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Are book lovers in Latin America just as thrilled with Jane Austen's works as so many readers are in other parts of the world? That's what professor and Austen enthusiast Amy Elizabeth Smith wanted to find out. Which Jane Austen novel is your favorite?

Thousands of software and application engineers have already sold out next week?s developers conference mounted by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company. Here are four key highlights.

Police in Los Angeles are in contact with Canadian officials to determine if Luka Rocco Magnotta -- the Canadian Psycho who allegedly murdered his gay lover before being apprehend in Germany -- was involved in the death and decapitation of a victim in Hollywood earlier this year.

No, it wasn't Hugh Jackman in costume or a figment of his imagination. A hiker in California named David Messa snapped pictures of a wolverine, the fourth ever to be caught on film, while on a hiking trip in the Sierras. View the slideshow to see photos of the wolverine sighting from 2008, the third sighting in the Tahoe National Forest.

Thanks to a NASA-sponsored expedition to the Arctic Ocean in the summers of 2010 and 2011, scientists have found an area underneath sea ice, which is richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on the Earth.

Here are some things you might not know about Timothy Bradley.

Space shuttle Enterprise took its final journey Wednesday to its retirement home on a floating museum off the western edge of New York City and you can check it out in person in just over a month's time.

Erin Moran?s days are not so happy anymore, as the actress who played Joanie Cunningham on ?Happy Days? is reportedly broke and living in a trailer park. But that's not the most shocking aspect of the new report. According to a family friend, Moran who played the younger sister of Richie Cunningham played by Ron Howard, looks haggard at 51-years-old. View the slideshow to see photos of Erin Moran then and now.

anetta?s bluntness suggests that the façade of cordiality between Washington and Islamabad has all but evaporated

LinkedIn confessed it had a data breach that compromised the passwords of some of its members, the social networking site said on Wednesday.

It could take days before California counts all the votes in a controversial proposal that would add a steep tax to cigarettes, but an unofficial count currently shows it defeated by a narrow margin.

A newly discovered type of stem cell could explain how blood vessels become hardened and brittle in the later stages of cardiovascular disease.

Democratic candidates backed by wealthy advocates for charter schools squeaked past rivals backed by teachers unions in two California state assembly primary races on Tuesday, highlighting a bitter split in the Democratic Party over education policy.

Apple is no longer the leader in the U.S. online movie business, as Netflix has surpassed the Cupertino tech giant's iTunes services in 2011 to become the largest American online movie service in revenue terms, a recent report from market research firm IHS iSuppli has shown.

Now that the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, has lost 32 percent of its value, technology giants including International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) are on a shopping spree. That may chill the IPO pipeline.

Despite having had the opportunity to elect two candidates from the same party for the November general election runoff, by putting to test the new system of choosing the Top Two from the primary, California 10th Congressional voters chose Republican Jeff Denham and Democrat Jose Hernandez Tuesday.

For the very last time this century, skywatchers and astronomers around the world got the opportunity to witness the rare astronomical reunion of the Sun, Venus and Earth Tuesday. Venus, the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, made a rare pass in front of the Sun, making its presence in the solar system visible from Earth's day side.

California voters have approved of Proposition 29 to hike the tobacco tax by $1 per pack of cigarettes, to fund cancer research

The question of whether gay marriage is legal or heralding the destruction of civilization, is not yet an issue ripe for the court?s final word.

A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider striking down California's prohibition on same-sex marriage, increasing the likelihood that the issue will reach the Supreme Court.

Young the Giant is hoping to capitalize this summer on all of the momentum they've built up in 2012 thus far.