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Freddie Mercury, who would have turned 70 on Monday, has had an asteroid named after him to celebrate the occasion.

Some antibacterial washes can no longer be marketed, and there's no evidence they are any better than plain soap and water, FDA says.

Goodbye, summer of 2016.

Making sure your little ones get enough sleep just might be one of the best things you could do for their health, both now and later on, experts say.

Donald Trump in a recent speech was actually backing away from one of his most controversial GOP primary-season immigration proposals -- mass deportations -- former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday.

There's mixed news in the animal kingdom, as one beloved species celebrates increased numbers and another slips closer to extinction.

US soccer international and Seattle Reign midfielder Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem before her team's clash with the Chicago Red Stars in a show of solidarity with San Francisco 49ers' quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Just when we thought the world's largest indoor theme park was hard to top, Dubai proves us wrong yet again.

Turkey sent tanks and armored vehicles into the Syrian border town of Al-Rai Saturday, effectively opening up a new front in its campaign against ISIS, Turkish state media reported.

Hermine's march up the coast was shifting east Sunday, increasing the threat of bad weather for parts of eastern Long Island, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

The health of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has improved as doctors treat him for a "severe infection," his Facebook page said Monday.

When an earthquake struck Oklahoma on Saturday, one of the first steps state officials took was to shut down 37 of the state's 3,200 active disposal wells -- a move that drew national attention to the link between oil and gas drilling and earthquakes.

An alleged gang member opened fire while he was visiting a county jail in California, leaving two veteran correctional officers critically wounded, authorities said.

As the scenes outside India's trains shift from the lush tea gardens of northeastern Assam to the Arabian Sea along India's western coast, the snack offerings at the stations vary from mitha dahi (sweet yogurt) to idli (steamed rice cakes).

The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, his mother told Minneapolis television station KARE in a text on Saturday.

Too lenient is how critics condemned the six-month jail sentence for Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer convicted of three felonies for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

Police in the Philippines are looking for three people they want to question -- one man and two women -- in connection with the blast at a crowded market in Davao City that killed 14 people Friday night.

A United States spy agency is apologizing for a tweet that jabbed at China over its treatment of American reporters who had traveled with President Barack Obama to cover the G20 meeting there.

If you saw someone being harassed in a public space, you tell yourself you'd intervene on behalf of the victim, or report it.

Heller is the co-founder of Ruthless Records, the label behind hip-hop group N.W.A., which launched the careers of rappers Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Easy-E in the 1980s.