Epidemiologists are tracking global disease by parsing Google News sources and public health list-serves into data that could provide an early warning about the next big disease outbreak.

TMZ.com: Mark Burnett, the mastermind behind "Survivor" and "The Apprentice," has been sued by his former business partner for allegedly screwing him out of a massive amount of profits.Conrad Riggs claims he helped turn Mark Burnett into MARK BURNETT by... Read more

Almost half the coral reef ecosystems in United States territory are in poor or fair condition, mostly because of rising ocean temperatures, according to a government report released Monday

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Filed under: Multimedia, Video, Education, iTunes, AppleUsers of iTunes U, the free educational content channel inside iTunes, will have a lot more elementary education material to choose from -- the states of Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah have all added some of their K-12 material to the mix, and a number of school districts and museums from those states have also contributed videos and audio recordings.The
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MGM Mirage officials are investigating the death of a dolphin at an aquatic habitat at The Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.

Arkansas emergency management officials say a woman's death from injuries suffered during the Feb. 5 tornado outbreak brings the state's death toll from the storms to 14.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis reached a financial settlement with six men who claimed they were sexually molested by five priests as far back as the 1960s, a victims' advocacy group said Monday.

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TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Group of Eight negotiators have reached a tentative agreement on climate change that will be put to their leaders on Tuesday, sources familiar with the talks said, potentially resolving the stickiest issue at their summit.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Victor Willis, the original lead singer of disco-era band Village People, underwent surgery at a San Diego hospital on Monday to remove nodules from his vocal cords, his spokeswoman said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman gave birth on Monday to her first biological child, a daughter named Sunday fathered by her husband and country music star Keith Urban.

Ten missions remain, including the Oct. 8 liftoff of Atlantis to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope and the Nov. 10 launch of Endeavour on a flight to equip the international space station with new life-support equipment.

The Gerd Arntz Web Archive collects graphics from the career of the man who - in creating over 4000 Isotypes for social scientist Otto Neurath in 1930s Red Vienna - can make a serious claim to be the inventor of the modern stick figure. He attacked the corruption of German society as the Nazis rose to power, then joined Neurath in an attempt to create a transnational visual language that bore later fruit in Otl Aicher's 1972 Olympic pictograms an
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kittens -You can worry about the FISA bill, or you can watch kittens, it's up to you. (SLYT*kittens)

"Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was in Denver, CO, today for a town hall meeting. The event, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, was billed as 'open to the public.' Yet Carole Kreck, a 61-year-old librarian carrying a 'McCain=Bush' sign, was taken away by police [on orders from McCain's security detail] for trespassing. A police officer told Kreck:'You have two choices. You can keep your sign here and receive a ticket for trespassing, or you c
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SpotMixer, which allows you to create your own TV commercials online, will announce tomorrow that its customers can now distribute their ads through Google AdWords and its TV Ads service. In doing so, SpotMixer essentially becomes an all-in-one shop for both creating and distributing TV commercials, as you can now buy air-time on all [...]