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The Glascock County High School Lady Panthers Varsity Softball Team is sitting down together for the first time to talk about a game from earlier this month. It was game, according to the scoreboard, they did not win. However, one could argue that what they did on the field meant much more than the final […]

Would you want to be remembered most for the money you made or the money you gave away? These 12 “Titans of Philanthropy,” who grace the cover of Forbes magazine for its 30th annual Forbes 400 issue, which ranks the richest people in the world, have clearly chosen the latter path. The portrait, taken by […]

NASA’s Opportunity rover, older brother to the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars last month, has made a discovery that geologists find both puzzling and exciting, the US space agency says. Opportunity, which has been on the Red Planet since 2004, has come across an outcrop of tiny spheres – up to around three millimetres […]

Guinness World Records is calling it the tallest mohawk in the world. A fashion designer from Tokyo showed off his 1.13-meter hairdo in a New York City park on Wednesday. Kazuhiro Watanabe, 44, says he’s been growing the hair for 15 years. He says to make it stand upright, it takes stylists two hours, one […]

U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday delivered an unapologetic defense of American values and his under-fire Arab Spring policy, speaking to U.S. voters from a world stage at the U.N. His Republican foe Mitt Romney also muscled in on the hoopla surrounding the annual U.N. General Assembly, striking a statesmanlike pose at the nearby New York […]

High-speed crooks and hoodlums may have skipped a heartbeat upon hearing the news that NSW Police have just taken delivery of a Porsche – but it’s not the supercar the bad guys might have been fearing. The Porsche Panamera sedan on loan to the Harbourside Local Area Command – the region immediately north of the […]

A visit to the factory of the Haier group in China’s north-eastern city of Qingdao is initially a daunting experience. In hall after vast hall, tens of thousands of trim young workers in neat uniforms work on assembly lines of refrigerators, airconditioners, washing machines and other gadgets. At the entrance to the dining hall is […]

US lawmakers united by their respect for the Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have presented her with Congress’ highest civilian honor in a grandiose ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. Suu Kyi, who described Wednesday as “one of the most moving days of my life”, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2008, while […]

Heavily armed insurgents have attacked a British air base in southern Afghanistan, killing two US Marines and wounding several other troops, US officials say. Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, is stationed at the base on a four-month combat tour in Afghanistan. There was no immediate word on his whereabouts at the […]

With a flood of orders coming for the new iPhone 5, Apple pushed back delivery times for the new device on its website Friday. Apple’s U.S. website said that for those ordering the new smartphone, shipping would be in two weeks, a week later than promised. The new iPhone may be available at Apple retail […]