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Republican Bob Turner and Democrat David Weprin are up for Weiner’s seat in Sept. 13 election.

The Miss Universe 2011 swimsuit presentation took place on Thursday night, as the international beauties showed their stuff in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Mel Gibson is reportedly making a movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee. The actor, who has been labeled an anti-Semite thanks to a number of hateful rants, will team with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas for the historical work

The United States has killed the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden. But in engaging in two costly wars, did the U.S. do much of what bin Laden wanted the U.S. to do?

The election to replace Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress after being revealed as an internet womanizer who used Twitter to send lewd pictures of himself, is more competitive than anyone expected.

Director Abel Ferrara ponders how we would behave knowing death was coming to us all in an environmental disaster in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his latest film starring Willem Dafoe.

Dutch telecoms firm KPN said on Tuesday its IT unit, Getronics, has won new business from customers after hackers stole security certificates from Dutch IT firm DigiNotar, a business rival.

“After the Arab Spring, we predict that a winter of radical Islam will arrive, Eisenberg told a press conference in Tel Aviv on Monday.

Yeonpyeong lies in the Yellow Sea west of the Korean Peninsula close to the disputed sea border.

After dramatically downgrading its relations with Israel on Friday, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is totally suspending all trade and military ties with Israel, as relations between the countries continue to sour.

TechAmerica reports technology employment is falling. Who will make products consumers crave?

Hundreds of thousands marched Saturday for lower living costs in the largest such rally in Israel's history, bolstering a social change movement and mounting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take on economic reform.

Tea Party members and other conservatives would like Americans to believe that the United States’ problems started in 2009, but nothing could be further from the truth -- three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.’s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.

Israel has also refused to apologize for the killings.

Secret files unearthed from Tripoli headquarters of Libya's intelligence agency, shattered by NATO air-strikes, included startling evidence indicating that top U.S. and British figures offered aid and advice to Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan regime. The papers obtained by various news organizations show that the unholy political partnerships were too murky and that the U.S. and UK governments almost fought among themselves for establishing the Libya Connection.

Turkey dramatically downgraded its relations with Israel on Friday, expelling the country's ambassador and cutting military ties with its former ally over Israel's refusal to apologize for an armed assault on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine people.

The report (which were leaked to the New York Times newspaper) stated that Israeli military officers used excessive force.

Secret files obtained from Tripoli headquarters of Libya's intelligence agency, shattered by NATO air-strikes, included startling evidence indicating that top U.S. officials offered aid and advice to Moammar Gaddafi since the beginning of the Libyan public's protest.

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons will marry his girlfriend of 28 years, the actress and former Playmate Shannon Tweed, in an October ceremony, his representative said on Thursday.

Israel's social protest movement faces its moment of truth on Saturday when the turnout for a March of a Million demonstration in Tel Aviv will show whether a popular push for reform can be sustained, a leading organiser said.

The United States could be worse than 40 other countries when it comes to infant mortality.