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Those photos you post on Facebook could paint an accurate picture of your personality, new research on first impressions suggests.

Though you might not be able to run away from your problems, moving to another state could be good for the soul. New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are looking to former President Bill Clinton to jump-start their push to overhaul America's health care system, hoping a battle-scarred veteran of past health care fights can motivate their ranks to finish the politically tricky job this time.

WASHINGTON - After a slow start, the Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says.

When it comes to financial matters, Americans are functionally illiterate.

Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark., expected all along that he would vote against the Democrats' health care bill. But Saturday morning he changed his mind.

One day artificial penis tissue could be grown to help men, new findings in rabbits now suggest.

Recently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed Monday.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Commission has objected to Oracle Corp's acquisition of computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc , throwing the $7 billion deal into question.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slipped on Tuesday as investors paused to assess the rally that pushed the Dow industrials to a 13-month high in the previous session and drove the S&P 500 up for six straight days.

WASHINGTON - Unemployment likely will remain high for the next several years because the economic recovery won't be strong enough to spur robust hiring, Federal Reserve officials warned Tuesday.

A new Russian room that doubles as a docking port for the International Space Station is ready for a planned Tuesday launch toward the orbiting laboratory.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top forecasters are growing more confident the U.S. economy has embarked on a sustainable recovery, a survey released on Tuesday showed.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is ready to hand out more stimulus dollars for schools, but this time, strings are attached.

LONDON - European and U.S. stock markets took a breather Tuesday after a big rally in the previous session had pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest level this year.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Backers of a failed mission to launch the world's first solar-sail spacecraft unveiled plans on Monday to try again five years later with a smaller, swifter satellite to test the limits of sunlight propulsion.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Forty-three "career coaches" will be placed in high schools around Arkansas next year to help students chart their college and career goals, state officials announced Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Tuesday to above $80 a barrel after a late-season hurricane disrupted oil and gas output in the Gulf of Mexico and the dollar stayed close to a 15-month low.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Beazer Homes USA Inc on Tuesday reported its first quarterly profit in more than a year, sending its shares up 8 percent in premarket trading.

NEW YORK - Investors cooled their buying of stocks and commodities, pausing from a surge that's carried major stock indexes to their highest levels in more than a year.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home prices fell in the third quarter from year-ago levels in about 80 percent of U.S. metropolitan areas, the National Association of Realtors said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW - Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurance giant AIG has made progress on its restructuring and will likely be able to repay a taxpayer bailout and buy back much of the government's stake in the company, Moody's Investors Service said on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down's Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable, or if they go too far in the name of medical research.

FRIANT, Calif - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a far-reaching water bond intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Monday that it was acquiring of AdMob, one of the largest mobile advertising networks, for $750 million, widening its bet that cell phone advertising could become the Internet's next-big money maker.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said Tuesday it was interested in collaborating with Chinalco, months after rejecting a massive cash injection from the state-owned Chinese firm.