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The worst flooding caused by high tides to hit Thailand since 1942 has inundated the suburbs of Bangkok, though the capital city has been spared a truly severe event because it sits a little above sea level.

The deaths of two passengers abroad a Norwegian cruise ship that docked in Boston on Friday morning, were not caused by foul play, said Massachusetts state police and FBI agents.

Lindsay Lohan's estranged father Michael Lohan was back in police custody Thursday, hours after he had been released from a jail in Tampa on domestic violence charges.

A day after an Iraq War veteran was critically injured during a clash with police, hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters held a march in the area late on Wednesday night. The march started after a peaceful demonstration at the Frank Ogawa Plaza.

American Pie actress Tara Reid has said her recent marriage with Bulgarian financier, Zack Kehayov, is not legal.

Comedian Patrice O'Neal suffered a stroke last week, according to Jim Norton, a fellow comic on the Opie and Anthony show. We don't know how he is. We don't know how he's going to be, said Norton on Wednesday.

Michael Lohan, father of actress Lindsay Lohan, was arrested on Monday, on suspicion of domestic violence.

Hundreds of protesters in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement clashed with dozens of police in riot gear in Oakland on Tuesday. Police used teargas, rubber bullets and flash bang to disperse the protesters.

Senior officials of the provisional government in Libya said that the ousted leader, Moammar Gadhafi, was killed by the National Transitional Council troops near his hometown of Sirte Thursday morning.

A smiling photograph of Karnataka's former Chief Minister Yeddyurappa used to welcome me to a vegetarian hotel in one of the busier markets in Bangalore.

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Internet search giant Google posted a big jump in its profits in the third quarter. Its net income rose to $2.73 billion as its online advertising revenue reached $9.72 billion in the third quarter.

A new study has found that the prehistoric predator Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur was even bigger and heavier than it was estimated previously.

The Black Death, the worst plague in Europe's history, killed between 30 million and 50 million people in the 14th century. Now, after analyzing dozens of skeletons, scientists claim to have cracked its genetic code. They say simple antibiotics available today can beat the disease.

Myanmar has begun releasing dozens of political prisoners as part of a wider amnesty. Around 70 political prisoners were reported to have been released by noon Wednesday.

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva hope to resolve the God particle (Higgs boson) mystery within the next 12 months.

Children of American pop icon Michael Jackson made appearances Saturday at Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed the second half of the two-part California Dream Act, which makes illegal immigrant students eligible for state-funded scholarships and aid at state universities.

In his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday, U.S. President Barack Obama asked people to tell their senators to support his $450 billion jobs bill.

Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, one of the last bastions of support for the fugitive leader, came under heavy shelling by revolutionary fighters Saturday.

A top U.S. Treasury Department official cautioned counterparts at the Energy Department that their plan to help a failing solar-power company, Solyndra LLC, by restructuring its $535 million federal loan could violate the law and should be cleared with the Justice Department.

The European Space Agency is planning to send a probe closer to the sun than has ever been attempted. The ambitious space mission is expected to happen in 2017, ESA delegates meeting in Paris announced recently.

On the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the United States is perhaps fighting a different type of terrorism now than it did then.

The pilot of a small plane was forced to land in the Pacific Ocean after running out of fuel while flying from California to Hawaii on Friday afternoon.

Rachel Uchitel became famous for her multiple affairs with celebrities like golfer Tiger Woods and actor David Boreanaz. Now, the 36-year-old nightclub hostess, who has been called the most famous mistress on the planet seems to have fed up with the self-described ‘love addict’ in her and realized that the ‘cure for the addiction’ comes through getting hitched.

Van Jones was the environmental adviser to President Barack Obama and resigned in the wake of a controversy in Sept. 2009. Recently, he has been linked to “Occupy Wall Street” protests and has gained a worldwide attention with his call for an “October Offensive” against the Tea Party. However, it seems Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t heard about Jones.

Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday that threatened sanctions against Syria if it didn't stop military crackdown against civilians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Van Jones, who served as President Barack Obama's environmental adviser till Sept. 2009, has said that the progressives are going to launch an October offensive against the Tea Party.

An aircraft carrying foreign tourists crashed in Nepal on Sunday morning, news agencies reported.