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Many women may think birth control pills and condoms are better at pregnancy prevention than they actually are, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 4,100 women who were seeking birth control, about 45 percent overestimated the effectiveness of the Pill and condoms.

Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, fell 3 percent after Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced a new partnership to battle the iPad.

The tragic story of the Titanic has fascinated people of every generation ever since the shipwreck happened a century ago. Hundred years after the disaster, an idea of replicating the world's biggest ship that made history sounds just exciting.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), said they?ve agreed to collaborate on new tablet technology to battle Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN).

Jersey Shore star Nicole ?Snooki? Polizzi is absolutely in ?pregnancy mode? and busy planning everything from her due love-child?s name, clothes, her upcoming Snooki **9** JWoww reality show, but certainly NOTHING about marriage.

The WeeGee: Murder is My Business exhibition includes a mix of raw imagery, crimes and news reports of the time; resulting in a truly graphic collection of photographs which pride themselves on being unshakable from the mind. Many of WeeGee's images, such as the Naked City, which is displayed at the center's museum in all its frightening glory- once inspired the early tabloid newspapers and are partly responsible for making tabloid journalism what it is today!

The 2012 NFL Draft is over, and it's now time to offer up some grades. What teams did well? What teams failed? Read all about it with our 2012 NFL Draft Grades.

Apple Inc. has developed a knack for sidestepping federal income-tax obligations through an intricate paper shuffle and a smattering of subsidiaries around the world. But its tactics fall far short of the nuanced approach taken by 26 companies that paid zero dollars in federal taxes over the last four years.

Artistic savant James Franco has displayed an aptitude for juggling creative projects. The actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, scholar, and adjunct professor is the epitome of the hipster intellectual.

Chen Guangcheng is the latest -- but almost certainly won't be the last -- Chinese dissident to stir up international uproar over civil-rights violations in China. But seeing the many-branched tree of civil and human-rights activists from which he descended offers an overview of the current state of China's political dissent.

Regarding its banking system, the United States has now experienced its third generation of heads the banks win, tails the taxpayer and the public loses.? Is there a better way? Is it possible to create a bank that serves the people of the United States?

It?s not just enterprises and government agencies that are already starting to benefit from the new era of so-called ?Big Data.? Consumers are already beneficiaries, even if they don?t know it.

After a spirited third period in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals, New York leads the series 1-0.

One of the reasons the poignant urban drama Babygirl is such a strong film is its remarkable cast. Among its members are Yainis Ynoa and Joshua Rivera.

At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, two standout movies portray Latino communities in ways that have seldom been done before. Lucy Mulloy's Una Noche follows three Cuban teens who flee their homeland on a raft, while Macdara Vallely's BabyGirl focuses on the relationship between a Puerto Rican teen and her mother.

Kanye West has been caught with his pants down with Kim Kardashian -- literally! The new celebrity couple were photographed by paparazzi exiting Yeezy's Maybach outside his apartment in SoHo on the way back from dinner in New York, and he's literally pulling up his pants.

Watch the Knicks take on the Heat.

Delmon Young apologized to his team and Tiger's fans just before being arraigned on hate-crime charges in New York City.

Did you hear the news? A mass grave with two dozen bodies was found in Texas. Iran is banning the Internet. South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley is under indictment for tax fraud. Jon Bon Jovi is dead. All of these statements are false but were at one time considered to be verified, legitimate facts, believed and shared by many.

One of the most distinguished films at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this year is Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. Set in 1932 England, the film centers on a bride's gloomy wedding day.

China's economic relationships with Eastern Europe are deepening. Although the Asian power's trade with the former Communist bloc often goes unnoticed in the Americas, it has increased significantly in recent years.