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New cancer cases and mortality rates linked to the disease have fallen significantly in recent years for almost all gender and ethnic groups in the United States, researchers said Monday.

A U.S. citizen has been charged with alleged involvement in planning last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, the Justice Department said Monday.

A rise in skepticism among Americans over global warming is mostly due to changes among Republicans, according to CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey.

Amanda Knox is in an Italian jail, sentenced to spend the next 26 years there for the 2007 slaying of her roommate Meredith Kercher while the two were exchange students in Italy.

Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said.

The Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their destination city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 21 have blamed air traffic controllers for the snafu.

It emerged in anger and it threatens to split in anger.

Google announced Monday the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results.

Billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson on Monday unveiled the winged rocket his company developed to give paying customers a brief taste of space.

Chairman Ben Bernanke said he's confident the Federal Reserve will make money on the trillions it has pumped into the economy since 2008, CNNMoney reports.

U.S., China have not offered to go far enough to combat climate change, a top EU official says as climate summit opens.

The Environmental Protection Agency says greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare.

Members of the rock band Weezer are thankful for their tour bus driver, who significantly reduced the amount of damage in what could have been a much more tragic accident Sunday morning.

Senate debate on a sweeping health care bill proceeds to one of the most controversial issues Monday: an amendment to tighten restrictions on federal funding for abortion.

No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 2 Texas -- the first-ever BCS Championship clash of 13-0 teams -- seems to warrant some grandiose, hyperbolic, "Game of the Century"-type nickname.

Hundreds of millions of dollars is a lot to spend on a film featuring a bunch of blue aliens -- but that's exactly what Fox Features has done with new 3D sci-fi "Avatar," which the movie studio says is the most expensive production it has ever made.

A Texas inmate who escaped last week -- on foot even though he was thought to need a wheelchair -- has been recaptured, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a posting on its Web site.

Despite a heavy police presence in and around Tehran, demonstrators took to the streets on Monday to protest Iran's regime as the country marked a key national anniversary.

NEW YORK -- Best day of football of the year? Well, at least it was the best set of early games, with the most dramatic missed field goal of 2009, the Saints falling out of a Redwood and landing on their feet, Michael Vick actually engendering love, the Dolphins making a race of the AFC East, Bruce Gradkowski imitating Joe Montana, and the Colts and Saints -- the first time two teams have been unbeaten this late in any NFL season -- approaching perfection as polar opposites.

Anthony Mancini

Top aides to President Obama signaled that some U.S. troops could head home from Afghanistan by July 2011, but most would likely remain for several years.

The drumbeat rousing world leaders to action on climate change is fading out as delegates get down to the business of negotiating a global deal at climate talks in Copenhagen.

Two people were killed and 20 injured when a suicide bomber detonated outside a district courthouse in Peshawar on Monday, authorities said.

The U.S. government warned consumers Sunday to avoid oysters from San Antonio Bay in Texas after investigators found the oysters caused a highly contagious virus.

More than 20,000 pounds of beef have been recalled by a California company amid worries the meat is linked to two cases of salmonella, a federal food safety agency said.

The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital.

President Barack Obama met Sunday with Senate Democrats to try to rally support for a sweeping health care bill undergoing a heated debate in the chamber.

Zhu Zhu Pets, one of this year's hottest holiday toys, are under fire from a consumer Web site that claims the robotic hamsters carry high levels of a toxic chemical.