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A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intellig...

A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison. The Social Security Administration's inspector general said in a report Thursday that $18 m...

New York doesn't want anyone to buy soda using food stamps.The New York Times reports officials in that city are seeking to ban people from using of food stamps to buy soft drinks, an attempt to improve the he...

Uploads from iPhones using the Facebook app will push all your contacts onto Facebook's servers - where they'll be matched against any and everyone. Worried at all? Update: Or how about a random Facebooker's nu...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Countries from around the world pledged Tuesday to pour 11.7 billion dollars into a fight against AIDS and other deadly diseases.UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced the commitment at UN head...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will announce new initiatives to encourage partnerships between private industry and community colleges when he meets with a panel of economic advisers on Monday, U.S. off...

Barack Obama personally apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people in the Latin American state were deliberately infected with sexually-trans...

Ah, Guam.This tiny island just next to the Marianas Trench has had trouble with snakes for a long time.  When I was a Boy Scout there, my dad fitted a machette to my camping pack, half for clearing the jungle,...

Raw bean sprouts would be washed and thoroughly cooked before being eaten unless they are labelled as ready to eat, the Health Protection Agency has warned.A further 19 cases have been found in Scotland.Inves...

Two different sets of dates, one for Europe and one for the U.S, have leaked in regards to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 launch. The dates are, of course, unconfirmed. First, Neowin said that it has been told by...