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The honorees stood, backs ramrod straight, facing the audience at the White House.

The execution of Col. Muammar Gaddafi earlier this week closes one chapter on Libya’s version of the “Arab Spring” movement.

A 28-year-old woman in India came to her doctor with an unusual complaint: a sudden and persistent increase in her sex drive. She felt constantly aroused, often with no stimulation at all

Sandwich contains 540,000 calories and takes 22 hours to cook

"Ben & Jerry's" popular "Schweddy Balls" ice cream, based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch featuring Alec Baldwin, has been pulled from some supermarket shelves over concerns of vulgarity. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.

The Earth's surface is warming, after all, says a team of researchers who sought to investigate claims that flawed data and methods had skewed existing analyses of global temperature trends. The work by the Berkeley Earth Project shows that, on average, global land surface temperatures have risen about 1 degree Celsius since the mid-1950s -- on par with the warming trend described by research groups at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the U.K

The EPA took another step toward tightening oversight of hydraulic fracturing today, announcing it would initiate a process to set national rules for treating wastewater discharged from gas drilling operations. Until now, the agency has largely left it to states to police wastewater discharges. Some have allowed drillers to pump waste through sewage treatment plants that aren't equipped to remove many of the contaminants, leading to pollution in some rivers and to problems at drinking water facilities.

In this world of Photoshop and online scams, it pays to have a hearty dose of skepticism at reports of something strange--including an albino fetal shark with one eye smack in the middle of its nose like a Cyclops. But the Cyclops shark, sliced from the belly of a pregnant mama dusky shark caught by a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of California earlier this summer, is by all reports the real thing. Shark researchers have examined the preserved creature and found that its single eye is made of functional optical tissue, they said last week.

"If we can identify when these facial changes occur, we could pinpoint when autism may begin to develop in a child"

Men do better than women at writing humorous captions for blank cartoon, but not by much

Survey of 90,000 U.S. adults found more than 8 million Americans consider taking their own life

Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn't stopped some people from trying to identify leaders.

A pioneering research institute that introduced the computer world to the mouse , hypertext and networks is now setting its sights a bit lower.

Diane Yu sees a $160 billion worldwide TV market opportunity for her company and its clients. As chief technology officer and cofounder of Freewheel --an ad tech firm with 130 full-time employees and U.S. headquarters in New York--Yu helps major television networks make sense of all the ads they're selling, and helps brands figure out what works to reach audiences wherever they're watching video content, now.

Someone Else’s Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth by Nancy L. Segal