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The three military fathers sat at the commander’s conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help. They told the commander that their daughters were among a half-dozen girls...

LONDON - Stephen Hawking was a prolific author with a knack for making books on challenging scientific topics engaging to a wide spectrum of readers. The physicist is best known for his bestselling 19...

LONDON - Physicist and author Stephen Hawking possessed an uncanny ability to come up with memorable phrases and sayings that summed up his world view. Here is a selection of his famous observations: ...

LONDON - Key events in the life of celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking, who died Wednesday at 76. Jan. 8, 1942 - Born in Oxford, England, the eldest of four children of Frank Hawking, a biologist, an...

WASHINGTON - Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers. Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on Wednesday ...

PARIS - In his final years, the only thing connecting the brilliant physicist to the outside world was a couple of inches of frayed nerve in his cheek. As slowly as a word per minute, Stephen Hawking ...

Reaction to the death of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking: “His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it’s not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeat...

NEW YORK - One Cabinet member was grilled by Congress about alleged misuse of taxpayer funds for private flights. Another faced an extraordinary revolt within his own department amid a swirling ethics...

BEIRUT - For the first time since its meteoric rise in 2012 amid the chaos of war, al-Qaida’s branch in Syria is in retreat, battling rival militant groups in the north and fighting for survival...

HELSINKI - If cold weather and a lack of sunlight in winter are enough to get you down, chances are you’re not Finnish. The World Happiness Report published Wednesday put Finland at the top amon...