Sudan claims Israeli airstrikes behind explosion in military factory in capital, Khartoum
Today in Pictures: Oct. 24, 2012
Race relations have been riled twice this week in a Louisiana community where police say a woman fabricated a violent race attack in which she "self-inflicted" burns on 60 percent of her body.
Exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London.
Rock royalty discusses his successful career, dating supermodels and his famous hair.
ABC News: Top Stories
Oct 24
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Is it better to be smart--or popular?"Intelligence has long been emphasized as a major determinant of success in life…" So begins a ponderous research paper by four scholars writing under the aegis of National Bureau of Economic Research (the entity that decides, officially, when recessions start and end).But it's not intelligence that interests them. It's how popular you were (or weren't) in high school. Does such popularity in any way relate to your earning potential as an adult? And if does, how determinative might it be?
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Read more: Bad News, Nerds: Popular Kids Higher Paid As Adults
James Van Der Beek holds a funeral for the character that made him famous on his new show; what he and other cast members of "Dawson's Creek" are doing now.
More than 2 million Muslims will gather for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
Police in Georgia are seeking the man who allegedly shot and killed a volunteer leading a prayer this morning at the megachurch led by famed Georgia televangelist Creflo Dollar.
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock is the latest Republican stir up controversy – and potential trouble for the Romney campaign – when he said during a Tuesday night debate that "even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen."
A Special Olympics representative with Down Syndrome penned an open letter to political commentator Ann Coulter, criticizing her use of the word "retard" to describe President Barack Obama during Monday's debate.
A 17-year-old Colorado student has been arrested for the abduction, murder and dismemberment of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway.