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British Gas still has five employees who work as lamplighters, tending to the more than 1,000 centuries-old gas lamps that still line some of London's oldest neighborhoods.

HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Republican officials have tapped newly elected Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst to deliver the party's formal response to President Barack Obama's…

Badawi is being publicly flogged 50 times each week over 20 weeks for insulting Islam. He is set to receive 50 lashes Friday in the Saudi port city of Jiddah.

A new study finds that the academic disciplines most associated with "geniuses" are also the fields in which women are underrepresented.

Caesars — the giant gambling company — put its largest unit into bankruptcy on Thursday. The company was acquired by private equity firms Apollo and TPG in 2008 just as the financial crisis was pushing the economy into recession. It never recovered and has more than $20 billion in debt.

In an announcement, the company said Glass is not dead, it's just going through a "transition.

Jason Comely's fear of rejection was so strong that he'd become completely isolated. So he set out to get himself rejected at least once a day, every day. Funny thing is, it worked.

All 20 nominees in the actor and actress categories are white. The directors and screenwriters nominated are male. David Greene talks to Wesley Morris, who writes for the online magazine Grantland.

Initially dismissed as a hoax a century ago, scientists have found evidence in Florida of humans living 14,000 years ago. If the findings hold up, they will help rewrite the history of early man.

Auburn, Wahoo and Blair are three of the safest cities in Nebraska according to the new SafeWise report.SafeWise evaluates the crime report statistics…