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An anti-government protester was killed and at least 29 were injured in an attack against activists occupying the Government House in Bangkok, according to reports.

Even celebrity chefs find themselves cooking in less-than-perfect kitchens.

In 30 states, adult children are legally responsible, on paper at least, to pay for food, clothing and medical care for indigent parents.

A new paper finds that ants that specialize are no more productive at their tasks than ants that don't.

As Congo rebel chief Laurent Nkunda seeks to refashion himself as a national political leader, it’s not clear if he has the professional staff beneath him to realize his ambitions.

As the stock market tumbled to its lowest level in nearly six years, traders and many others were asking the same question: Where is the bottom?

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said a rebate promised to hundreds of thousands of homeowners was “up in the air.”

As deserted malls and department stores struggle to court consumers with steep discounts, an even more ferocious price war is being waged online.

Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Penny Pritzker, a businesswoman, also emerged as cabinet contenders.

Australian police said that they would stop restricting a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after he broke his long media silence to ask them to let him “get on with” his life.

As the first high-profile Japanese baseball prospect to spurn his nation’s leagues to entertain offers from the U.S., Junichi Tazawa has strained relations between leagues on two continents.

As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style.

Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for “Shadow Country.”

A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.

Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to the MacArthur Foundation.

Some of the nation’s biggest companies want Congress to roll back rules requiring them to put more money into pension funds.

Iran has produced enough nuclear material to make a single atom bomb, though it is unclear if the country has achieved the necessary technical advances to create a bomb.

The New York Police Department wants the F.B.I. to loosen its approach to the electronic surveillance law.

A grenade attack on protesters occupying the Thai prime minister’s office killed one person and wounded 29 in the first fatal assault at the compound since activists seized it.

Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years.