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The Senate decision Wednesday comes after months of delays and arm twisting of lawmakers sympathetic to the bill but representing conservative districts. It follows a referendum in Maine earlier this month that struck down a gay marriage law before it...

Former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud assassinated Ms Benazir Bhutto, who has finally met his fate, said Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani while addressing Pakistan community here Wednesday. The Prime Minister said the present government had to make unpopular decisions...

Yahoo! announced that it is integrating Facebook Connect across its properties today, giving the world’s biggest social network a prominent stage for showing how its social graph can interact with content...Connect on mail, news, sports and finance, letting users show...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, invoking "separation of powers," said Rogers will not testify alongside the gate-crashers and Secret Service officials despite an invitation from House Republicans to do so. Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that the White House has...

A new Victoria's Secret "angel" is getting her wings after an online vote. Kylie Bisutti of Simi Valley, California, was the winner of a reality show-style contest to choose a model for the lingerie runway show's CBS broadcast on Tuesday....

Nokia forecast its handset unit's operating profit margin would be 12-14% next year, in line with what it reached earlier this year, but well below levels hit in the boom times, when it managed above 20%. "I think consensus was...

Philippines�A scion of the influential Ampatuan clan, who is also the vice governor of Maguindanao, was briefly held by police on Monday after Army personnel recovered what they thought to be unlicensed firearms from his alleged police escorts in Mamasapano,...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday met in Lebanon with officials from Hamas' political bureau, with whom he discussed the two Iran-backed militant groups' relations and U.S. policy in the Middle East. Hezbollah's Al-Manar television network, which reported the meeting,...

Looks like there's a chance Florida State coach Bobby Bowden can take one final shot at his rivals to the south. The Miami Hurricanes , in the middle of their best season since 2005, could have their bowl fate affected...

Lawyers for a terrorism suspect who spent nearly five years in American government custody before being sent to Manhattan for prosecution in a civilian court have asked a judge to dismiss his indictment, saying that the authorities had violated his...