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When the tsunami smashed the seafood processing factory where Shoichi Sato was working, he lost his job but eventually found a new life.

One of the main leaders of the civilian armed movement that formed to drive a drug cartel out of Mexico's Michoacan state was charged Thursday with the murder of two members of a rival vigilante group.

An esteemed, Academy Award-winning actor finally has an action figure of himself that he can place on his mantle that sizes up to his statuette named "Oscar."

The Harper government is preparing in a big way to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War at the same time as it faces the human toll of its own vastly smaller military adventure.

A group of Midwest vegetable farmers has failed to convince Monsanto to reformulate an herbicide that could become widely used.

The suits allege that McDonald's has forced employees to work off the clock, not paid them overtime and struck hours off their time cards.

President Obama and other lawmakers will celebrate St. Patrick's Day early this year, welcoming Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to Washington on Friday.

Initially, it was the spelling of The Drunken Munkey that pulled me in the door.

Lt. Garlin Murl Conner left the U.S. Army as the second-most decorated soldier during World War II, earning four Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars, seven Purple Hearts and the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during 28 straight months in combat.

Even those of us who are not shaky-handed drunks often find ourselves fumbling in the morning.

The argument that a vegetarian diet is more planet-friendly than a carnivorous one is straightforward: If we feed plants to animals, and then eat the animals, we use more resources and produce more greenhouse gases than if we simply eat the plants.

The nutrition and supplement said Wednesday that it received the civil investigative demand from the FTC on Wednesday.

It took some tugging for pilot Bob DeLong of San Clemente to pull one hairy passenger aboard a flight from Van Nuys to Bellingham, Wash.

Soldiers with the U.S. army's 7th Corps huddle in a bunker in Eastern Saudi Arabia with gas masks and chemical suits just after U.S. planes started bombing Iraq in this Jan. 18, 1991, file photo.

At Lagos' largest dump, dozens of men gather to sort iron, plastic and nylon atop a 20-foot wall of garbage where hundreds of white herons compete to eat the spoils.

A " One of the main leaders of the civilian "self-defense" groups that rose up to challenge a drug cartel in Mexico's Michoacan state was detained late Tuesday as a suspect in the weekend killings of two vigilantes, authorities announced.

Things got a little awkward during Chelsea Clinton's speech at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, when she proudly told a full house of tech and digital enthusiasts: "I'm obsessed with diarrhea."

Deli owner Debbie Halls-Evans is savouring success after triumphing in Channel 4's The Taste, following a nail-biting finale of the cookery show.

Crowds line the street during the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston, Sunday, March 18, 2012.

Would Parmesan by any other name be as tasty atop your pasta? A ripening trade battle might put that to the test.