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We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich. Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.

Soldiers have always brought "booty" home from their wars, but this is ridiculous.  For thousands of years generals unable to pay with cash or gold recruited soldiers with the promise of all the booty they could bring back. So why is anybody upset with this former English soldier who took the word "booty" literally?  He brought one of Saddam Hussein's buttocks home after the 20

An East Texas couple is safe, five days after they had to flee for their lives from a sinking ship. Navy Petty Officer Second Class Tameshia Gumbs, 30, and her husband Kishan, were on the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it ran aground off the coast of Italy Friday.

People scared of flying might mark British Airways off their list of possible airline choices for good after an automated announcement mistakenly told passengers to prepare for a crash-landing — twice.

The United States and other countries in the European Union are joining together to develop a "code of conduct" that would establish rules for orbiting spacecraft and for mitigating the growing problem of debris, or "space junk".

Those who keep track of these things say the world is closer to apocalypse than most people know. The Doomsday Clock, a figurative timepiece used as a barometer of humankind’s fate, was moved one minute closer to midnight on Tuesday, the first time it has been nudged forward since 2007. It is now 11:55, five minutes before Doomsday.

Every year, Michigan’s Lake Superior State University asks people which words and phrases have been so overused that they should be essentially banished from the English language. The school just released their list for 2012, and it’s certainly stirring up debate.

President Barack Obama is accustomed to criticism from the political right, but he may be taken aback by what a noted leftist is saying about him. Venezuela’s strong man Hugo Chavez, who is as far to the left as anyone in the world, says Obama is a “clown” president and an “embarrassment” who has turned the United States into a “disaster”.