POLITICS

A child protection group is launching a television service that it hopes will help prevent sex abuse scandals like the one engulfing Penn State University's football team.

United Natural Foods Inc said it has recalled black bean tortillas shipped to four Safeway Inc stores in California because of possible contamination by botulism bacteria.

The Penn State scandal's fallout deepened Sunday as the head of The Second Mile -- a youth charity founded by Jerry Sandusky, the school's disgraced former assistant football coach -- resigned from his post.

Marius Els was killed by his pet hippopotamus Humphrey on Saturday. Six year-old Humphrey attacked the South African man at his farm, repeatedly biting and gouging his owner.

Thanksgiving dinner essentials such as Turkey, stuffing, cranberries and pumpkin pie will cost about 13 per cent more than they did in 2010, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF).

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia, in the Molucca Sea around at 1:05 p.m. local time. It was centered 42 miles southwest of the town of Labuha on the island of Pulau Bacan.

The anti-Muslim militant who killed 77 people in Norway on July 22, shattering a nation known for its open society, acknowledged carrying out the massacre but refused to plead guilty in his first public hearing since the attacks.

Tamara Mellon, Director of the high-end British fashion house Jimmy Choo, has announced, rather suddenly, her decision to step down from her role at a company she helped establish 15 years ago. There was also a second similar announcement by the brand's Chief Executive, Joshua Schulman.

After weeks of pumping oil from Rena, a Liberian ship stranded off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, salvage teams are still removing containers from the vessel in a desperate attempt to avoid an environmental disaster.

The Malaysian states of Penang and Malacca, which retain a colonial-era penal code criminalizing sodomy, are considering even stricter laws against the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender communities, allowing them the authority to punish offenders twice.

The body of a 75-year-old man that was missing after Saturday's explosion in Ohio has been found, according to the Fairborn Fire Chief.

Scientists at Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit have come up with an alternative way to meet the ever-growing demand of meat by replacing the slaughtered livestock meat with lab-grown “cultured” meat.

A digital image of the grey Rhine by German artist, Andreas Gursky has been sold to an anonymous bidder for $4.3 million at Christie's New York auction, making it one of the most expensive photograph sold at an auction.

Legendary comic book artist Frank Miller has created quite an uproar after expressing his opinion about the Occupy Wall Street movement, comparing it to a bowel movement.

As copper prices soar, the Lincoln Tomb is robbed of a 3-foot-tall sword.

Occupy Portland protesters and police confronted one another on the city's streets on Sunday, as authorities around the country try to close down encampments occupied by demonstrators for weeks.

Alleged victims of former PSU defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky are working on civil suits against the university over the administration's failure to take action, and may feature individual suits against head coach Joe Paterno and officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz. As more victims come forward, criticism of Paterno and Penn State following the grand jury report findings are growing.

If you thought she looked remarkable in head-to-toe white for her wedding to Prince William back in April, black suited the Duchess even better, as Kate Middleton donned a black outfit for her first Remembrance Day ceremony as Duchess of Cambridge on Sunday.

Saturday was the 10th anniversary of the memorial for the victims of American Airlines Flight 587, and attendance was high despite the fact that the plane crashed into the nearby neighborhood of Belle Harbor a full decade ago.

Richard Hulls captured a video of something [a large, elongated object] in the water that, at first glance, looks like a ripple or a wave. On closer observation, Hulls claims, it looks like a large sea creature -- one Hulls indicates is Ogopogo.

A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday killed 17 Revolutionary Guards and wounded 15, a representative of the elite fighting force told the semiofficial Fars news agency.

A picture may be worth a thousand words. However, for Emily Tanen, it was worth her job.

In the wake of the Pennsylvania State University child sex-abuse scandal, The Citadel military college in South Carolina revealed on Saturday that it had investigated accusations against a camp counselor, but took no action.

A Texas Family Law Judge has been placed under a temporary restraining order after he was seen beating his daughter on a video posted on YouTube.

During the first media tour of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan since its devastation in March, journalists on Saturday were not allowed to get close to the heavily damaged reactor buildings or even to leave the tour bus.

Jerry Sandusky, a former football defensive coordinator, was charged Saturday for 40 counts of alleged sexual abuse on young boys over a period of 15 years, according to the grand jury report.

Michael T. Mathews of Forbes has detailed the smartphone etiquette on date night, both pre-, during and post-date, to ensure a proper evening. The rules include protocol for Groupon, Foursquare and the inevitable decorum for Facebook friend requests.

In an effort to avoid vaccinations, parents are feeding their children chicken pox-laced lollipops.

There is nothing like some neon in the morning. Bright and early on Thursday Nov. 10, Christopher Kane debuted his Resort 2012 capsule collaboration with J Brand at Barney's New York.