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Kieran Shea's novel follows a grizzled galactic miner who stumbles across a vein of gold on a nearly tapped-out asteroid. He just has to get the gold off-rock without attracting anyone's attention.

To fertilize its barley, a brewery in Denmark is using urine collected at the Roskilde Music Festival. The beer is called "Pisner," because of course it is.

The Indonesian court's decision has cheered Muslim conservatives and crushed the hopes of advocates of a more pluralistic and tolerant path for their nation.

The legal doctrine behind the ruling is known as abatement ab initio ("from the beginning"), the same concept that cleared former Enron CEO Ken Lay's criminal record back in 2006.

A decades-old German law reinstating German citizenship to Holocaust refugees and their descendants is drawing new interest in Boston.

Turkey views the Kurdish groups in Syria as terrorists, but the Pentagon sees them as the best chance to retake an ISIS stronghold.

Cuba is not an easy place to buy things: Food is rationed, wages are low, and the black market is a way of life. But at the new Manzana de Gomez mall, one can buy face cream for $162.40 an ounce.

The surprising finding suggests that small-brained Homo naledi may have lived at the same time as early humans in South Africa, complicating previous notions about human origins.

There is an outcry over the secretary of education's invitation to speak at the commencement of a private, Christian, historically black college in Florida.

Patricia Lockwood's scabrous memoir of growing up with a married Catholic priest for a father is a little overreliant on quirky family details, but scorching in its approach to the Catholic Church.