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Television veteran David Frost received an honorary International Emmy on Monday at the annual awards for TV produced outside the United States, with five of the prizes going to Britain and Brazil winning its first Emmy. Frost was presented with...

Australasian gannets once thought to pair-bond for life have a divorce rate similar to humans. Steffi Ismar from Auckland University says it has always been assumed the birds are monogamous, and they have been held up as an example of...

Switzerland — A bear has attacked a man who entered its enclosure at a new park in Switzerland, and a policeman opened fire on the animal to defend the intruder. Police say the 25-year-old man and the 3-year-old bear both...

But you can stop scratching now. eBay just completed the spinout of voice and chat service Skype, receiving $2.05 billion in cash and IOU notes from a consortium of private investment firms . Since eBay is keeping a 30% stake...

The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday. Polanski has proposed "very...

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In an attempt to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang, beams of particles will again be sent whizzing round the giant atom smasher, deep under the Swiss and French countryside. But forget the previous scare that the $10 billion...

As you may have read yesterday, Aaron Hicklin, editor of OUT magazine, wrote an open letter to American Idol season 8 runner-up Adam Lambert, accusing the singer and his management team of the following: only agreeing to the OUT cover...

DNA from the last two populations of the Floreana mockingbird has revealed important clues to the history of the species, which will be used to guide conservation strategies in the Galápagos islands. The bird, Mimus trifasciatus, was one of the...

The meeting, held in Rome by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has been addressing the growing global hunger crisis...The FAO says the number of people going hungry has breached the one billion mark this year for the...