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Frank Ocean, Maroon 5, Keys to perform at Grammys
All five nominees for album of the year at this year's Grammys will perform at the awards show next month. The Recording Academy announced Thursday ...
Next in BP spill saga: civil trial worth billions
Now that a $4 billion plea deal has resolved BP's criminal liability for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill nearly three years ago, the company will ...
Winfrey, Frank Ocean among GLAAD award nominees
GLAAD has named the film "Cloud Atlas," AMC's reality show "Small Town Security," and the New Yorker magazine among its nominees for the 24th Annual ...
Locals say shifting sea ice frees trapped whales
About a dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice appeared to be free after the ice shifted, village officials in Canada's remote north said Thursday, ...
Giant squid filmed in ocean depths for 1st time
After a hundred dives deep into the Pacific, scientists and broadcasters say they have captured video images of a giant squid in its natural habitat ...
R&B singer Frank Ocean cited for pot possession
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Frank Ocean has temporarily lost his driver's license and faces a marijuana possession charge after police say he was ...
Critics say grounding shows Arctic drilling danger
The grounding of a petroleum drilling ship on a remote Alaska island has refueled the debate over oil exploration in the U.S. Arctic Ocean, where ...
Federal government lists 2 ice seals as threatened
Two types of ice seals joined polar bears Friday on the list of species threatened by the loss of sea ice, which scientists say reached record low ...
West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter
Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year's ...
AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year
Mesfin Fekadu's picks: 1. Nas, "Life is Good": "I am a graphic classic song composer," Nas raps on the intro to his latest album. And he's right.
Column: How to stitch your tongue at sea
One sailor used sandpaper to gingerly file down his broken molar before capping the aching stump with epoxy resin. But no one — at least not yet — has ...
After climate talks, eyes on US for next round
Even as international climate talks ended this weekend with no new commitments on carbon emissions or climate aid from the United States, some were ...
NY mostly ignored reports warning of superstorm
More than three decades before Superstorm Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a ...
UN conference adopts extension of Kyoto accord
Seeking to control global warming, nearly 200 countries agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output ...
Tensions mount as UN climate talks near end
U.N. climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed ...
Individuality takes center stage at Grammys
Fun. helped break up the sound of dance and electronic music on Top 40 radio with its edgy pop-rock grooves. Frank Ocean made a bold statement in R&B ...
mtvU honors Frank Ocean, wounded Pakistani teen
The mtvU network is honoring a rap superstar who detailed his love for another man and a Pakistani girl shot for her education advocacy as its Man and ...
Grammys spread the love with 6 top nominees
The Grammy Awards celebrated the diversity of music as six different artists tied for lead nominee — Kanye West, Jay-Z, Frank Ocean, Dan Auerbach of ...
World Bank: Arab World hit hard by climate change
The Middle East and North Africa will be especially hard hit by climate change in the coming decades, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday, ...
At climate talks, UN chief rejects warming doubts
Pointing to the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy and other weather disasters this year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an international ...
Ice sheets melting at poles faster than before
Fueled by global warming, polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now melting three times faster than they did in the 1990s, a new scientific ...
Arctic sea ice larger than US melted this year
An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline ...