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A woman accused of cutting a Wal-Mart line and striking police officers reached a plea deal after taking the stand and denying all charges in the racially charged case.

Accompanied by two smitten men, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and plunged it into her roommate's neck, a prosecutor charged in closing arguments.

Authorities arrested dozens of angry students at the University of California, Davis, campus late Thursday after they refused to vacate the school's administration building in protest of a 32-percent tuition hike.

Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling fat obtained from dead humans.

There will be no more car giveaways, no more tearful interviews and Tom Cruise will have to find someone else's couch to jump on.

A suspect in the killing of five people in Arkansas last week has been killed in a shootout with officers, authorities said.

The second installment in the "Twilight" saga, starring Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen, Kristen Stewart as his star-crossed love and Taylor Lautner as the wolfboy who loves her, has already ripped through a box office record.

A band of right-wing activists ransacked an Indian television station in the country's financial hub of Mumbai in an assault their party said was an act of retaliation against the channel's "bias" against their veteran leader.

Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a shout-out to other hackers.

Astronauts aboard the international space station and space shuttle Atlantis woke up to a worrying sound -- alarms indicating a fire and dangerous loss of pressure, NASA said Friday.

Traditional Senate decorum yielded to brass-knuckle politicking Friday in the health care debate as top Democrats sought to close party ranks before a key procedural vote this weekend.

Thierry Henry believes a replay would be the "fairest solution" after his handball set up France's clinching goal in their World Cup playoff with the Republic of Ireland.

Closing arguments began today in the Italian trial of American Amanda Knox, who is accused of sexual assault and murder in the death of a British student.

The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.

Young women should have their first Pap test no sooner than age 21, regardless of when they become sexually active, say new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Earlier screening for cervical cancer may lead to unnecessary and possibly harmful treatments for an increasingly rare cancer, according to ACOG, the leading U.S. professional organization for obstetricians and gynecologists.

Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll.

It can take years to snag a reservation at El Bulli, a restaurant in Spain that's been called the best in the world, so when Gary Leff got the word that he'd finally gotten in, he whisked his wife across the Atlantic -- just for dinner.

Graphic details of bestiality, child rape and sodomy emerged in documents filed Thursday in the case of a Missouri family accused of crimes against their relatives.

A British man who strangled his wife in his sleep while dreaming that she was an intruder walked free from court Friday after the case against him was withdrawn, prosecutors said.

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.