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As technical curator of Barts Pathology Museum in central London, Carla Valentine certainly has brains – about 300 of them, in glass cases, preserved in alcohol or Kaiserling solution. (She particularly likes the lobotomised specimens.)

A 49-page response to the defense team's 150-page response filed Thursday in the Walter Scott murder case gives first-hand accounts from several of the key players in the April shooting.

NEW YORK — Microsoft has given longtime executive Brad Smith the title of president, as the company continues its transition to a new generation of leadership.

A mural thought to have been painted by street artist Banksy is set to go on public display after a charity won a court fight over its ownership.

Novak Djokovic claimed the most one-sided semi-final grand slam victory in the Open era as he thrashed defending champion Marin Cilic to move into the US Open final.

(Reuters) - Solera Holdings Inc, the insurance claims processing software maker that has sought to sell itself in a leveraged buyout, has so far failed to agree on an acquisition price with private equity firms, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Three Americans who stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound passenger train talked about the significance of 9/11 on Friday at a festive parade hosted by their California hometown and in an interview to air on national television.

Microsoft has given longtime executive Brad Smith the title of president, as the company continues its transition to a new generation of leadership.

We can only imagine Andreas Abodi was at the urinals in Amsterdam airport, vainly attempting to administer death by micturition on an obdurate housefly when the idea came to him.

Mexican authorities deploy drones and marines to Mexico's southwestern beaches to protect turtle eggs from poaching. Nathan Frandino reports.

Mexican authorities deploy drones and marines to Mexico's southwestern beaches to protect turtle eggs from poaching. Nathan Frandino reports.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party is expected to crown hard left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader on Saturday after a surprise surge in support for his anti-austerity platform, and despite fears that he will make the party unelectable for years.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party is expected to crown hard left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader on Saturday after a surprise surge in support for his anti-austerity platform, and despite fears that he will make the party unelectable for years.

All eight members of what the federal government refers to as the Jiang Organization have admitted that illegal immigrants worked in their State College-area Chinese restaurants.

Given some luck with the weather, and plenty is needed given the forecast, today promises to be the highlight of the European Flat season so far; the St Leger at Doncaster merely a warm-up act for the big show across the water at Leopardstown two hours later when Golden Horn, Gleneagles and six other high-class rivals do battle for the Irish Champion Stakes.

Penn State agriculture science is going to be getting a crop of cash.

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Every year, millions of Muslims converge on the Saudi holy cities of Mecca and Medina for the annual hajj pilgrimage, with the massive ceremonies representing a major security and logistical challenge for the kingdom's...

Serena Williams' attempt to become only the fourth woman to win a calendar-year Grand Slam ended in extraordinary fashion at the US Open. In one of the greatest shocks in the sport’s history, the world No 1 was beaten 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 by Roberta Vinci, the world No 43, who had failed to take a set off Williams in all four of their previous meetings.

Serena Williams’ attempt to become only the fourth woman to win a calendar-year Grand Slam ended in extraordinary fashion at the US Open. In one of the greatest shocks in the sport’s history, the world No 1 was beaten 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 by Roberta Vinci, the world No 43, who had failed to take a set off Williams in all four of their previous meetings.

In France, almost as much as abroad, Patrick Modiano seemed a man of mystery when, last year, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Through his 30-odd concise and elliptical novels, the shadows of wartime and post-war survival and subterfuge still clung to him. As the mysterious Annie Astrand says with a shiver when she meets the narrator of So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood in a chilly, deserted mansion by the Bois de Boulogne, "It's full of ghosts here." Unquiet and persistent, they throng Modiano's work. Читать дальше...

Next weekend Greece votes in its second election inside a year, with the convulsive referendum on a third debt bail-out sandwiched between. With uncannily good timing, a new graphic novel from a Greek team of artists and writers makes vivid drama out of the crisis that gave birth to democracy – the system lately tested almost to destruction in its homeland.

Ailment: Hubris

Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller’s defamation lawsuit is headed to federal court.

In the merry-go-round world of men’s doubles, a partnership that lasts for more than two years is a rarity, but Jamie Murray and John Peers are proving that sticking together can have its rewards. The Scot and the Australian, who first joined forces early in 2013, will play in their second successive Grand Slam final when they take on the Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert here at the US Open.

It started with a tolling bell and a field of stars and stripes, tiny flags that numbered 2,977, one for every life lost in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,