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Sony has just pumped new life into the good old Walkman name with the WH Series of headphones. These 3-in-1 Walkmans can be used as wireless headphones, speakers, or MP3 players. The Walkman NWZ-WH505 comes with 16GB sto...

World Economic Forum's annual competitiveness ranking moved USA up two places in 2013.

snydeq writes "'No sooner did Microsoft release the latest round of Black Tuesday patches than screams of agony began sounding all over the Internet,' writes Woody Leonhard, reporting on verified problems with Microsoft ...

Serial killers and sexual deviants aren't the only people who take pleasure in other people's pain. Sadistic personality traits are more common than you'd think — more than half of people show these both in personality...

Retailer's kid toy-testing shows retro products likely to top holiday season wish lists.

The hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has filed for an initial public offering to raise up to $1.25bn (£790m).

The Dhaka garment factory collapse of April 24 claimed the lives of 1,129 people, but rectifying atrocious working practices amid an international uproar is proving a tall order

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, has officially left the solar system NASA has confirmed. While out all alone in the blackness of space the craft has been gathering data. One type of data is audio. NASA JP...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks were flat in early trading Thursday, a sign that traders may be pausing after the market's longest rally since July.     

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lenders initiated foreclosure action in August against the fewest U.S. homes for any month in nearly eight years, a trend that should help reduce the number of homes lost to foreclosure in the months ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan on Thursday hanged a 73-year-old man convicted of murder and robbery, the country's sixth execution of the year.     

An 18-year-old man fell four stories through a skylight on the roof of an MIT fraternity house on Wednesday night near Kenmore Square, officials said.     

One of the biggest challenges facing Brian McAndrews, the new CEO of Pandora, will be renegotiating the royalty rates the Internet radio giant pays to the music industry.

Palace: Prince William ends long stint as helicopter pilot, leaves military service     

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A member of al-Shabab says American jihadist Omar Hammami was killed in an ambush in Somalia's southern Bay region.     

US stance over possible strike on Syria analysed

LAS VEGAS -- By now, most people who care know as much about Floyd Mayweather Jr. as they'll ever need to know, thanks to the reality TV shows he stars in for every big fight. There's the fleet of exotic cars in three di...

Ray Dolby, an American inventor and audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80.

By David Lawder WASHINGTON, Sept 12

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- As the leader of a pro-gun, anti-tax state, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has prevailed against the odds -- and sent a sobering reminder to legislators nationwide that single-party legislative domin...

Biking is one of the most efficient ways to get around town, so long as you know where you're going. For cyclists who don't, Hammerhead Navigation thinks it has one of the simplest ways to get directions without lifting ...

Was Into the Wild's Chris McCandless unlucky or just terribly unprepared? The book's author, Jon Krakauer, now claims to have finally found the solution, which suggests that faulty science may have been to blame.   �...