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This is part two of a five-part series: "How to Get a Freelance Job in 5 Days."

MIAMI (AP) -- A byzantine maze of maritime rules and regulations, fragmented oversight and a patchwork quilt of nations that do business with cruise lines make it tough for consumers to assess the health and safety recor...

Dump Microsoft Office, with its new licensing restrictions, and get LibreOffice instead.

Our ad of the day is a commercial created by Ohio's Crossroads Church that promotes "Unpretentiousil," a drug that cures "HIPSTER," defined as Hyper Involuntary Panic Stress Tension Elevation Response disorder. The medic...

Apple holds its shareholders meeting on Wednesday, February 27. After not saying much of substance at the Goldman Sachs conference regarding its dividend and share buyback plans (which would not have been a forum to anno...

A Texas mother had a one-in-70-million kind of Valentine's Day this year when she gave birth to two sets of identical twin boys, a Houston hospital announced on Monday.

Web giant celebrates the 540th birthday of the astronomer best known for his theory that the sun -- and not the Earth -- was at the center of our universe.

A fierce critic of the Syrian government tells CNN of 26 days spent inside a detention facility. "I am not going to talk about physical torture... this is something really trivial in comparison to torture to souls," Zaid...

Imagine going to a job interview and having your interviewer hold your hand and then proceed to have what looks like a heart attack. How would you react? Calm and in control? Then you might just be Heineken material. As ...

Apple has released updated versions of Java for OS X, following a prominent hacking of Apple employees' Macs, plus the remote blocking of the Java plugin due to security vulnerabilities. This is the standard quarterly up...

These are the really, really simple things you should be doing to keep casual intruders from invading your privacy.

Having made his billions, John Caudwell is part of the increasingly-visible tranche of global billionaires who are focused on giving it away, and talking about it too.

Once hot thin film solar startup Nanosolar has done a round of layoffs -- which could be substantial -- following a major down round last year. So goes the trend of the once promising next-gen solar panel maker startups.

Strange creatures that thrive on the bottom of the frigid ocean surrounding Antarctica are revealed in a comprehensive collection of snapshots and datasets now available online.

The location of the "overwhelming percentage" of Chinese cyberattacks on US corporations and government agencies is believed to have been found, and it's a People's Liberation Army base in Shanghai, reports The New York ...

Brian Balthazar, director of programming at HGTV, likes business travel. He says when you fly a lot, almost anything can happen.

A missing mural by renowned street artist Banksy has re-emerged for sale in an online auction, and neighborhood residents are understandably outraged. The mural, which depicts a young boy toiling over a sewing machine ma...

Most luxury yachts are pretty slow, with top speeds under 20 mph. For those who want to spend a relaxing vacation while also getting somewhere on time, there's Harmony. The luxury yacht has room for 12 guests in 6 stater...

Italy's Mount Etna sent lava and gas shooting toward the stars early Tuesday morning, its first big eruption in 2013. The famous Sicilian volcano burst to life overnight, sending a fountain of fire into the air.

The founder of Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said President Barack Obama's Feb. 12 executive order on cybersecurity was a "step in the right direction."

Analog Devices this afternoon posted fiscal results for its fiscal first quarter ended February 2 that were a tad below Street expectations.

GRANBURY, Texas -- A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff's deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home. Hood County sheriff's Lt. Kathy Jivid...