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A seemingly harmless cosmetic procedure turned deadly for a Bronx woman. She died one day after receiving silicone injections in her thighs, allegedly administered by someone without a medical license.

Spam has recovered from the jolt it received last November, when Internet backbone providers cut off McColo Corporation, a California Web-hosting service that spammers were using to coordinate e-mail attacks. Spam volume is again 94% of all email.

Maryelen Loughran, 15, eats through a tube and has crippling arthritis but beat thousands of other girls to win a place in the final of a national modelling contest.

While acknowledging that the Federal Reserve was "extremely uncomfortable" about last year's bailouts of big financial companies, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday the central bank's strategy to ease the financial crisis is working.

A controversial law in Afghanistan that includes a provision making it illegal for a Shia Muslim woman to refuse to have sex with her husband is making it more difficult to boost NATO troop levels in Afghanistan, the secretary general of the alliance says

If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fast broadband Internet service, here’s a statistic that will make heart race or your blood boil. The fastest consumer broadband in the world: the 160-megabit-per-second service costs $20 per home.

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The accident occurred at the intersection of La Canada Flintridge when the tractor-trailer went out of control colliding with several vehicles and driving into a shopping complex. In the busy retail section of boutiques and restaurants, where witness Meli

Under Obama's leadership, the U.S. has a new look for Europe -- short on grand designs and long on collaboration

Social news community Mixx is seeing healthy growth ever since they left stealth mode. They got a nice traffic spike last May after CNN integrated 'Mixx it' buttons in

Nervous Japanese officials know that the first moments after a North Korean rocket launch will be critical: Barely seven minutes after liftoff, it is likely to be hurtling over Japan's northern coast.

Jerry Avant Jr. died while protecting others. Doctors said the 39-year-old male nurse was shot more than two dozen times Sunday while trying to shield others from a gunman at a Carthage, N.C. nursing home.

Human resource management is concerned with the people dimension in management. Every organization is made up of people and thus acquiring their services, developing their skills, motivating them to high levels of performance, and ensuring that they conti

A high school football coach beat a student so severely with a "canoe paddle" that the wood board cracked and had to be taped so the "licking" could resume, a Dallas school district report said.

House and Senate passage of companion budget plans gave President Barack Obama and his Capitol Hill allies a key victory, but the debates also exposed vulnerabilities in the president's agenda.

Video of Taliban-style justice being meted-out in a northern Pakistani enclave aired on local TV channels Friday, providing vivid evidence of the Taliban's penchant for ruthlessly enforcing their controversial Islamic laws in areas under their control.

The state legislature has received a bill arguing that legalizing marijuana could earn the budget-crunched Golden State tons of cash

At least four people were shot and several people taken hostage Friday at an immigration services center in Binghamton, N.Y., according to police and news reports

Authorities are at the scene of a building in Binghamton, New York, where there are "multiple" shooting victims and hostages are being held, a county spokesman said.

Twittering employees are more productive A whole nine per cent more, claims a new study.Are you allowed free access to Facebook or Twitter at work?