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In his debut novel, Aravind Adiga exposes India's social and economic divides through the eyes of an ambitious killer who works India's corrupt system to get to the top.

When the New Madrid fault produced a minor earthquake centered under a tiny town in Illinois last week, it wasn't exactly top news. But in 1811 and 1812, that fault line produced two of the biggest quakes in U.S. history.

Are you top notch at code-cracking? If not, listen closely to this week's guest, a former C.I.A. agent, for tips on how to stay mysterious. We quiz his intelligence about fellow spy James Bond.

The coalition did not name the person but identified him as one of the top leaders of the extremist group's Syria branch.

Pennsylvania’s new fiscal year will begin without a state budget in place, as Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration and top Republican lawmakers planned to work through the deadline to hammer out a roughly $42 billion spending plan whose details were still largely being kept secret.

Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the fiddlehead fern. It looks like the scrolled top of a violin and tastes a little like asparagus.

Google's top attorney, David Drummond, described China's censorship of the Internet as an unfair barrier to free trade and said the U.S. and European governments should defend the flow of information the same way they do products.

Louisiana State University is the winner of the national college football championship. The second-ranked Tigers beat top-ranked Ohio State University 38-24 at the Superdome. It was the second straight loss in the title game for the Buckeyes of Ohio State.

Bieber's current single, "Baby," from his chart-topping album My World 2.0, is a slickly peppy bit of pop-soul that wears its freshly broken heart on its sleeve. Along the way, it neatly accomplishes the trick of tugging at the sympathies of Bieber's most besotted fans.

The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases topped 280,000 this week as the omicron variant spreads rapidly across the country, according to Johns Hopkins University's tracker.