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Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion
Facebook Inc. (FB), the world\'s largest social network, agreed to acquire mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. for as much as $19 billion in ...Pakistani couple stoned to death for adultery; six arrested
Authorities in Pakistan say six people have been arrested in connection with the stoning death of a couple accused of adultery.Pioneering TV comedian Sid Caesar dies at age 91
Pioneering U.S. television comedian Sid Caesar, who set the standard for TV comedy in the early 1950s, has died at 91.Former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple dies at 85
Shirley Temple Black, the child star who lifted the spirits of American movie audiences during the Great Depression of the 1930s, has ...Woman will sue to prove Mandela is her father
Two women who say they were fathered by South Africa\'s former President Nelson Mandela have sought to be acknowledged by his estate, ...Iran hangs poet and activists
An Arab-Iranian poet and human rights activist, Hashem Shaabani, has been executed for being an "enemy ...15 pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia hotel fire
A fire at a hotel in the Saudi holy city of Medina on Saturday killed 15 pilgrims and injured 130 others, state-run ...Sochi 2014: Winter Olympics opens with glittering ceremony
The official 16-day competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics begins Saturday when gold medals in five sports will be contested.UN report demands Vatican act against child sex abuse
A United Nations human rights committee has made an unprecedented demand that the Vatican "immediately remove" all clergy accused of child abuse ...US actor Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in New York
Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead Sunday in his New York apartment of a suspected drug overdose.