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After the 2008 Olympics, organizers re-wrote the rules to outlaw Speedo's lightning-fast full-body swimsuits. The company went back to the drawing board and came up with a new system — and it's helping speed top swimmers like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte to the medal stand.

Calls for Rick Santorum to leave the Republican race only increased after he failed to win any of Tuesday's primaries. But if Santorum and his team were close to taking that advice, that didn't come across in an interview NPR's Audie Cornish, an All Things Considered co-host, conducted with John Brabender, a top adviser to the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.

A clock on top of the country's Congress building in La Paz now has hands that turn counterclockwise — a move by the leftist government to embrace the country's location in the Southern Hemisphere.

A former top general of the People's Liberation Army has been indicted for his allegedly lavish lifestyle and investigators say there's evidence of wrongdoing at key military units.

It took Scott Jurek 46 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes to make the 2,189-mile hike from Springer Mountain, Ga., to the top of Maine's Mount Katahdin.

Music icon Prince is worried about the future of the music business for artists, and his top priority can be summed up in one word: freedom.

Just days after he won an election to a fifth term, Blatter said the interests of FIFA are "very dear to me and this is why I have taken this decision."

Two former top officers in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department face federal charges that they obstructed a probe into inmate abuse and corruption inside the nation's largest jail system.

Drones topped a lot of Christmas wish lists this year. The problem is that not many people know how to fly them — resulting in a lot of mishaps and amusing posts about them on social media.

Hong Kong's top leader has refused to resign as protesters had demanded, but he has offered to negotiate with student protest leaders.