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As the British government looks for ways to cut costs and get its budget back in balance, it has capped the money that goes to Queen Elizabeth II until at least 2015. She'll still get about $50 million a year to run her palaces and other expenses.

About 45 tons of contaminated radioactive water have leaked and about 300 liters of it has made it into the Pacific Ocean.

Two local crime stories portray the disillusion and hope of the holiday season.

He made a string of classic recordings in the '60s and enjoyed a successful encore career.

Kepler-22b is bigger than Earth, but its temperature could be a comfy 70 degrees. It's the first exoplanet confirmed to be orbiting in the middle of the habitable zone of a sun-like star.

Using 54,000 feet of toilet paper and the 825-foot long "Infinite Corridor" at MIT as a workspace, students from a small boarding school say they broke an unofficial record for folding paper on Sunday. They created the equivalent of 13 folds.

Pakistan remains upset with the United States following the deaths of two dozen Pakistani soldiers last month. The U.S. says it is complying with a Pakistani demand and is leaving an air base in southwest Pakistan.

"It's all about telling stories," says the author of a new psychological study, "so creative people are likely to be able to tell themselves better stories, which would allow them to cheat more on the one hand, but not feel worse about it on the other."

Unmanned aircraft — or drones — are playing a big role in U.S. military operations abroad but they're starting to show up above the U.S. as well. Drones are already being used to patrol the border with Mexico, and now they may soon be coming to your local police department.

Lynn Neary talks to Fred Honerkamp, a graduate from the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Michigan and current mall Santa, about the spirit — and strategy — of playing Old Saint Nick in tough economic times.