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Toril Hansen and Hege Dale risked their own lives to save 40 potential victims of Anders Breivik

Establishing the contours of a massive debt deal consumed all of Congress, but filling in the $1.5 trillion details will be the responsibility of a mere dozen lawmakers.

People including James Cameron and the airline titan Richard Branson, have taken aim at one of the most remote places on the planet.

Politicians and lobbyists exhausted from a bruising and tortuous debate over a debt deal are already turning their attention to a dozen-member Congressional "super committee" that will be responsible for laying out some $1.5 trillion in cuts. Will they be able to find them?

NJ police set up a sting operation

Not only is the Web-search giant Google at odds with Apple, Microsoft's assault on Google in Internet search and search advertising through their own search engine 'Bing' serves as another attack on the home front and as competitive challenges in the technology industry grow.

The U.N. says that more than $2 billion more in aid is required to help the starving in Somalia.

the very wealthy have begun investing in private vessels to explore the other great frontier: the ocean's depths.

Al-Jazeera English has been hailed for its vivid, path breaking coverage of the Arab Spring gaining worldwide recognition for it expansive resources and reportage, but the majority of the US can only watch the channel online.

The new Google+ games are expected to arrive with major technical differences.

A Caribbean Airlines jet from New York overshot the runway after it had just touched down Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Georgetown, Guyana, and broke apart injuring several dozens of people.

After two weeks of acrimony, Democrats and Republicans, perhaps after having stared into the abyss, returned to the bargaining table Saturday. Still, no one will believe the issue has been resolved until President Barack Obama signs a bill that raises the debt ceiling and cuts the budget deficit.

Norway police say the victim count in the attack in and around Oslo last week has reached 77.

The Speaker struggles to hold his party together.

The debt deal saga is becoming a defining moment for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Google+ was launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite-only ?field testing? phase and the service has incorporated social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and has introduced new services such as Circles, Hangouts, Sparks, and Huddles.

The 2010 wave of Tea Party conservatives that propelled House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, into power have emerged during the debt talks as a central threat to Boehner's leadership by increasingly exposing Boehner's inability to hold together his fractious caucus.

Amy Winehouse may have died from alcohol withdrawal.

While the scramble to strike a debt deal dominates headlines, Republicans have been filling an appropriations bill with measures that would sharply curtail environmental regulations.

While a glut of foreclosures makes South Florida a symbol for the casualties of the U.S. housing crisis, the swift recovery of the Miami housing market demonstrates the voracious taste for property that helped create it.

Olympic skiier Jeret ?Speedy? Peterson, who committed suicide Monday night, first called 911 before shooting himself, according to police.

National Football League (NFL) teams, players and their agents braced for a flurry of fast-paced negotiations and a frenzy of deal-making as clubs returned to business on Tuesday.

The recession has blown open discrepancies in wealth between white Americans and minorities, with Hispanics seeing the most precipitous decline in average household wealth, according to a Pew survey.

Ford's near-term success is riding on getting a new UAW contract that controls labor costs for the next four years. If Ford is successful, the company's costs paid for debt will improve with a credit rating upgrade.

A massive bloom of algae has spread to a size of almost 20,000 square kilometers in the waters off of China?s eastern coast, according to a report by the country?s state-controlled Xinhua news agency.

Winehouse used Sharon's longtime backup band

In a recent study, researchers analyzed ways to lower the male sperm count. Male contraceptives are gaining interest from a number of scientists, who believe they hold promise for being safe, effective and, in fact, reversible, if researched and attempted.

Scientists are in a race to develop a male birth control pill that can become a new contraceptive alternative to condoms.

A housekeeper publicly stated details to Newsweek on Sunday regarding the sexual assault attack by former International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a New York City hotel room.