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Marc Jacobs launches new fragrance Honey in July 2013, which is, judging by the design of the bottle, a Dot (2012) follow-up. Honey is announced as vibrant, bold and spontaneous and as sunny and enchanting floral fragran...

The 2013 Major League Baseball championship season officially kicks off tonight with an Opening Night game between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros at 8:05 p.m. ET.  Professional baseball players, including those ...

Know what this is? It's one of the first mass-produced mini-computers--the PDP 8.  The PDP-8 was made by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965. It cost $18,000. It was much less powerful and vastly harder to use than ...

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Playboy magazine's 1962 "Playmate of the Year," Christa Speck Krofft, died March 22 of natural causes at the age of 70, a family spokesman said Friday.

A college degree doesn’t guarantee anyone a big paycheck anymore. About 284,000 Americans with college degrees were working minimum wage jobs last year, according to...

It's the most annoying tradition in the tech world. Every April Fools' Day tech companies and blogs spam the Web with pranks, phony reports, and fake product launches.  And every April Fools' Day, people get confused....

The leader of Cyprus' Orthodox Christian church vowed to do all he can so that ordinary people "won't go hungry" amid the country's worst financial crisis in decades. Click to Continue »

Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental… Cl...

Churches across South Africa are to hold prayers for Nelson Mandela, who is spending a fourth day in hospital being treated for pneumonia.

Five members of the South African military are killed in a helicopter crash as it patrolled the Kruger National Park for rhino poachers.

The Princess of Wales once dressed up in disguise to enjoy a night out with Freddie Mercury, a comedienne says in her memoir.

Mitch McGary has been one of the breakout stars of the NCAA Tournament. The 20-year-old freshman has averaged 17.5 points and 11.5 rebounds during Michigan's Final Four run. Towards the end of Michigan's blowout over Flo...

America's big cities may get all the splashy buzz, but for savvy travelers, our small towns are our best-kept secrets. In a time when "authentic" is a travel buzzword, these hamlets are attracting visitors with an often ...

HEADS UP: The world's biggest economies are releasing their March manufacturing PMI reports today through Tuesday. And this is our scorecard. The party will start at 9:00 PM ET when China publishes its official manufactu...

The dollar is rising again. Click to Continue »

The newspaper industry might be shrinking in the rest of the world but it expanded Monday in Myanmar when privately run daily newspapers hit newsstands for the first time in… Click to Continue »

A small band of radical Islamist fighters battled French and Malian soldiers for hours in a firefight in Timbuktu on Sunday after infiltrating the Malian city overnight, Malian officials said.

Oil men, whether James Baker or George Bush or Dick Cheney, are not in the business of producing oil. They are in the business of producing profits. And they've succeeded. Iraq, capable of producing six to 12 million bar...

Rebel leader Michel Djotodia, who has declared himself head of the Central African Republic, names a caretaker government.

Louisville player Kevin Ware suffered a gruesome leg injury that delayed the Duke-Louisville game for nine minutes today. Ware, a sophomore role player averaging 4.6 points per game jumped to block a shot. When he came d...