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Forget about Singapore and New York City — the world's best new skyscraper is located in Canada. Emporis, a database of construction projects, has named the Absolute World Towers in Mississauga, Canada, the best new sk...

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Google suffered a huge setback last week when an appeals court said the company will have to fight a huge privacy case over its Street View technology. The 22 people suing Google say it violated the Wiretap Act by tapp...

Every time negotiations between the advertising industry, Internet browsers, and privacy advocates appear to have hit a nadir, new developments reveal that a "Do Not Track" standard is even further out of reach than prev...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The state of Alaska wants ConocoPhillips to reopen its mothballed Kenai Peninsula liquefied natural gas plant to provide an incentive for petroleum companies to explore and invest in Cook Inlet....

Before you attack former Wall Streeter-turned-writer Laura Hemphill for her recent article published in The New Yorker, which advises young women to opt out of getting MBAs, you should seriously hear out her argument.  ...

There's a new leaked video of Google's next smartphone, the so-called Nexus 5, being passed around this week. The people who shot the video say they found the device left in a bar by a Google employee. They decided to ta...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The son of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has resigned as head of the state oil company, an appointment that had prompted allegations of nepotism from the president's critics.     

A federal inmate recanted his testimony in the shooting death of Raymond Stanisky, slain in a Homestead credit union robbery.

People waited six hours to get their hands on this. The post-summer cronut line might be shorter, but after Shake Shack announced last week that they'd be selling 1,000 cronut-hole concretes (made with butter-caramel cus...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- European Union car sales are still sagging despite the return of modest economic growth.     

Cousin, girlfriend testifies in capital murder trial of Arizona fugitive     

Paralyzed man tried in Beijing airport explosion; case drew sympathy for marginalized people     

Five years after the calamitous collapse of Lehman Brothers, Richard Quest reports on what's changed and what hasn't.

Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widesp

Ayman al-Zawahri deems Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq suitable and endorses conflicts in Russia, India and China.

Funeral set for 5 young siblings killed in Ohio mobile home fire; cause not yet determined     

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire is expecting more tourists to spend more money in the state this fall.     

The future! Chili's has apparently figured out how to get people to spend more money on their meals: Just let them order food and pay for dinner with a digital tablet. The chain tested Ziosk tablets — like iPads for th...

It's been a little over 24 hours since Aaron Alexis allegedly opened fire at the D.C. Navy Yard and killed 12 people. And in that short time, Alexis's video game consumption, along with the toxic notion that violent vide...

Report obtained by USA TODAY says the lower premiums primarily apply to "silver" plans.

Voters Won't Like It, But We Have to Bring Back Free Trade