, her attorney said on Thursday.

Here is a look at some of the top donors to election campaigns for the 12 members of the U.S. Congress named to a deficit-fighting "super committee."

In the wake of the 2007-2009 economic recession, investors in the $3.7 trillion U.S. municipal bond market have been rattled by predictions of possible bankruptcies.

Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers gave Wall Street a set of quarterly results investors could cheer about for the first time in over a year.

A teenager has died at a hospital four days after suffering head injuries in a fall at Yosemite National Park, in a deadly year for visitors to the California nature reserve, authorities said on Thursday.

Three grandsons of a congressman from California who were abducted in 2007 have been returned to the United States from Mexico, where they were living with his son's ex-wife, authorities said on Thursday.

California-based E-Poll's E-Score Celebrity research for the first week of August has revealed the most hated people in America. Casey Anthony, not surprisingly, tops the hate list with 94 percent respondents expressing their disgust towards her.

Perry's spokesman Mark Miner told The Associated Press on Thursday that the Texas governor will be running for president and will make his intentions known on Saturday while visiting South Carolina and New Hampshire as most of his presidential rivals compete in a test vote in Iowa.

TCW's incoming CEO in 2009, Marc Stern, tried to sow discord and drive a wedge between Jeffrey Gundlach and his tight-knit mortgage-backed securities team, Gundlach testified on Thursday.

An unmanned experimental aircraft designed to glide down from the upper atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound lost contact with ground control on its second test flight on Thursday, a Pentagon agency said.

Jeffrey Gundlach said he never told anyone on his staff to download data from his former employer, Trust Co of the West, or copy valuable trading information -- though he did briefly consider such an action.

New Apple patent could put projectors on the iPhone.

The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, tested by the U.S. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency Thursday, was supposed to be fastest aircraft ever flown.

It was supposed to be the fastest plane ever built, the Falcon HTV-2, but instead it proved to be a fast failure.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says contact with the Falcon HTV-2 was lost shortly after takeoff.

The leading chipmaker for PCs is fighting for the tablet market.

A Minotaur IV Lite rocket lifted off with the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 Thursday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, successfully released the aircraft and entered the mission's glide phase. But contact with the plane has been lost.

Gizmodo is in the clear after a Califorina prosecutor dropped charges for purchasing and leaking an iPhone 4 prototype last year.

World's fastest Aircraft Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, capable of reaching speeds of up to 13,000 miles per hour is scheduled to be tested on Thursday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.