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The day is almost half-way over as the sun slowly fades in brightness over Hongdae, where hundreds of restaurants, bars, night clubs, and shops cover the streets and become an important center for night life in Seoul, South Korea.

Natural gas is not as effective as it is used to be thought in improving earth's climatic condition, suggest scientists. Even though natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, its effectiveness in solving earth's climate woes has been questioned by a new U.S. study.

A demonstration by thousands of protesters at Tahrir Square in Egypt’s capital city of Cairo turned violent late Friday.

A federal judge has ruled that a government agency must pick up the pace in approving, rejecting species for the endangered list.

The majority of Democrats, Republicans and Independent voters all believe that climate change is happening, according to a new poll. Only the Tea Party does not. What does this mean for Republican presidential candidates who want to do well both in the primaries and in the general election?

Republican Bob Turner and Democrat David Weprin are up for Weiner’s seat in Sept. 13 election.

New Mexico governor admits paternal grandparents came to U.S. ‘without documents.’

Weather disasters of 2011 may have been partly caused by global warming, a climate report suggests.

As Dawn chips away at paying back her $18,000 debt load, the 45-year old swears she'll never use credit again.

For one professional commuting to Midtown Manhattan, the warm, crystal-clear blue sky summer day after a vacation dawned like any other, first-day back from vacation. Until 8:46 a.m. EDT.

Jacqueline O. Kennedy thought Martin Luther King Jr. was tricky and terrible, according to never-before released tapes obtained by ABC News.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appeared alongside his son, Kim Jong-un at a military parade in Pyongyang's central square. Kim Jong-un is the North Korean heir-apparent, and the rare public appearance with his father is a further sign that he3 is being groomed for a leadership role.

No sector appears immune, including technology, which is supposed to be the source of future prosperity

Cameron is expected to confer with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev as well as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Waters receding, but still causing concern.

Weak jobs and housing starts data for August doused any hopes for robust growth after a bleak second quarter, underscoring its vulnerability to a struggling U.S. economy and the widening European debt crisis.

The World Trade Center and the Pentagon had already been struck when newly minted fighter pilot Lt. Heather Lucky Penney took to the sky on the morning of 9/11, determined to bring down a fourth plane that was hurtling toward Washington, D.C.

Evidence found in Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan indicated that he wanted to attack the United States on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.

Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Moammar Gadhafi, the deposed Libyan leader who is currently in hiding. The international policing agency is reaching out to law-enforcement offices around the world with the hope that Gadhafi will be found and eventually extradited to the International Criminal Court for trial.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 stunned the United States and the world, and pushed both in to a new era: The day remains the most important international event since the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

President Barack Obama on Thursday directed U.S. intelligence officials to take all precautions after receiving credible intelligence that al-Qaida militants in Pakistan may be pursuing a plot to carry out car or truck bombings in Washington, D.C., and New York City to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Investors are likely skeptical about the efficacy of Obama’s jobs program and whether or not such a massive scheme would pass Congress.

China and the United States should reduce trade and investment barriers to create jobs, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Friday, striking a broadly cooperative tone in his first official public address since assuming the position in August.

President Barack Obama's freshly unveiled $447 billion jobs plan would substantially boost the economy by creating 1.9 million payroll jobs and growing the U.S. economy 2 percent, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi said.

International police organization Interpol issued a 'Red Notice' for deposed Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi. Meanwhile, more loyalists flee the country.

In the immediate wake of the terrorist strikes in New York and Washington D.C., when Osama bin Laden's face become plastered across TV sets, people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh suddenly became viewed with extreme suspicion and in some case abuse.

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Major global banks have been jettisoning workers en masse for the past few months – the brutal manifestation of a grim new economic landscape.

Yahoo’s summary firing of CEO Carol Bartz knocked out one of the most visible women CEOs but also showed a phenomenon called the “glass cliff,” a technology professional women’s association said.