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NEW YORK (AP) -- The accused madam of a multimillion-dollar Manhattan brothel could get out of jail if a judge okays a defense lawyer's plan to put up his own apartment as bail and a house-arrest locale for her....

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is scheduled to arrive at a Colorado federal prison Thursday to begin serving a 14-year sentence on a corruption conviction.

Francoise Barbira-Freedman, medical anthropologist at Cambridge University, talks about a herbal remedy for toothache, used for centuries by a remote Incan tribe in the Amazon which is being turned into a commercial treatment for dental pain.

The mayor of a town in southern Italy has banned dying because his town has run out of burial space.

Demand for leaves from an endangered palm, found in Central and South America is threatening the species' long term survival, a study warns.

Surprise! Just when they thought Barack Obama was pulling ahead, his numbers seem to be tanking.

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (AP) -- The St. Joseph Peninsula is picture-perfect Florida: 17 miles of sugar sand beach interrupted by a few clusters of homes, each with a million-dollar view of the Gulf of Mexico....

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (AP) -- The St. Joseph Peninsula is picture-perfect Florida: 17 miles of sugar sand beach interrupted by a few clusters of homes, each with a million-dollar view of the Gulf of Mexico....

LONDON (AP) -- Thousands of emails purported to be from the private accounts of Bashar Assad and his wife show the Syrian president took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, joked about his promises of reform and bypassed U.S. sanctions to shop on iTunes, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday....

School Reporters from Kingsford Community School in Beckton take a look at how one school is embracing a shift in the foreign languages students want to learn.

Rucksacks loaded with school books have been linked to higher levels of back pain in a study of Spanish school children.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Hundreds of anti-smoking advocates on Thursday picketed a large international tobacco fair in the Philippines, a country that has drawn more attention from the industry as Western nations pile on restrictions and taxes....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Swiss couple held captive by the Taliban in Pakistan since July turned up at an army post close to the Afghan border and was flown to safety on Thursday by the Pakistani military, security officials said....

The FDA's Scheme to Reclassify Nutrients as Drugs, 8-3-11

The emergency department at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital has been "pushed to its limits" says a Belfast health trust director after a patient dies unnoticed on a trolley.

Today's Pastors are 'Lip Service' Pastors, 3-15-12

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ten years after 9/11, the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims has exposed a bitter divide between New Yorkers and their neighbors across the Hudson River, with city leaders defending the police force and out-of-town politicians angry to learn of New York detectives working their turf....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ten years after 9/11, the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims has exposed a bitter divide between New Yorkers and their neighbors across the Hudson River, with city leaders defending the police force and out-of-town politicians angry to learn of New York detectives working their turf....

The daughter of an RAF man killed with 11 others in a plane crash in the Malaysian jungle in 1950 will finally see him buried with full military honours after a personal campaign.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Afghanistan is not Iraq, U.S. officials have been fond of saying from the first days of Barack Obama's presidency....