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The Nationalist MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Brian Adam, has died at the age of 64 after a battle with cancer.

Outperforming the market is hard. The most highly paid people in the world -- hedge fund managers -- failed miserably at that task in 2012. But three academics handily trounced the market with their Google Trends Strateg...

"Walking Dead" fans, here's your dream wedding cake! Reddit user mikemchenry posted a photo Thursday of the blood-and-guts cake served at a wedding he attended last weekend. He wrote that the groom is a fan of AMC's zomb...

A group of 27 organisations - including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation - have written to the web standards body W3C urging it to reject proposals that would make it easier to support ...

Prosecutors in Jodi Arias' murder trial finished the rebuttal portion of their case and the judge said closing arguments will begin next week. Arias entered the courtroom Thursday morning, wearing a black shirt with gree...

Thursday's print edition includes a story on South County senior Felecia Majors, detailing her rise into the area's premier multi-event athlete ahead of this week's Penn Relays. Majors, who is entered in the long jump an...

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) -- With deep cracks visible in the walls, police had ordered a Bangladesh garment building evacuated the day before its deadly collapse,...

The 42nd President of the United States and the man with the most endearing lip bite in the world, William Jefferson Clinton, has officially jumped into the 21st century by joining Twitter. The Prez has already racked up...

The CIA added one of the Boston bomb suspects to a terrorism database 18 months ago, officials say, days after the FBI said it had also investigated him.

Saturday Night Live is coming to Yahoo. CEO Marissa Mayer announced today that the series's entire 38-year back catalog will be available through Yahoo thanks to a new exclusive deal with Broadway Video. The content incl...

Expands cloud monitoring tech with "Virgo" agent project Rackspace has broadened the capabilities of its cloud monitoring technology by letting admins put an agent on their servers to get a clearer idea of how apps are u...

NASA scientists and the space-loving public are eagerly awaiting the moment when the unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first vessel in human history to exit the solar system, which is expected some time in the ne...

WASHINGTON -- Gary Wanderlingh, who is American, and Samuel Conlon, who is British, were introduced online through friends five years ago. They felt a connection immediately, but they delayed meeting, they said, because ...

Two new trials have ended up reporting conflicting results regarding the expansion of the indication for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) for patients without a wide QRS interval. The positive results of the small...

Pop quiz: What is the Samsung Series 5 Chronos? How about the ATIV Smart PC? Can the non-techies in the house tell me specifically which product category Samsung's Series 9 falls under? Sammy fans are likely familiar wit...

CISPA, the controversial cybersecurity legislation passed by the House of Representatives last week, may be effectively dead for now. US News has reported that the Senate Commerce Committee, headed by Senator Jay Rockefe...

Yahoo said Thursday that Chairman Fred Amoroso has resigned his role leading the board and will not stand for re-election as a director at its June 25 shareholder meeting.

Looking for a darkening moon? Thursday's partial lunar eclipse will be particularly subtle, and it won't be visible at all from North America -- but you can still catch the show, such as it is, on the Web.Lunar eclipses ...

Samsung comes out with a shiny new phone with a huge screen and so many features we can't even count them all. This same week, Apple CEO Tim Cook tells the world that the company won't launch "amazing new hardware, softw...

By Denise ChowSpace.comThe sun has unleashed a trio of solar eruptions toward the planet Mercury in recent days, solar storms that may pass one NASA spacecraft while dealing a glancing blow to another, NASA officials say...

CIA Put Dead Bomber in Terrorist Database in 2011

The Thick Red Line: White House Cautious on Syria's Chemical Weapons Use