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A 2012 remark by a Karnataka High Court judge sparked outrage — but a national health survey found 54% of Indian women themselves said wife-beating could be
Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gray said she expects school board members to meet within the next two weeks to determine if disciplinary action is warranted…
Pittsburgh police said a determined 6-year-old girl didn't hurt anyone when she crashed her mother's car while trying to drive across town to visit her father.
A Melbourne reader's diary of an Indian comedy night: Raju Srivastava, Irfan Malik and Ali Hasan had a full house laughing at itself for four hours.
Why do brilliant programmers give away their best work for free? A 2013 Hindu op-ed by IIM Bangalore's Rahul De' found the answer in the poetry of Mirza Ghalib.
Pew's January 2013 study found 21% of Hispanics financially support both a parent and a child — vs 5% of whites — and Indian-American families have long
Archaeologists led by Georgia State's Christopher Morehart found 150+ skulls at Lake Xaltocan, Mexico — possibly the largest mass human sacrifice in ancient
A rare and candid account emerged from a scientist who had voluntarily worked in the sex industry during her graduate studies — not out of desperation but as a…
A University of Utah study found the people most convinced they can multitask are actually the worst at it — the most skilled multitaskers are the ones who
Prema Jayakumar, 24, scored 607 out of 800 to top the all-India CA exam, studying in a 300 sq ft Malad chawl while her father drove an autorickshaw.
In 2013, with growth halved and scandals mounting, the dragon-versus-elephant debate looked settled. A decade later, the race had a different leader.
David Coleman Headley received 35 years in a U.S. federal prison for scouting the 2008 Mumbai targets, spared the death penalty by his cooperation.
Lance Armstrong confessed to doping in a January 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, ending a decade of denials after USADA stripped his seven Tour titles.
Cuba acknowledged 51 new cholera cases in Havana in January 2013, amid accusations that the government was hiding the outbreak's true scale.
After France intervened in Mali in January 2013, Islamist groups tied to al-Qaeda pledged retaliatory attacks on French soil.
Two Chicago teenagers, 14 and 15, were shot dead hours apart on January 11, 2013, in Humboldt Park and Little Village, in separate attacks.
Chicago lottery winner Urooj Khan died of cyanide poisoning a day after collecting his check. Police suspected foul play; no one was ever charged.
The National Father's Day Council named Bill Clinton its 2013 Father of the Year, honoring his devotion to Chelsea amid predictable commentary.
Pamela Geller's AFDI bought 228 NYC subway ad spaces for posters pairing the burning World Trade Center with a Quranic verse on terror.
A man who stepped in to protect a woman from harassers was beaten for his trouble, then found the law turning on him when her account changed.