The unraveling corruption cases in New Zealand sports, business and politics have sullied the country’s record as “world’s least corrupt nation for eight years straight by the watchdog group Transparency International.”
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Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.
Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.
An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to a California chicken company hasn’t run its course after more than a year, with 50 new illnesses in the past two months and 574 people sickened since March 2013.
Google will build a car without a steering wheel. It doesn’t need one because it drives itself.
About 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten” after being kept off the official waiting list at the troubled Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday. A report cited an average 115-day wait for a first appointment for those on the waiting list.
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the 2012 deaths of two men he allegedly gunned down after an encounter inside a Boston nightclub.
The man handling the sale of rare, 19th century gold coins discovered by a California couple out walking their dog estimates they had fetched about $2 million as of noon on Wednesday.
Malcolm Glazer, the self-made billionaire who owned English Premier League club Manchester United and the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has died. He was 85. The reclusive Palm Beach businessman had been in failing health since April 2006 after two strokes.
The 12th annual survey of cybercrime trends found that online attackers determined to break into computers, steal information and interfere with business are more technologically advanced than those trying to stop them.
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt said Wednesday he was outraged that Veterans Affairs has been slow to respond to concerns about mental health treatment for veterans at its St. Louis hospital, but the Republican is not among those calling for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.
When astronaut Scott Kelly embarks on a one-year space station stint next spring, his twin brother will be offering more than moral support. Retired astronaut Mark Kelly will be undergoing medical testing to help scientists better understand weightlessness — as a genetic copy.
President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that the U.S. remains the world’s most indispensable nation, even after a “long season of war,” but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures.
Author and poet Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.
A treasure trove of rare gold coins that were discovered by a California couple out walking their dog last year went on sale Tuesday. The nearly 1,430 coins date from 1847 to 1894 and have been valued at more than $11 million, and a single coin sold for $15,000.