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At least 11 people died after Taliban insurgents on Thursday attacked a provincial governor’s office, but were beaten back by security forces, Afghan officials said.

The presiding judge in the U.N. trial of Gen. Ratko Mladic has delayed indefinitely the presentation of evidence that had been scheduled to start later this month due to "errors" by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defense lawyers.

Greece’s caretaker prime minister on Thursday appointed a mix of veteran politicians and eminent economists to act as a temporary cabinet until the June 17 general election.

Laugh all you want, but the stupendously silly $200 million Battleship blockbuster opening Friday isn't close to sinking toy- and game-based films anytime soon. Here are 10 classic childhood diversions that got burned into our brains thanks to cheesy television commercials. We think Hollywood should eye these for their own movies.

The next generation of videogames is going to rock your world. And it's all thanks to a piece of software called Unreal 4.

HP and Intel call it Itanium. But others call it the Itanic. This difference of opinion goes a long way toward describing the ongoing court battle between HP and another giant of the tech world: Oracle.

Thor Heyerdahl sets sail with his crew from Safi, Morocco, aboard Ra II.

Arnhel de Serra?s photos are like the British equivalent of a good New Yorker cartoon: quirky and insightful. His series on the U.K.?s agricultural shows ? which are similar to county fairs here in the U.S. ? gives viewers a curious peak into the eccentric events that have been part of the country?s heritage since the 1800s.

Despite the overwhelming level of interest in its I.P.O., Facebook is facing fresh concerns over its ability to attract enough advertising revenue. Will the social network reach its advertising potential?

Until now, Patrick Henri Devillers, a French architect who has been part of the Bo Xilai drama in China, had not been heard from.

The average episode of Top Gear runs around $1 million to produce. But those high-style, high-flying ? and incredibly expensive ? aerial shots just got slightly more affordable with the introduction of a new quadrocopter specifically developed for shooting automotive action.

Honda has unveiled a new personal mobility concept vehicle that lets riders move around indoors at about the same speed as their legs could carry them. The UNI-CUB is the evolution of the U3-X, unveiled back in 2009, and uses Honda's proprietary balance control system to keep from tipping over. It also uses the company's Omni ...

The Central American country is a growing focus of American efforts aimed at drug cartels that have sought to use its ungoverned spaces.

A menagerie of medical machines join forces in The Immortal, a new project by artist Revital Cohen. The tangled mass of life-support devices are hacked to support each other, detached from their usual human hosts.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she would discuss stimulus programs to get the Greek economy growing again and that she was committed to keeping Greece in the euro zone.

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coondoggie writes "NASA continues to get a better handle on the asteroids buzzing around in space saying today that there are roughly 4,700 potentially hazardous asteroids, or as NASA calls them PHAs. NASA says these PHAs are a subset of a larger group of near-Earth asteroids but have the closest orbits to Earth's – passing within five million miles (or about eight million kilometers) and are big enough to survive passing through Earth's atmosphere and cause damage on a regional, or greater, scale."

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A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire, Joe Ricketts, seeking to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era.