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Change is difficult. Sometimes business people have the best intentions, but it is hard to make anything stick. It is no surprise that January 1st is the most popular time of year to join a health club. In addition, F...

Fending off elimination for the third straight game, the San Francisco Giants thrashed the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night to earn the right to battle for their second World Series title in three years.

SAN FRANCISCO — From postseason bystander to starting the World Series opener. That's how far Barry Zito has come in two years to resurrect his...

When police phoned up Jose Marcos Araujo and told him his brother had been shot to death, he figured that meant he would never see Gilberto alive again. More »

Brown plays director and embraces his goth side for rock band signed to his new label. By Jocelyn Vena A scene from the set of U.G.L.Y.'s "Red" music video Photo: Chris Brown via Instagram

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Civil Protection agency said on Tuesday that the manslaughter conviction of seven scientists and officials over a deadly 2009 earthquake in the central city of L'Aquila would create "paralysis" i...

A company shows off its realistic monitors by making an elevator floor appear to disappear.

New York can be a tough place to make it for anyone, but for Anna Medyukh the task proved even more difficult on "My Shopping Addiction." She found herself $15,000 in debt thanks to her addiction. She was also facing evi...

An Arby's Restaurant in Dayton, Ohio, has fired its assistant general manager after she had to jump through the store's drive-through window to escape a knife-wielding robber. What's Arby's beef? Archer, the company says...

Baikonur blastoff boosts Soyuz to station The latest crew of 'nauts are on their way to join their crewmates on the International Space Station after the Soyuz TMA-06M blasted off safely this morning.…

Teletext information service Ceefax will switch off for the final time on Tuesday evening after 38 years in British homes.

LONDON (Reuters) - The director general of the BBC said on Tuesday allegations of sexual abuse carried out by one of the publicly funded broadcaster's former stars represented a very grave matter that had an impact on it...

Madeleine Stowe was very distracted during her latest appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." She found herself very concerned that she might be having a wardrobe malfunction. She started out certain that she was f...

Companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel are scrambling to reinvent their businesses now that the old model — a customer sitting at a PC — no longer applies.

As has been broadly reported this morning, Utah-headquartered geneaology software firm Ancestry.com has entered an agreement to be acquired by an investment group lead by European private equity firm Permira for a report...

It's inevitable, right? With cameras becoming ever smaller and storage becoming ever cheaper, there will come a day when all of our life's memories are digitally preserved. Memoto, a Stockholm-based startup inspired by t...

Chases laptop into dumpster, escapes after screams heard before garbage compactor went to work A man in Perth, the capital of West Australia, has survived a spell in the back of a garbage truck after trying to find his l...

Those eighteen words got a founder and I kicked off of the trading floor of the NYSE earlier this evening. Because, as we shuffed out of the Girls Who Code event held there earlier tonight, we looked at the jumble of com...

It's hard to imagine a Facebook without likes, shares, or even timestamps, but that's exactly the world created by Facebook Demetricator — a browser extension that strips all social metrics from your Facebook acco...

In a world full of great entrepreneurial ideas, how do you get your idea to stand out from the others?

Giants complete NLCS comeback, return to World Series with 9-0 Game 7 win over Cardinals

Tony Abbott, Australia's opposition leader, says Gillard government's policies reflect lack of experience raising children Tony Abbott, the Australian politician damned as a misogynist by the country's prime minister in ...