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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.

Hundreds of angry demonstrators in Egypt's capital fought with police near the Algerian Embassy early Friday, the Interior Ministry said.

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wife in his sleep while dreaming that she was an intruder walked free from court Friday after the case against him was withdrawn, prosecutors said.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

The governing body of world football, FIFA, have turned down the request from the Irish Football Association (FAI) to replay their deciding World Cup play-off game against France.

Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the United States, Britain and Germany after finding it contained bacteria, the company said.

Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy has been appointed the first "president of Europe," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.

Hundreds of students marched and chanted outside the UCLA building on Thursday where California university officials are expected to approve a 32 percent undergraduate tuition hike over the next two years.

Several hundred gay activists rallied Thursday afternoon in Puerto Rico to demand a robust prosecution in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager nearly a week ago.

Uga VII, the University of Georgia mascot whose deeply furrowed face was a fixture at the school for more than a year, died early Thursday, the university said. He was 4 years old.

Murder and rape charges will be filed against a North Carolina man already facing charges of kidnapping 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, police said Thursday.

This much isn't in dispute: Heather Ellis cut in line at a Wal-Mart nearly three years ago. But the accounts of what happened next vary, depending on whom you ask.