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Lisa's mother now says she last saw her daughter at 6:40 p.m. -- four hours earlier than she had initially claimed

For the upcoming Christie's Post-War and ­Contemporary Sale in New York, an artwork by Roy Lichtenstein is regarded as one of the highlights estimated at $35million-$45 million.

When Diane McEachern ventured out onto the foggy western Alaska tundra a week ago to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, she had no idea her tiny demonstration would go viral.

President Barack Obama gave a partisan-tinged speech to dedicate a new memorial to Martin Luther King Jr., likening the battle for racial equality to his political struggles in a divided Washington.

Remains of a lost German tourist, Stefan Ramin have been found in the embers of a campfire raising suspicions that he had fallen prey to an act of cannibalism.

English auto racing driver, Dan Wheldon died following a fiery racing accident on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Dan Wheldon, the 2011 Indianapolis 500 winner, died Sunday in a fiery crash on Lap 13 of the IndyCar race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in a 15-car pileup. The 33-year-old racer was a two-time Indy winner. Three other drivers were also injured, including championship contender Will Power.

A New York City McDonald's worker was arrested for brutally beating a customer with a metal rod following an altercation with the entire incident caught on video.

Thousands of people, including President Barack Obama, flocked to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication in Washington, D.C., to honor the deceased leader who spearheaded the nation's civil rights movement.

Steve Tausan, a notorious sergeant-at-arms member for the California Hells Angels biker gang, was killed while attending the funeral of Angels boss Jeffrey Jethro Pettigrew, in San Jose on Saturday.

The next time you're in the mood to narrate a murder-mystery, be wary of the words you use. Scientists and language researchers from Cornell University, NY, suggest that psychopaths are more likely to use certain word patterns than others, thereby revealing their killer instincts.

It has been two weeks since Lisa Irwin, a 10-month-old baby from Missouri went missing from her home. The search, so far, has yielded few concrete results. In what must be some good news at long last for the child's parents, investigators have found newly-soiled diapers and a backpack from an abandoned home near the Irwin residence.

A new biography by award-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith has claimed that troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh did not kill himself but died in an accident.

Philadelphia police, on Saturday, discovered four mentally disturbed adults - three males and one female - suffering from malnutrition. The four were found locked in a secret room in an apartment basement.

Air France and Airbus have announced that they have completed the world's greenest commercial flight by combining the latest fuel and air traffic management technologie

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has been selected to provide U.S.-based NASA with up to three charter flights on SpaceShipTwo, under a contract with a value of up to $4.5m.

Notorious Doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping, of the Family Radio mission, has returned with the prediction that the world will end on OCtober 21, 2011 -- a day when the Rapture promised to take place earlier his year, in May, will finally seperate the chaff from the grain.

A stretch of Los Angeles freeway will be closed for several hours on Sunday while authorities blow up three compressed hydrogen tanks that were damaged in an explosion and fire, officials said.

A massive algae bloom on the waters of Lake Erie in the U.S. is believed to pose a significant threat to aquatic life forms in the lake.

Lady Gaga won an injunction at London's High Court on Monday to stop Lady Goo Goo, an animated character from releasing a single.

French-Canadian porn star Alex Torres stunned the world after releasing a video of his skydiving sex stunt, having sex in midair with his receptionist after jumping out of a plane. If you think the sex stunt was ridiculous, here are 15 other crazy activities people engage in midair while skydiving.

If you believe radio evangelist Harold Camping, then the end of the world is less than a week away. Again. This time around, the date has been set for Oct. 21 (i.e., next Friday).

As the search for missing baby Lisa Irwin wraps up its second week with few clues, an anonymous wealthy benefactor offered a $100,000 reward for the safe return of 10-month-old Lisa.

San Diego, which has been touted as having one of the best climates in the United States, is also the luckiest, according to a new ranking.

River Ranch Fresh Foods is recalling 2,154 cases of bagged salad because of possible contamination by listeria monocytogenes, the Salinas, Calif., company said.

Nostalgic rock was the theme of Pandora's 2011 Autumn/Winter collection, with a diverse range of jewelry pieces, forms and finishes all on offer.

Three women in possession of 33 condoms containing semen were arrested and charged with 17 counts of aggravated sexual assault by the Zimbabwe police Friday. The arrest is believed to be a break in a series of sexual assaults over male hitchhikers over the past two years by women.

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A day after California prison officials declared a 3-week-old hunger strike by thousands of convicts over, an inmate advocacy group said on Friday that at least 150 prisoners were still refusing to eat.