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A mass of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's personal items will be auctioned in New York next month in what is billed as the biggest collection of the French Impressionist artist's memorabilia.
The American soldier sentenced to 35 years in jail for passing secret documents to WikiLeaks asked to be considered a woman on Thursday and requested sex change therapy.
US scientists said Thursday they have built the world's most precise clock, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion, or 10 times better than any other.
Asian markets firmed on Friday as a slew of upbeat manufacturing data from around the globe overshadowed concerns about the US Federal Reserve's plans for its stimulus programme.
US actor Ben Affleck will replace Christian Bale in the next Batman film.
US armed intervention in Syria would not resolve the civil war and rebel forces cannot be relied on to back American interests, the top military chief said in a letter to Congress.
A new treatment could offer relief to those with the inflammatory bowel conditions Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
The final batch of taped conversations secretly recorded by US president Richard Nixon and then used to help bring him down during the Watergate scandal were released on Wednesday.
The US government spied on electronic communications between Americans with no links to terror suspects until a judge ruled it illegal in 2011.
New York's Metropolitan Opera said Wednesday it has expanded its program of live broadcasts for the 2013-2014 season.
The United States again faces the unpalatable policy dilemma that has shaped decades of relations with Egypt.
Bed nets treated with insecticide are a simple and economical way to eradicate filariasis, a mosquito-born tropical disease that threatens 1.4 billion people worldwide.
President Barack Obama and top aides Tuesday scrutinized US strategy on Egypt, while the White House denied it had quietly frozen millions of dollars in aid after Cairo's military crackdown.
News that Samsung will unveil a "smartwatch" next month has sent rumour mills into overdrive within the tech community as it second guesses what the much-hyped gadget will offer.
The US Air Force is unable to keep up with a growing demand for pilots capable of operating drones, partly due to a shortage of volunteers.
Republican Darrell Issa of California was 2012's richest member of Congress, worth at least $355 million.
After decades of hollowing out, US manufacturing is overtaking competitors and stands to grab up to $115 billion more in export business from rivals by 2020.
Human activity is almost certainly the cause of climate change and global sea levels could rise by several feet by the end of the century.
Al-Jazeera America went live Tuesday, accompanied by a campaign of traditional and social media for its cable channel launch, as it pledged to outdo its rivals with serious, in-depth journalism.
Collateralized debt obligations, the complex financial instruments that cratered disastrously in the financial crisis, are back.
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