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US builder confidence ticks up to 5-year high
Confidence among U.S. builders ticked up this month to a five-year high, an indication that the housing market is slowly improving. The National ...
Phones gain ability to learn by touching
There's a form of extra-sensory perception called psychometry, whose practitioners claim to learn things about objects by touching them.
Police: Canada suspect carried $330,000 in cash
The man wanted in an armored car heist at a Canadian university that left three armed guards dead was carrying $330,000 in cash and no passport when ...
Munich voters reject extra airport runway
Voters in Munich have rejected plans to build a third runway at the city's airport, the second-busiest in Germany after Frankfurt. Authorities in the ...
Iran, 6 powers both need success at nuclear talks
Iran and six world powers resume nuclear talks Monday no closer to progress than in previous rounds, and with the clock ticking on international ...
Unmanned Air Force space plane lands in Calif.
An unmanned Air Force space plane steered itself to a landing early Saturday at a California military base, capping a 15-month clandestine mission.
Ex-Indian army major takes flight, kills family
At 6:15 a.m. last Saturday, Avtar Singh dialed 911 from his home in the Central Valley farming town 200 miles north of Los Angeles. He told police he ...
AP PHOTOS: China sends first woman into space
China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock ...
China sends first woman into space
China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on Saturday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock ...
HL:Armoured-car murder suspect's mother pleads for her son's surrender@
EDMONTON — The mother of a young security guard who police believe killed three co-workers and grievously wounded a fourth begged her boy to turn ...
SpaceX founder talks Mars with Caltech grads
Fresh off SpaceX's historic return from the International Space Station, company founder Elon Musk said Friday that he would like to see humans settle ...
APNewsBreak: FAA felt offshore wind farm pressure
Federal Aviation Administration employees felt political pressure to approve a wind farm planned off Cape Cod and did so amid internal disagreement ...
Perilous new Vegas water pipeline claims a life
Just six miles from where the Hoover Dam holds back the largest reservoir in the nation, workers are struggling against solid rock, geologic faults ...
China sending first woman in space to test module
China will send its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step ...
A tourist's day in 5 cities: Expensive, exhausting
It's an hour on line to the top of the Empire State Building and $82 for a cab from Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The Louvre Museum is closed on Tuesdays, ...
Greek crisis takes its toll on industry
In its heyday just over a decade ago, the Komotini industrial zone in northern Greece was a hive of activity, with dozens of factories producing ...
Asia stocks rise amid hopes for central bank help
Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday as investors waded back into riskier assets amid hopes that central banks in the U.S. and elsewhere were ...
US Olympic uniforms could shave time off sprints
U.S. Olympic track and field athletes will wear uniforms at the London Summer Olympics that Nike says could shave up to 0.023 seconds off 100-meter ...
Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants
A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul ...
Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle
Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for ...
OPEC to keep 30 million barrel output target
OPEC oil ministers agreed Thursday to keep their production target steady, in a compromise meant to defuse rivalries between Iran and Saudi Arabia and ...
A closer look at Russian arms sales to Syria
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sparked controversy this week when she accused Russia of escalating the conflict in Syria by sending ...
NASA chief views history-making SpaceX capsule
Marred by just a few scorch marks from its re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, the world's first commercial supply spacecraft to visit the ...
100-year-old Battleship Texas springs massive leak
Children shimmy up the barrels of massive cannons on the upper decks of the 100-year-old Battleship Texas, focused on firing at an imaginary enemy and ...
Ariz. asks for haikus to promote dust storm safety
Arizona transportation officials are getting the message out about dust storm safety — in precisely 17 syllables. The Arizona Department of ...