Cameron's Avatar should not be regarded as loser among Oscar-winning nominees as, first of all, it personifies progress in filmmaking and jury appraisal.

Jeff Bridges, the affable and well-liked star of "Crazy Heart," won the best actor Academy Award Sunday night, an honor that has eluded him four times before. His first nomination came nearly 40 years ago in 1971.

At least 51 people fell victims to an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck early Monday in eastern Turkey, officials in the region said.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's night of bar-hopping in a central Georgia college town ended with a new allegation against him after a 20-year-old college student told police he sexually assaulted her in a nightclub.

A team of American psychologists from the University of Arizona studied if happy and unhappy people differed because of the types of conversations they had.

A giant asteroid was to blame for the demise of the dinosaur, and not a volcanic eruption, scientists have finally agreed. A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction

Police have arrested a Korean couple for starving their three-month-old daughter to death while they devoted hours to playing a computer game that involved raising a virtual character of a young girl.

A car bomb killed four Iranian pilgrims near Iraq's holiest Shi'ite shrine on Saturday, a day before a parliamentary election that Sunni Islamist insurgents have vowed to wreck.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in power for almost three decades, has handed power temporarily to his prime minister while he undergoes gallbladder surgery on Saturday in Germany

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is visiting his nation's troops in Afghanistan and promising them 200 new patrol vehicles that can resist roadside bombs more effectively.

Julius Peppers signed a six-year deal worth 91.5 million dollars with the Chicago Bears on Friday.

According to authorities, John Patrick Bedell, the man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities

YouTube is opening up its auto-caption feature to everybody, a move that benefits not only deaf users, but also people who watch videos in really noisy places, like airport terminals.