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See the most striking images from President Obama's second inauguration, from the preparations to the pomp of the inaugural balls.

Syrian women and children are caught in the crossfire while the battle for Damascus rages on. ITN's Bill Neely reports.

The UN Security Council has approved a resolution condemning North Korea's recent rocket launch and tightening sanctions, diplomats say.

Howard Kurtz says Jill Kelley was sucked into the Petraeus scandal, and the media didn't handle it very well.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has been accused of fudging the rules and preferring negotiated bids in awarding multimillion pesos worth of service and supply contracts from generic memory cards to a warehouse in a flood-prone area for the May midterm elections.   “Definitely, there is a pattern of faulty biddings by the Comelec to favor a few select bidders including Smartmatic,” said Norlito Domantay, chief executive officer of LDLA Marketing which lost the bidding for the supply of 82,200 compact flash (CF) cards for the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines despite its best bid of P33.5 million which was 28 percent below the approved budget price of P4...

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Centrists in Israel forged a respectable showing in the country's national elections on Tuesday, exit polling showed, with the results making it tougher for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a hard-line right wing government.

How cold is minus 20 degrees really? Cold enough to freeze an egg sunny-side up.

Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, is known to be decidedly non-religious. In an interview this weekend, he broke from his usual tune with an uncharacteristic mention of God.

In an interview with UK newspaper The Telegraph, Gates addressed the consequences of his foundation's work in Pakistan. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been working for the past few years to eradicate polio, which only remains in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Pakistan, some health workers have paid with their lives for distributing the vaccine, because Islamist groups have spread a belief that the vaccine is a Western evil.

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The body of a student who went missing from a New Year's Eve club night has been found in a canal near Manchester United's ground.

A woman waiting on the platform in the Madrid metro fainted and fell onto the tracks.

Candidates vying for seats in the Senate and House of Representatives have less than 20 days to remove their names and faces from the sides of buses and other vehicles, as well as from public places, or risk disqualification and a jail term of up to six years.   The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday reminded candidates for national posts that, under the law, election propaganda that is prohibited must be removed before the start of the campaign period on Feb. 12.   As for candidates for local government positions, they have more than a month to comply with the law as the campaign period for the local elections starts on March 30.   Under Co...

Keep on reading: Take down early campaign posters, Comelec tells bets

Cold weather didn't stop two comedians from commemorating the final season of 30 Rock by camping out where the show is taped to high-five cast members.

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Etsy has acquired the four-person team behind photo collage-making app Mixel to build up its mobile team, Etsy confirmed on Tuesday.

By all appearances, the online crafts marketplace acquired Mixel not for its product, which allows users to collaboratively create, edit and share photo collages, but for its talent. Mixel's parent company, Lascaux Co., was co-founded in early 2011 by Khoi Vinh, the well-known former design director of the NYTimes.com (who will now assume the role of product design director for mobile at Etsy), and Scott Ostler, co-founder of real-time image sharing site dump.fm. The company's two employees, software developer Akiva Leffert and designer Roy Stanfield, will a…
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Officials believe three people, at least two of them students, were wounded in crossfire as two people shot at each other at a Texas community college Tuesday, a school spokesman said.

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Beyonce isn't the first singer to mouth the words. Here are eight other famous lip syncing fails. How does she match up? You be the judge.

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President Aquino on Tuesday said the United States has to explain how and why its ship had run aground in a protected area like the Tubbataha Reefs but the “first priority” was to remove the USS Guardian and contain the damage it made in the world heritage site.   “After they do that and we’re finished with the immediate issue, then they have to answer so many things. What are you doing in an environmentally protected area?” Mr. Aquino told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in an interview following the turnover ceremonies of the new Commanding General of the Philippine Army at Fort Bonifacio.   Mr. Aquino noted that US Navy ships had “some of the most s...

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OPINION: Despite Bob Schieffer's comment that "there were no real memorable lines" in President Obama's inauguration speech, LZ Granderson says the LGBT community has found two of the lines to be historic.

A kink within the controversial SnapChat app may let users secretly capture screen shots of private pictures without notifying the sender.

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An unlicensed counselor in Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community was sentenced Tuesday to spend the rest of his life in prison after repeatedly sexually abusing a young girl in his care.