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Britain must build a lasting memorial to the Holocaust to avoid the “real danger” of the mass killing of the Jews being forgotten by future generations, the Prime Minister said. Actress Helena Bonham Carter, broadcaster Natasha Kaplinsky and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis are among those chosen to sit on a Commission on the Holocaust tasked with looking at what more …

Cate Blanchett is probably going to win a Best Actress Oscar Sunday night for her performance in Blue Jasmine. That’s an enviable position to be in. Or maybe not. The actress has to make an acceptance speech and people will be hanging on her every word. What the hell is she going to say? The actress has won more than …

Michael Schumacher’s manager has dismissed claims by a German magazine that doctors have stopped the “waking up process” as he continues to be slowly brought out of the medically-induced coma he has been in for nearly two months.

Moody Air Force Base could soon feel the effects of budget cuts proposed by the Department of Defense. In addition to a sweeping reduction to the size of the U.S. Army’s active duty force, the cuts proposed Monday afternoon by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel also call for the phasing out of the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, also known as the …

In a blow to the $28 billion US vitamin industry, a US task force has warned that vitamin E and beta-carotene supplements do not help prevent heart disease or cancer, instead they could do more harm than good. The US Preventive Services Task Force released new recommendations Monday on vitamin, mineral, and multivitamin supplements for the prevention of cardiovascular disease …

The US state of Missouri is preparing to execute the convicted killer of an adolescent on Wednesday, less than a month after executing a man minutes before the US Supreme Court ruled on an appeal. The planned execution comes amid controversy over the chemicals being used to give death row inmates lethal injections.

There is gold in those hills — $10 million worth. A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their Gold Country property stumbled across $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition.

A 36-year-old Independence Township man is dead after he shot himself in the head while demonstrating the gun, deputies reported. The Oakland County Medical Examiner has ruled his death a suicide.

A NOVA SCOTIA research scientist has told a scientific conference that isotopes for cesium-134 and cesium-137 have been identified west of Vancouver. John Smith, who is with the Canadian government’s Bedford Institute of Oceanography, told the American Geophysical Union meeting in Honolulu that levels are far lower than the Canadian limit for drinking water, according to a story on LiveScience.com. …

Michael decided to go for a swim. He was on vacation with his family in Guerrero, Mexico, and it was hotter than blazes. He grabbed his swimming trunks from where they’d been drying on a chair, slid them on, and jumped into the pool. Instead of cool relief, a burning pain ripped through the back of his thigh. Tearing off …

The former Olympic beach volleyball player is expecting her first child with her husband, Cleveland Indians catcher Matt Treanor, in June, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.