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Nia Vardalos has a book deal with HarperOne.

The talks between the permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany (P5+1) ended in Baghdad after two days of tough negotiations surrounding Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, which Iran had threatened to walk out of following the P5+1's refusal to scale back economic sanctions.

Higher temperatures, exacerbated by climate change, is expected to lead to the death of 150,000 Americans by the end of the century.

The Ohio House on Thursday is expected to vote on a bill that would bolster the state's rules on hydraulic fracturing

While you might know who Brooklyn Lee and Tasha Reign are, you just might recognize the man they were recently photographed with at the high-profile Nights in Monaco gala. Lee and Reign attended the gala where they met up with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. The three are seen in a photograph from the gala, as Clinton wraps his arms around the X-rated starlets.

The Yemeni state is determined to flush out the militants who control large swathes of the southern regions of the impoverished nation.

?Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King? comes out in June.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said Thursday that manufacturing growth in the Midwest and part of the Rocky Mountain region rebounded in May and that firms were more optimistic than in previous months.

The Philippines say China has now deployed a large fishing and coast guard fleet to their disputed shoal in the South China Sea, but China says the development is in line with precedents.

Gore-Tex Heiress, Susan Gore, has been denied the right to adopt her 65-year-old ex-husband as a means to boost her family's inheritance fortune.

Mitt Romney continues to trail far behind President Obama among Latino voters, imperiling his prospects in a handful of swing states.

2012 will be a historic moment in the shift of global power from the West to the East. According to expert estimates and figures on military spending, in 2012 Asia's spending on defense will eclipse Europe's for the first time in the modern era.

Iran rejected a proposal to curb uranium enrichment during the second day of nuclear talks with Western powers in Baghdad Thursday.

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) was partially rebuffed in its effort to get $10 billion out of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) Wednesday, as a Los Angeles U.S. district judge dismissed some of the New York re-insurer's claims in its securities lawsuit against the giant Charlotte, North Carolina- bank.

The State Department pulled a switcheroo on al-Qaeda by hacking into the terrorist group's Yemeni websites and replacing anti-American ads with versions showing the atrocities the criminal terrorist group is committing in that country. But will it work as terror-fighting tool?

Alleged Beltran Leyva drug cartel boss Sergio Villarreal was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Thursday, where he faces federal cocaine trafficking and money laundering charges.

A series of tweets by Cheryl Hines, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s girlfriend, show that the Curb Your Enthusiasm actress relishes her relationship with Bobby - and it may have driven Kennedy's estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, to suicide last week.

There has been a lot of hype surrounding Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, with rumors flurrying the web about romantic encounters between the two. The pop-culture icons were recently seen together at the Cannes Film Festival in France, as spotted by the Associated Press.

In economic news, the euro data was overwhelmingly negative, which interestingly enough did not propel the euro lower.

In 2008, when the financial crisis was taking form, it was the US who sneezed and the world who caught a cold.

Drone attacks have become a contentious issue in Pakistan since local officials claim these attacks frequently kill innocent civilians.