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Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized.

Investors were warming up to stocks early Friday ahead of a report on American consumers that could ease fears about the economy.

Manny Pacquiao is not a god, but that doesn't stop millions of Filipinos worshipping him.

Daily Jolt: John Calipari speaks out on separating from NCAA; Paul Pierce's family prepares for relocation; Roy Halladay's surgery could be 'best-case' scenario

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Iraqi security forces raided a farm belonging to a prominent Sunni tribal leader Thursday, he and two other tribal leaders said, prompting fears that sectarian tensions could escalate in Iraq's restive al-Anbar province.

Albinos in Tanzania have been attacked and killed because some people believe their body parts bring good luck. But one albino is fighting back.

Holding a black noose over her head, Singaporean forensics expert Lim Chin-Chin explained Wednesday to a packed courtroom how re-enactments showed that American engineer Shane Todd would have been able to hang himself from a similar black strap attached to his bathroom door.

Tropical Cyclone Mahasen began to lash the coast of Bangladesh with heavy rain Thursday, bringing the risk of flooding and landslides to densely populated, low-lying communities.

As a juvenile corrections officer in Southern California, Teresa Goines found it rewarding to work with troubled youth and help them turn their lives around.

Thursday night, The Office says goodbye with a one-hour retrospective (NBC, 8 p.m. ET), followed by the one-hour series finale. For Brian Baumgartner (Kevin), the table read was the most emotional day working on that last episode. "We hadn't read it. We were all reading the words and what was going to happen in that moment," he says. "I'd heard a rumor about Kevin, and based on what the rumor was, I wasn't happy. But then when I read it and saw how things worked, I was very happy."

May has been a bad month for relations between Taiwan and the Philippines, with Taiwan reacting angrily to a Philippine coast guard vessel's killing of a fisherman.

President Obama met with Turkey's prime minister to talk about ways of handling the raging conflict in Syria, but he said "it's not gonna be something that the United States does by itself."

There's one great thing about J.C. Penney's last quarter: It's over.

U.S. military leaders are "angry" and "ashamed" over sexual assaults plaguing the armed forces, President Barack Obama said Thursday after ordering top Pentagon officials to "leave no stone unturned" in the effort to stop the abuse.

A cigarette smuggling scheme that cost New York state millions of dollars in sales tax revenue may have raised funds for militant groups, authorities said.

A captivating series came to an unlikely end as the Spurs won 94-82 to finish off the Warriors in Game 6. By slowing Stephen Curry, San Antonio is moving on, writes Chris Ballard.

It wasn't pretty and the strategy was by no means scientific, but the Knicks did enough to edge the Pacers 85-75 in Game 5 and live to see another day, writes Ben Glicksman.