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A report recently published in the British Medical Journal predicted that a 15 percent reduction in salt consumption could save 8.5 million lives in the next decade.

IBM engineer Mark Dean ? who happens to be one of the designers of the company?s first personal computer ? used the celebration of the PC?s 30th birthday to announce that we now live in the ?post-PC era.?

Jon Stewart accused Megyn Kelly of flipping-flopping on maternity leave on The Daily Show.

The victim was bitten in Mexico but died in Louisiana.

Space debris orbiting the Earth is building up to a critical point, and it is threatening the environment and spacecrafts alike, says a NASA scientist.

The U.S. will donate an additional $17 million to nations in the Horn of Africa coping with severe drought, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced.

China's massive intervention in currency markets could qualify it as the most protectionist nation in history, a leading U.S. economist said on Friday.

South Africa's rand steadied against the dollar on Friday but faced further losses after a turbulent week in which it hit its weakest levels in more than a year as investors spooked by debt woes in the U.S. and Europe fled to safer havens like the yen.

Stocks rose on Friday as mildly encouraging retail sales overshadowed weak consumer sentiment data, with lighter volume reflecting a drop in investor anxiety.

The country launched its first ever census on wild elephants on Thursday.

Comedian Jon Stewart ripped Megyn Kelly for (what in his opinion is) flip-flopping on her stance for maternity leave.

A new rumor has the iPhone 5 being released on September 7.

U.S. companies are pouring their cash stockpiles into buying back their own shares, betting on a Wall Street rebound rather than investing in new operations or bumping up dividends.

Companies are pouring their cash stockpiles into buying back their own shares, betting on a Wall Street rebound rather than investing in new operations or bumping up dividends.

U.S. consumer confidence plunged in August, according to the latest reading. The level is the lowest since 1980.

Retail sales in July posted their biggest gain since March, tempering fears that the world's largest economy might be slipping back into recession.

The first people-to-people tour left Miami for Cuba on Thursday following the United States softened embargo on travel to Cuba.

The CDC reported Friday the first person in the U.S. died from a vampire bat bite last year, prompting attention to the possibility of vampire bats' expansion into the country.

U.S. stocks rose about 1 percent on Friday as mildly encouraging retail sales put the S&P on track for a two-day winning streak for the first time since mid-July as investors shrugged off weak consumer sentiment data.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ) is now looking into potential insider trading by Standard & Poor's employees before the rating agency's decision to downgrade the U.S.'s long-term debt, according to Financial Times.

Contradicting earlier official reports, the top American commander in Afghanistan told reporters that the 17 Navy SEALs killed alongside 13 other U.S. troops and eight Afghan commandos were not on a rescue mission, The Daily reported. Instead, their helicopter came under fire after they had been called in to chase fleeing Taliban fighters.