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Emerging out of stealth mode today, San Francisco-based startup BuyVia is throwing its hat into the ring as another shopping service and mobile app designed for price comparisons. The company is predominantly focus...

The chairman of Stow College in Glasgow steps down after a row over a secretly recorded conversation with the education secretary.

Tens of thousands of people, including Nasa scientists, amateur astronomers and holiday-makers from around the world, have gathered in Queensland for Australia's first full solar eclipse for a decade.

"Game of Thrones" has reportedly cast a small but pivotal Season 3 role -- Roslin Frey -- according to fansite Winter Is Coming. British actress Alexandra Dowling is rumored to have scored the role, after WIC discovered ...

A competitor to the Google Glass headset will be on display at CES 2013, Jawbone Up is back from the dead, and retailers fight showrooming with in-store apps. [Read more]

Details are still rolling in, but check out this series of tweets that started going around in the last few minutes from Chris Daniels, a reporter for KING-TV in Seattle, which you can see below. More »

AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons prepare to meet for the first time

As cheeses go, Parmigiano-Reggiano and Camembert are both very pricey. But they don't even hold a candle to pule, an extremely rare cheese made in...

• Monye one of 13 players released back to their clubs• Charlie Sharples and Ashton likely to start on the wings Ugo Monye of Harlequins has been dropped by England for Saturday's Test against Australia, with...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday warned against extending all the U.S. tax breaks to give Washington more time to broker a deficit reduction deal, saying it would create more uncertai...

Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day. That's because the only living species in Ward 10, Precinct 3B, is of the aquatic variety.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to explore options, which could include a potential sale, as the chipmaker struggles to find a role in an industry increasingly focu...

Although the U.S. economy is picking up and unemployment trending downward, we're still not out of the woods. So in the foreseeable future -- the next six months to a year, at least -- the government has to continue to s...

The catastrophic damage left by Hurricane Sandy has once again underscored the costly shortcomings of the way we—that is, federal taxpayers—insure property owners against the monster storms that are becomin...

While the big data buzz is making the headlines, it's also fast-becoming a genuine force in deriving strategic insight and actionable business intelligence from social media, as we see in each of these compelling case ex...

Texans replace Falcons atop AP Pro32 NFL power rankings; Broncos up to 5th

A fight broke out in Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport when an allegedly drunk Texas A&M fan appeared to physically attack a black man...

Mike Francesa—no stranger to involvement in embarrassing videos—chimed in on the Rick Reilly "I had that first on Twitter" video today, claiming the incident would be the defining moment of Reilly's career ...

Please read the story of Sideline Guy at TexAgs.com, who hopped a fence and spent more than three hours roaming the sidelines alongside Johnny Manziel, Kevin Sumlin, Kliff Kingsbury, Gene Stallings, and John David Crow a...

UFC fighters are always at a pretty high risk for gruesome injury - the brutal nature of the sport makes it a relief when someone doesn't sustain an injury, and/or if no blood is spilled. As much as danger is inherent in...

The last total solar eclipse until 2015 has begun, with the moon crossing in front of the sun in a celestial event that will ultimately send the moon's shadow on a three-hour trek across Earth's surface, starting in nort...

Minnesota Timberwolves center/human shark Nikola Pekovic sprained his left ankle in last night's game against the Mavericks, ending his night early and putting another hole in a roster that is already missing Ricky Rubio...