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Queen Elizabeth II declined to take a sip of a perfectly poured pint while on a tour of the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.

While Hurricane Irene left a wake of destruction through the Northeast, it also brought a bountiful harvest of delicate mushrooms.

NASA will fly the International Space Station until 2020. It will also begin developing a rocket for deep-space exploration, ventures that will include trips to asteroids and, eventually, Mars.

Paola Antonelli, a senior curator at the MOMA, explains why she's delighted to challenge preconceived ideas about art and galleries. When she announced the acquisition of 14 video games in 2012, "all hell broke loose."

Similar to a poodle, the dog sheds very little. Actually dead hair is tangled in the dense fur. This kind of fur is called hypoallergenic.

In an effort to defy the traditional Asian perception of single, independent women as failures, Chen says she will marry herself.

Six new national natural landmarks were designated by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, helping develop a "conservation ethic for the 21st century."