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Color-coded denim cloths cover the row upon row of black body bags atop cold metal tables. Blue means a body that eventually will go into a common grave. Tan, the family wants those remains back for burial, eventually. These are bodies donated to science, awaiting one of the most sensitive …

Brazilian police are trying to find the blogger who claims to be exposing the names of unfaithful partners online, the U.K. Daily Mail reported. The unidentified blogger, from the small rural town of Lagoa da Prata, in Minas Gerais, reportedly has identified 300 supposed cheaters on a popular social networking …

GENEVA – The campaign posters are inflammatory: Minarets rising like missiles from the national flag. A proposal championed by right-wing parties to ban minarets in Switzerland goes to a nationwide vote on Sunday in a referendum that has set off an emotional debate about national identity and stirred fears of …

TAMPA, Fla. — Wildlife officials say they spent hours searching for a monkey on the lam in the Tampa area and couldn’t locate the animal. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the monkey was first spotted in a tree in a residential area late Wednesday morning. Investigators …

It’s the news all chocolate lovers have been waiting for — a type of chocolate that helps you lose weight is about to go on sale. The new variety — called Lola chocs — is 100 percent natural and tastes exactly like normal chocolate. But the big difference, according to …

WASHINGTON — Astronomer and long time science advocate Carl Sagan once said that he was “not very good at singing songs.” But on Nov. 9 in Washington D.C., his voice could be heard singing about the wonders of universe — 13 years after his death. “A Glorious Dawn” is a …

Authorities have arrested a man in the killing of one of six women found murdered in recent years in a poor, rural North Carolina county. Antwan Maurice Pittman, 31, was charged with murder in the death of 28-year-old Taraha Senice Nicholson, according to WRAL. He was last known to have …

Iran is at a crossroads and has “decisions to make” over its pursuit of nuclear technology, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. Gibbs was responding to concerns about the disclosure last week of a secret Iranian nuclear facility — ahead of a highly anticipated meeting that will address …

Some Tea Party people, along with commentators like Glenn Beck and some other radio guys, believe the Obama administration and progressives in general want to curtail individual freedom. And you know what? That might be true. Right now there is a case before the Supreme Court, McDonald v. Chicago, where …

Erotic capital, as described by sociologist Catherine Hakim of the London School of Economics in her 2010 paper on the subject, consists of a collection of attributes including physical fitness, good grooming, superior social skills, and sex appeal. When taken together, these qualities form a powerful personal asset. Of course, …