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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they've cracked the code for boiling the perfect egg . It's a recipe you can test for yourself — though the timing isn't ideal with soaring egg prices in the United States from a bird flu outbreak .

TORONTO — Montreal-based filmmaker Miryam Charles is the inaugural recipient of the $25,000 Charles Officer Legacy Award.

NEW YORK (AP) — They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour or stretched out in bed while working from home.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Screaming fans lined the streets in frigid conditions Wednesday to catch a glimpse of Cynthia Erivo, the “Wicked” star who is being celebrated as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year.

ROME (AP) — With interest in a papal elections high thanks to the Oscar-nominated film “Conclave, ” Pope Francis threw a wrench Thursday in some of the speculation about a future Sistine Chapel vote by deciding to extend the term of the current dean

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top feline diplomat has come out of retirement for a new, ‘purr-fect’ job. Palmerston, former chief mouser at the Foreign Office , is now the U.K.'s chief four-legged representative in Bermuda.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s top feline diplomat has come out of retirement for a new, ‘purr-fect’ job. Palmerston, former chief mouser at the Foreign Office , is now the U.K.'s chief four-legged representative in Bermuda.

NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.

What are your top financial goals? If your goals are hard to pin down, or seem to drift, you’re not alone.

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.