Albert Einstein described belief in God as " childish superstition " and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday

We re in the middle of working on the Tokio Hotel record right now, Matrix member Lauren Christy said Tuesday, the same day the collective s long-lost album featuring a then-unknown singer by the name of Katy Perry dropped on iTunes. We ve done eight songs for that record and I love the singer s voice and the fact that they play their own instruments.

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani tribal council ordered an 18 - year-old girl to be gang-raped in order to punish her family after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a higher class tribe, police said Tuesday

The United Nations said Tuesday that a Somali stoned to death by Islamist militants after she had been accused of adultery was a 13 - year-old girl who had been raped while visiting her grandmother

The number of Canadians receiving regular employment insurance benefits jumped 7.8 per cent in February from the previous month, Statistics Canada said Tuesday

At least 220 people have been killed, and dozens of wounded people have overwhelmed small, poorly equipped local hospitals, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind " M-A-S-H, " " Nashville " and " The Player " who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday.

President and founder Lucie Vermette said Tuesday that hip replacements cost between $ 5,000 and $ 6,000 and cataract operations cost $ 2,000 in Cuba.

Steamboat Springs Steamboat Ski Area officials said Tuesday that the federal health care overhaul could cost their business as much as $ 2 million a year beginning in 2014

Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Tuesday it would cut 16,750 jobs, or 4.2 % of its global work force