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The Chicago City Council has voted 36-10 to ban plastic bags in most stores next year. The ban, which has the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, goes into effect for Chicago’s large retailers in August 2015 and one year later for shops smaller than 10,000 square feet. Family-owned stores and restaurants will not be affected. All major stores will have …

Three people were killed when an explosion hit a railway station in the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, state media reported. Reports say 79 people have been injured in the blast at Urumqi’s southern railway station on Wednesday. Xinhua news agency quoted police saying “knife-wielding mobs slashed people” at an exit of the station and set off a bomb.

Following discovery of a “zero-day bug” that can corrupt memory in the Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft continues to work on a fix. The zero-day vulnerability is a remote-code execution flaw that affects how Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11 access an object in memory that has been deleted or not properly assigned.

The Montana Supreme Court has overturned a one-month prison sentence given to a former high school teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student.

After months of rumors that Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling were going to breakup, a new report claims that the two could be engaged and planning a wedding. Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard about Ryan proposing, as evidenced by the video below.

A Houston father who was drunk while giving his 1-year-old son a bath fell asleep and caused his little boy to drown, according to Harris County Sheriff’s deputies. Enrique Alberto Machado, 36, appeared in probable cause court on Tuesday after he was charged with felony murder – injury to a child in the death of his 13-month-old son Carlos.

Camels have been implicated in a Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome known as MERS, a viral infection that has caused outbreaks in humans in that part of the world, a new study suggests. As of April 23, 345 laboratory-confirmed cases, including 107 deaths, have been linked to the coronavirus and reported to public health authorities worldwide, according to the European Centre for …

Early reports claim Selena Gomez cut ties with the youngest members of the “Keeping Up with the Kardashian” clan because they were “too toxic” for her. However, Kylie and Kendall Jenner claim otherwise. For them, Gomez was more of the “bad influence.”

Saudi princess called on people across the kingdom to rise against the ruling regime, as she greeted the martyrs and prisoners in Al Saud jails. The eldest daughter of King Abdullah, Sahar, who is along her three sisters under house arrest in Jeddah city, released a video message in which she said that victory is theirs.

The Knox County Sheriff’s Office fired a deputy and placed two other deputies on administrative leave after photos revealed a deputy used excessive force while busting a party near the University of Tennessee’s campus.

A FACEBOOK feud over a boy led to one 14-year-old girl shooting dead another in broad daylight. Endia Martin was killed after she was struck in the back by a bullet. The shooter, who has not been named due to her age, used a .38-caliber handgun to kill the girl.