DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at dawn, it said. ...

Concerns that firms' rights to hold patents on genes linked to breast cancer is pushing up cost of testing for diseaseAngelina Jolie's decision to speak out about her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy was intended to highlight the terrible risks of breast cancer. But the film star's move also cast a spotlight on the far less known arena ...

Indian circuses struggle to adapt after court bans Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:19 am, Friday, May 17, 2013 A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death. "After 10 or 15 more years, there ...

Angry parents say they want a do-over after the Department of Education botched the screening process for gifted-and-talented programs this year, producing unfair results.A suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday claims the DOE changed its exam-scoring method midway through the process.The city recently revealed that two major...

The defendant in a Harlem buy-and-bust trial kept former First Daughter Caroline Kennedy and 14 other jurors waiting for four hours yesterday — while he got a haircut. Nelson Chatman, 31, was a no-show at 10 a.m., when the second day of his Manhattan Supreme Court trial for allegedly selling...