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Nicolas Sarkozy lost his presidential reelection bid in France to Francois Hollande on Sunday with only 48.4 percent of the votes to Hollande's 51.7 percent. While the new presidency means some sweeping changes for the country, it also means there will be a new first lady. Her name is Valerie Trierweiler, Hollande's girlfriend, and she is cut from a different cloth than France's soon-to-be former Premiere Femme, Carla Bruni.

Octomom Nadya Suleman must have never thought while going for her seventh pregnancy that one day her decision would land her in a state that she would have to agree to get into pornography to be able to pay her bills. But that's what just happened.

'Mad Men' brings to life a vanished world that existed just before I was born and which I admire and long for.

Ian Somerhalder has been a smoldering TV sensation for quite a few years now. After heating it up with co-star (and real life love) Nina Dobrev for three seasons of The Vampire Diaries, Somerhalder has stepped up his charity work.

An Iranian Islamic cleric has denounced western politicians for decriminalizing homosexuality, saying that such politicians are worse than animals.Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, an influential scholar, while interpreting the Sharia law in a speech in Iran's Qom city, said that homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, a Khabar Online report said.

Researchers figured out how the brain can focus on one speaker in a crowded room, a finding that could lead not only to better hearing aids and cochlear implants, but to better smartphones as well.

Cherry-picking a mere 100 people from across the world and from across all walks of life and getting everyone to agree to it is practically impossible.

The Massachusetts congressman told the New York Times Magazine that he believes its important for him to marry while he's still in office.

On my first visit back to my neighbourhood street after a long stint of living abroad, I felt l was plunging headfirst into the Great Indian melting pot.

We need to get today's youth out of the virtual world and into the outdoors.

The count down has begun for North Korea's controversial rocket launch, which is scheduled to take place between April 12 and 16, any time between 7 a.m. to noon local time. North Korea has made it clear that it would not budge to the international pressure to halt the launch.

The final coroner's report on Whitney Houston revealed that her death was due to drowning caused by heart disease and cocaine use.

Actress Ashley Judd was picked as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., this summer, bringing some star power to the political event.

Women and children in rural areas of Afghanistan consume opium on a regular basis to cure their illnesses. The Afghans believe that opium has curative powers.

Women infected with two separate human immunodeficiency virus strains have a stronger immune response than women infected with a single HIV strain, a finding that could assist in producing the elusive anti-HIV vaccine, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.

A new research study says marijuana-like substances may help in treating and suppressing HIV.

The United States should worry more about North Korea's cyber attack capabilities than its nuclear arsenel, if the latest reports are any indication. A Bloomberg report has quoted General James Thurman, Commander of the United Nations Command and US Forces in Korea, as saying that Pyongyang has roped in hackers who possess cyber inflitration capabilities. North Korea employs sophisticated computer hackers trained to launch cyber infiltration and cyber attacks, Thurman was quoted as sa...

The US has warned that North Korea's rocket launch in April, which the West alleges is a missile in disguise, will be directed towards Australia and South East Asia and not towards Japan, as reported earlier.

He may be President Obama's choice to lead the World Bank, but it looks like Dartmouth's president Jim Yong Kim has other talents - rapping, singing and dancing.

The group UltraViolet said it hoped Obama's nominee, a doctor with extensive experience in public health and now Dartmouth College's president, will be a champion for women and girls throughout the world.

Kim, 52, will be the first physician to head the bank and the second U.S. nominee to have been born abroad. He has served as Dartmouth College's president since 2009.