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The 74-page report by the United Nationss concludes that suspected Taliban fighters have been subjected to beatings, electric shocks and other forms of torture in some Afghan-run detention centers.

The southwest African country of Namibia is trying a controversial approach to preserving its wildlife. Rural people control the animals and profit from them. But they have also found they must shoot some of the animals to cull the herds.

Lexington, Kentucky, has been crowned America's least active city by Men's Health magazine. Over the weekend, the city mocked that top ranking. Mayor Jim Gray led a Sedentary Parade through the city, riding on a moving couch with coffee table.

The Senate is expected to turn down the president's jobs package. In Liberia, new Nobel laureate President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf seeks reelection.

A look at how Latinos and the Spanish language have been portrayed in, and shaped by, American pop culture over the years, from I Love Lucy to Modern Family.

The 23-year-old Jones (real name Benjamin John Francis Fodor) was arrested by Seattle police early Sunday, after he allegedly doused some people with pepper spray. He says he was breaking up a fight.

Like all able-bodied South Korean men, he's required to serve in the nation's military. "I'm sorry to make such a fuss while leaving," Rain told a large crowd. "I'll be back from my duties soon."

Maikel Nabil Sanad was not imprisoned, beaten or tortured until he criticized the post-Mubarak military leaders, his father says.

Jeffrey Eugenides' third novel, The Marriage Plot, charts the lives of three young adults as they finish college, fall in love and navigate the real world after graduating from Brown University in 1982. Eugenides, also a Brown alum, based some of the novel on his own experiences directly after college.

The X-47B drone will be the first to land on an aircraft carrier. It is also jet-powered, unlike its propeller-driven counterparts.