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You've won an Oscar! Now what? For these ten actors and actresses...nothing. A look at the worst post-Oscar careers in movie history.

The global middle class is more unstable and less liberal than we thought.

TIME's Belinda Luscombe rates the best and worst of the Oscar gowns

Europe needs a leader, but the likely candidate doesn't want the job.

Why britain will lose to Argentina, or should, this time.

Russia's new diplomatic strategy is cheap and counterproductive. But playing the pest is the only way for Moscow to claim relevance.

As Iraqis went to the polls last week, there was one noticeable absence on the streets: U.S. troops. For the first time since 2003, Iraqi forces handled security for all voting sites—an important step in a process that, if it goes as planned, will reduc

Turkey finally outgrows Atatürk.

After pleading guilty last March to 11 counts of fraud related to his $65 billion, long-running Ponzi scheme, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. Under federal court rules, he must...

Sunday's poll appears likely to yield an indecisive result, while accusations of ballot fraud by opposition parties could challenge the legitimacy of the new government that eventually emerges

Can an influential Pakistani cleric end terrorism by declaring a fatwa against it?

TIME looks back at some of TV's greatest real life Newlyweds. Because, as the ol' saying goes, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes an 8pm time slot on network TV.

Their roles have changed with the times. Now they're finding fellowship--online

A police raid in Philadelphia turns to tragedy

Anger is rising in Greece a week after leaders announced a new austerity package to rein in the deficit, with protesters taking to the streets and workers walking off the job