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About 500 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from a New York park on Thursday to the stock exchange for a protest that the movement against economic inequality hoped would attract tens of thousands of people.

A rare notebook, unheard of before, belonging to Nobel Laureate and Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore will be auctioned in December in New York.

As the investigators are still looking for crucial clues in the disappearance of one-year-old Kansas City girl, Lisa Irwin, new developments have taken place.

The eviction of the protesters from Zuccotti Park Monday night resembled a host body convulsively rejecting an unwanted implant. Occupy Wall Street lambasts, rightly, many social and economic ills. But is it native to its home base?

Crude oil prices slightly eased in Asian trading Thursday, after surging to a five-month high of $102.59 a barrel in Wednesday's North American session.

Two Romanians recoded Dunkin' Donut gift cards with stolen bank account details and used them to withdraw money in New York City.

Bob Costas asked direct questions, and Sandusky appeared to stumble on his answers.

The 2011 National Book Award ceremony was held in New York late Wednesday and hosted by actor, musician and author John Lithgow, featuring the finest writers, editors and publishers in the United States. The winners included: Jesmyn Ward, Stephen Grenblatt, Nikkey Finney and Thanhha Lai.

The Occupy protests have spread far beyond New York City. As a sweep of arrests and police raids force evacuations of Occupy sites and the original OWS at Zuccotti Park, look back on some of the beautiful poster art evoking the different messages of the movement, which now spans 11 countries and has camps in over a dozen states.

Calling former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky a coward for denying the 40 charges of child sex abuse against him, a lawyer for one of the alleged victims says comments by Sandusky and his attorney have spurred others to come forward, and condemned both the Second Mile founder and Penn State for victim-blaming and cover-up.

While gossip columns report that, once again, Kate Middleton is pregnant, the palace confirmed the truth about the baby rumors, which are just that, rumors.

Occupy Wall Street protester Randy Credico is one of the estimated 200 protesters who were arrested as part of the NYPD's early Tuesday morning raid of the movement's encampment in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.

The call awoke Mustafa Sav after 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. It was from his building manager, Alan Scott. He explained something Sav had already expected -- police had evicted Occupy Wall Street protestors from Zuccotti Park.

China-based Qihoo 360 Technology Co (QIHU.N) posted better-than-expected quarterly results and forecast strong revenue for the current quarter as the provider of antivirus software draws more money from online advertising.

Mike The Situation Sorrentino is slipping away from the Jersey Shore to visit the spooky 'burbs.

A big fire blazed through Fire Island Pines of New York’s Long Island on Monday night and needed 400 firefighters from 28 fire departments to be subdued. So far, no injuries were reported.

Less than four months before the Penn State sex abuse scandal erupted, Joe Paterno transferred full ownership of his Pennsylvania home to his wife, Suzanne, for $1 plus love and affection, according to county records.

Subway signs in Brooklyn have been altered with graffiti in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.

Striking union workers at Freeport Indonesia's giant Grasberg copper mine are sticking to pay demands for $7.50 an hour, a wage request deemed excessive by the U.S. miner's chief executive.

Actress and model Olivia Wilde unveiled the 25,000 crystal Swarovski star that will don the top of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree this holiday.

Occupy London protestors were given 24 hours to vacate their camp outside of St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon, one day after the midnight eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors in New York.