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(CNN) -- A NASA spacecraft has detected a rocky planet that is the smallest ever discovered outside the Sun's solar system, the agency announced Monday. The exoplanet -- so named because it orbits a star other than the Sun -- has been dubbed Kepler-10b. It measures 1.4 times the Earth's...

Thousands of New Yorkers have taken part in the tenth annual No Pants Subway Ride event. New York's annual pant-less commute has grown significantly over the past few years. Rather than trouserless commuters appearing to acknowledge the inclusive nature of the group, participants are...

Telegraph Jan 10 Richard "Dick" Winters, the Easy Company commander whose World War II exploits were made famous by the book and TV series "Band of Brothers," has died. Winters, 92, died last week following a several-year battle with Parkinson's disease, longtime family friend William...

Telegraph Jan 10 Sarah Palin stayed unusually in the background on Monday, quietened by a furore over the Arizona shooting that seems likely to have damaged her chances of running for president in 2012 Fairly or unfairly, the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords could prompt a...

BBC News jan 10 The hunt for the elusive Higgs boson particle - crucial to current theories of physics - looks set to become a one-horse race after 2011. A US "particle smasher" has been denied an extension that would have kept it running until 2014. The Tevatron accelerator will now...

We checked our ticket for the Mega Million - didn't have one number LOL :D But what if you had won say $12 million, what would you do? Help the kids? Pay off any loans? Take a holiday? Would you take an annual amount or the whole caboodle? Here are a few tips :p What It Can...

Guardian Jan 10 The American ambassador to Iceland has been summoned to explain why US officials are trying to access the Twitter account of an Icelandic MP and former WikiLeaks collaborator. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, revealed last week that the US justice...

Guardian Jan 10 BP shares slid nearly 2.5% this morning after closure of a major Alaskan pipeline that carries around 12% of America's oil output. The Trans-Alaska pipeline system, which transports oil from the Prudhoe Bay field, was closed on Saturday following the discovery of a leak...

WLKY Jan 6 FRANKFORT, Ky. — Biologists have anatomically confirmed that a hairless animal shot by a man in Nelson County nearly two weeks ago is not a chupacabra. The animal is actually a hairless raccoon, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife officials say. The mythical...

AP Jan 7 GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Authorities in Montana say a man who had three outstanding warrants for his arrest gave officers a false name during a traffic stop — but ended up in custody anyway because that man was also wanted Court records say that during a traffic stop Monday in Great...

By Petra Cahill, msnbc.com news editor Flocks of birds falling en masse from the sky in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and even Sweden is strange, but these mysterious mass deaths don’t hold a candle to the “Kentucky Meat Shower” of 1876 when it comes to avian oddities. “Flesh Descending in...

AOL Jan 7 College football fans know the Florida Gators are orange and blue, but that, of course, is just a uniform. In the wild, Florida alligators are a grayish black on top, with a lighter-colored belly. Usually. One alligator in Venice, Fla., defies that rule. On Tuesday...

Associated Press= CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Kentucky soldier who went AWOL after he said the military wasn't treating his mental health issues has been ordered to deploy to finish his tour in Afghanistan. Spc. Jeff Hanks, who turned himself in on Veterans Day, says his command has ordered...

Telegraph Jan 8 Donald Trump, the billionaire property mogul and host of America's version of 'The Apprentice', has told friends he is seriously thinking of running for president His catchphrase as host of the American version of The Apprentice is "You're fired". But the words that Donald...

Telegraph Jan 8 Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic US congresswoman, was shot in the head at close range while holding a public event outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona At least five other people, including members of her staff, were hurt when a gunman ran up to the meeting and...

AP Jan 8 LONDON – U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday — the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. WikiLeaks...

AP Jan 8 The Barack Obama of 2011 is a chief executive who confronts enormous challenges, chief among them the economy, as he starts building a re-election campaign far different from the juggernaut of optimism and trajectory that vaulted him to the White House. He's the incumbent facing...

Guardian Jan 8 Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama forcefully declared his support Friday for U.S. civilian trials of Guantanamo detainees, pledging to overturn language in a sweeping defense bill that would effectively block such trials anytime soon. "The...

Guardian Jan 7 Republicans have wasted no time in using their new majority in Congress to try to block the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to act on climate change. In their first full day in the new Congress, Republicans outlined three different bills –...

The Guardian Jan 8 The US's biggest mobile network, Verizon, is expected to announce next week that it will begin selling Apple's iPhone. The move, which requires different chips in the phone from those used in the version already sold through AT&T, America's second-biggest network, could...