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The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts.

Review one of the Guardian fiction prize 2013 longlisted books and be in with a chance of winning the complete set! The Guardian is celebrating the best of this year's children's fiction with our annual prize, the Guardian children's fiction prize , and we'd like you to be involved too.

Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is screening documentary films recording changes in China.

The Delta Protection Commission voted 9-2 on May 24 to oppose the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to build the peripheral tunnels as currently drafted.

Actor Tim Curry has suffered a major stroke, but friends say Dr. Frank-N-Furter will prevail over this health crisis.

An elementary school has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible nationwide.

The Stampede's free Coca-Cola Stage will once again be stacked with an eclectic array of national talent this year - including some, as usual, that's homegrown.

Sharon Stone, Kylie Minogue and Paris Hilton were among the stars who helped raise money for Aids research at the 20th amfAR gala in Cannes.

"Four Christmases" is a hilarious comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon .

They will lead a collection of musical royalty to help the inaugural Junction 16 Festival in Betley turn the last of its three days into a celebration of the world-famous Manchester sound from the 1980s and 90s.

The Fresno City Council on Thursday awarded a contract for $1.48 million to Floyd Johnston Construction of Clovis to build the Sugar Pine Trail pedestrian undercrossing at Shepherd Avenue west of Millbrook Avenue in northeast Fresno.

Amazon's new Kindle Worlds service will give fan fiction writers a place to publish their work and earn royalties.

Bosses behind the video game-turned-movie series, which stars Milla Jovovich, had planned to fill an open air swimming pool in London with fake blood and human body parts over the weekend to promote the release of the latest game, Resident Evil Revelations.

Michigan State Police are looking for Saginaw County teens, ages 14-16, to participate in the MSP Youth Leadership Academy for one week this summer.

Recent alums, from left, Tom Wang, Jessica Chiep, and Ronald Liu at Storrs Center, where they plan to open a new Asian restaurant in the fall.

James Brokenshire, Home Office minister for security, said police cuts will not impact on the government's efforts to clamp down on cyber crime Security minister James Brokenshire has insisted that the government was trying to "up its game" in tackling the cyber security threat despite cutbacks to policing, after a report highlighted a 785m loss to ... (more)

How's your bedroom hygiene? If a sleep therapist asks you this, they aren't interested in your vacuuming habits or laundry routine.

May 22--SANDWICH -- Just two weeks after voters soundly defeated a proposed $30 million public safety complex, town leaders will discuss what went wrong and how they can meet the needs of the police and fire departments.

Backbeat Books will publish the first volume of Eric Clapton, Day by Day: The Early Years: 1963-1982 on May 28, 2013.

A cyclist rides over a cycling/walking link attached to the side of the North Arm Bridge of the Canada Line.