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Nine cents have been enough to make tens of thousands of Brazilians cry foul for a week.

A man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who had broken up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to his vigil.

Venezuelan lawmakers are weighing whether to ban the use of baby bottles as part of a push to promote breast-feeding, state media reported.

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The pace of home building gained steam in May, another sign of the housing market's recovery.

This is interleague play at its rare best, says Tom Verducci. The Dodgers are in the Bronx to meet the Yankees for the first time in 32 years. Both historic franchises could use a jolt.

A dolphin who died in the southern Chinese city of Sanya Monday has sparked nationwide anger after pictures surfaced of tourists near the shore mistreating and posing with the dying animal were spread on Weibo, China's most popular social network site.

Although non-traditional therapies can be valuable, sometimes a line is crossed. So how can you tell if your alternative healer is a quack?

President Obama will speak in Berlin one week before the 50th anniversary of the famous speech by President Kennedy.

AEG Live's negotiations with a doctor to treat Michael Jackson were "highly inappropriate," a music industry veteran testified Monday.

The Oxford English Dictionary has finally gotten around to acknowledging that tweeting isn't just for the birds.

Investors were taking a cautious approach Tuesday as they hope the Federal Reserve will calm fears about an early end to cheap money.

A Bollywood star is facing a storm of controversy over the sex of his unborn child.

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After clashes between police and protesters, Indonesia's parliament Monday night voted to revise the national budget and allow an increase of up to 44% in the prices of subsidized gas and diesel fuel.

Montreal's interim mayor, Michael Applebaum, was arrested and charged early Monday with 14 criminal counts including fraud, breach of trust and conspiracy.

In this government stronghold city, Syrians moved with an air of confidence Friday, defiantly dismissive of how the United States will raise the stakes of the country's bloody two-year civil war by stepping up support to the rebels.