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Ten young scholars have made it to the finals of the National Geographic Bee, where they'll compete for a $25,000 college scholarship.

Ten young scholars have made it to the finals of the National Geographic Bee, where they'll compete for a $25,000 college scholarship.

A large and violent tornado twisted through Moore, OK Wednesday. Injuries and fatalities are not yet known.

Children are losing their innocence at the age of 12 or younger amid increasing exposure to inappropriate and explicit material on TV, a head teacher warned today.

Analog television will be completely replaced by digital broadcasting in 2015, head of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting Volodymyr Manzhosov said during conference "Days of information society", ForUm correspondent reports.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterrorism practices during a speech Thursday, a White House official said.

One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City.

Right-wing Web radio host Pete Santilli told listeners he wants "to shoot in the vagina and I don't want her to die right away.

Source: www.irishhealth.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin is likely to have his role as chairman of the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street ended as a result of Health Minister James Reilly's recently announced hospital reorganisation plan.

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested... Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the ... (more)

The National Weather Service says there is a slight risk for severe weather on Sunday, and isolated tornadoes and supercell storms are possible.

Time-lapse video of icebreaker traveling through Antarctic seas. Two months of sequences, condensed into less than five minutes.

The National Post re-imagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. Today, Tristin Hopper looks at the week through the eyes of Mike Duffy, the newly independent Senator from P.E.I. Monday My plane has just touched down at the Charlottetown airport and I was en route to a very important keynote at the Prince Edward Island Dairy Farmers' Advancement ... (more)

Earlier this month three Ohio women were rescued after being held captive for 10 years, reigniting hope for thousands of families, who have a missing child.

Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday he is quitting the political party he founded.

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The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II will today deliver the democracy lecture of the National Commission for Civic Education.

While preparing for the North River Mills/Ice Mountain festival, I kept half expecting a phone call from our fearless leader, Steve Bailes, announcing a cancellation.