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Action film star Steven Seagal was sworn in last week as a deputy with the sheriff's office in Hudspeth County, Texas, where he will help patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.

If you've ever watched the movies Contact, Independence Day, Armageddon and Transformers: Dark of the Moon then you've probably seen the famous Very Large Array (VLA), a bank of radio telescopes in New Mexico. The array has undergone an upgrade of its electronics since 2001 and now it needs a new name.

The world's leading economies kept pressure firmly on Europe to sort out its debt crisis on Saturday with the sense of urgency to be reflected in a communique at the end of a G20 finance chiefs' meeting.

NASA has booked a charter suborbital flight on Virgin Galactic -- the company owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS -- which aims to become the world's first commercial spaceline.

The Very Large Array National Radio Telescope is searching for new name, according to its director, Fred Lo; and the institute is looking to the people for inspiration.

It's been said that what the world knows about the United States is what people see in Hollywood movies, and those perceptions could soon become reality in Texas.

NASA will charter as many as three flights on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, an air-launched spacecraft designed to carry eight people on trips to suborbital space.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry outlined plans on Friday to dramatically increase energy production and create 1.2 million jobs, taking aim at federal regulations he said are strangling the economy.

Shredded lettuce has joined the cantaloupe melon in a list of recalled foods amid a deadly listeria outbreak that has spread to 25 states in the United States.

Iran has denied the allegations and shrugged them off as more propaganda by Washington.

Despite Microsoft's initial announcement in May of acquiring Skype for $8.5 billion, the deal was finally sealed on Friday after both companies received approval from the European Commission.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading around the world. There are now protests in Spain, England, Hong Kong. Italy is next in line. Can the international movement be sustained?

G20 finance chiefs and central bank heads meet in Paris on Friday urgently needing to find a convincing solution to a deepening euro zone debt crisis that has fanned fears of a global slide into recession.

The Lone Ranger is officially back on.

The Mexican army paraded captured Los Zetas boss Carlos Oliva Castillo, nicknamed The Frog, in front of the media on Thursday, proudly displaying their latest victory in the country's ongoing war on drugs. But will the arrest have any effect on Mexico's increasingly violent drug war?

A month after deadly infected Cantaloupe melons from Colorado were recalled, the listeria outbreak continues to claim lives-now reaching 23-a record for U.S. food-borne listeriosis outbreaks.

The controversial artist and activist beat past winners Larry Gagosian and Hans Ulrich.

A profile of powerful Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, who have made a name for themselves at home, in the United States and even in Iran.

With two more deaths being reported from Lousiana, the listeria outbreak has become the deadliest epidemic in the United States in last 25 years.

Jake Winebaum is betting on a Web-based solution to take the hassle and price worry out of a health obligation many of us fear and some can't even afford - going to the dentist.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81-day detention earlier this year caused an international outcry, has been named the art world's most powerful figure in a new ranking.