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National curriculum tests for 14-year-olds in England's school should be reintroduced, says the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw.

The 30-year-old Volquez went 9-12 with a 5.71 ERA in 2013 while splitting time with the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Sam Smith has landed a Brit Award after being named the winner of the Critics' Choice prize for next year's ceremony.

The iPhone has become one of the largest gaming platforms on the market since the App Store opened in 2008.

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Car crash near St. Paul Christian School in Dededo: An adult female and boy were transported to Guam Memorial Hospital after an auto accident near St. Paul Christian School in Dededo.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., walk together as they head a news conference to announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a government spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

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The Democrats, whose veterans are at the forefront of the anti-government protests that have shaken Bangkok for the past six weeks, say the enemy is a brutal system that has allowed their political nemesis to remain politically powerful, even from far away in Dubai, in exile.

A world-renowned Indonesian wine dealer on trial in New York for selling counterfeit wine was millions of dollars in debt in the years before his arrest, prosecutors told his fraud trial on Tuesday.

The following information was provided by the Medfield Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

For the first time in 44 years, a clear majority of California voters favors legalizing marijuana, a new Field Poll found.

Domestic cooking gas cylinder price was hiked today by Rs 3.46 per after the government raised the commission paid to dealers by over 9 per cent.

White children in the United States have higher liver transplant survival rates than blacks and other minority children, a new study finds.

Last week wasn't very much fun, was it? There we were -- gloomy and despondent -- huddled around a single meager mainstream release and a documentary no one cared about.

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Today I'm excited to continue my "Best of 2013" feature with a list of my favorite comics and graphic novels of the year.

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will return to the New York Philharmonic for the first time since her tenure as the 2010-11 season's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.

Police said a Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. pickup and a white van from the Devereux Foundation collided around 10:30 a.m. near 2008 Route 9G.

Authorities say the 44-year-old son suspected of violently killing his elderly parents in Bayfield County, Wis., is in an induced coma at a Minnesota hospital.