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A monastery in north Taiwan's Taoyuan County held the nation's first same-sex Buddhist wedding Saturday, signaling dying opposition in the Asian nation towards gay rights.

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, USS Porter, collided with a Japanese-owned and Panamanian-flagged bulk-oil tanker, M/V Otowasan, on Sunday at 1 a.m. local time just outside the strategically important Strait of Hormuz between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, according to the U.S. 5th Fleet.

Fatal Idaho Highway Accident Caused By Gnawing Gophers

A rare dime from 1873 sold for $1.6 million to an anonymous bidder at an auction in Philadelphia.

The toll from the two earthquakes that struck northwestern Iran Saturday stands at 250 to 300 people dead and more than 2,000 injured, Iranian state television said Sunday.

Two strong earthquakes struck northwest Iran Saturday, killing 87 people, injuring hundreds and scaring thousands into fleeing their homes as aftershocks continued to hit the area, state media said.

A two-minute-long video taken from inside the cockpit of a small airplane that crashed into a protected wilderness area in Idaho in June with four passengers aboard has gone viral online after being uploaded to YouTube by survivors.

Fareed Zakaria, a columnist for Time magazine and a CNN host, has apologized to Jill Lepore for plagiarizing her work in the New Yorker. Some sections of Zakaria's column called "The Case for Gun Control" were closely tied to a lengthier article on guns written by historian Jill Lepore in April.

The in-flight entertainment offered by a Vietnam airline -- bikini-clad beauty queens dancing in the aisle to a song that included the lyric, "I go crazy for banana" -- has caused the government to levy a nearly $1,000 fine.

A woman in China who went to Changsha Central Hospital was in for a surprise when she sought help for an itch in her left ear. Doctors removed a spider from her ear canal that had been living inside her for five days.

The search for missing 12-year-old Tia Sharp has turned into a murder investigation after the girl's body was found Friday at her grandmother's home near London.

A conservative group known as Jews and Christians Together believes presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney shouldn't make it to November, and it is urging Tampa delegates to dump him if they want a Republican to win.

India celebrated "Janmashtami" on Friday marking the birth of Hindu god "Krishna" with fervor and joy across the country. Tiny tots dressed up as little Krishna and Radha, his consort, in colorful clothes and elaborate jewelry, participated with enthusiasm, adding color to the celebrations.

The death toll from five days of torrential rains and subsequent floods in the Philippines climbed to 60 Friday while weather forecasts predict more rains across the main island of Luzon. Rescue and relief efforts are under way to help hundreds of thousands of people affected that crippled the capital Manila and surrounding areas.

A 14-year-old girl, Nadia Ilse, who was bullied for her ears got plastic surgery after she could no longer stand the "elephant ears" and "dumbo" taunts. After being viciously bullied because of her looks Ilse now says, "I look beautiful, this is exactly what I wanted, I love it," she said post-surgery.

A Michigan college was arraigned Thursday on charges he murdered his father, who remains missing after he disappeared late last month.

Online forum Reddit is home to all kind of users, and all of those users are seeking to find another new home on Reddit Island. The community based around the front page of the internet plans to make an island home for themselves, but the Reddit community might not make the best society.

It's new, it's got a scary name, it will make policing New York easier, and it's going to be marketed for profit: Meet the "Domain Awareness System"

JetBlue pilot Clayton Osbon had a psychotic episode in jail after being arrested for disrupting a cross-country flight by exiting the cockpit and ranting about religion and terrorism. The cause of his psychosis may sound familiar to many pilots: lack of sleep.

Two months after the Miami face-eating attack by alleged cannibal Rudy Eugene that took place over Memorial Day weekend which grabbed worldwide attention, the victim, Ronald Poppo, has finally spoken out. Poppo detailed the attack that took place on the MacArthur Highway to police in a full statement released on Thursday, summing the harrowing event up: "He just ripped me to ribbons."

Italian divers have found the remains of a ship off Genoa that is thought to have sunk as long as 2,000 years ago.

The video of a buxom Russian woman inadvertently filming her breasts while she balanced on a beam high above ground has spread over the Internet like wildfire. In just a few days the 'skywalker' has gained international attention with page views numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

Wade Michael Page shot himself to death Sunday and was not killed by a policeman after his murderous rampage at a Wisconson Sikh temple, authorities said Wednesday.

Police found a gun at the home of the 31-year-old ex-girlfriend of Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page. She is a nursing school student -- but also a felon, barred from having firearms.

The Amish are one of the fast-growing religious groups in North America though you would be hard pressed to notice, according to a study released by Ohio State University on July 27.

An Australian prostitute has won her case against a motel whose owner refused to rent her a room after a court had ruled the act discriminatory.

Though Twitter tried to safeguard itself by not immediately releasing to the police information on a user who threatened a gun massacre at a theater, legal experts say the social media site could have paid dearly for the decision

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, raised its estimates for third-quarter earnings to $1 a share from 94 cents apparently because of higher demand as well as the initial impact of firing 27,000 employees to shave costs.

Flat broke Nadya Suleman, better known as "Octomom," created a lot of buzz recently by turning to a new porn and stripping career and according to her, it was the Orange County (Calif.) Child Protective Services that encouraged her to do so.