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Can an old pearl regain its original luster? For Bracli, creators of the world-renowned pearl thong, the question isn’t academic. The company whose orgasmic invention brought Kim Cattrall to her knees (literally) on Se...

63 people have died since the outbreak began last week

A series of questionable business dealings by Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company) has been affecting the standing of the president, Dilma Rousseff. Before taking office as president in 2011...

Armed groups are increasingly forging links across the border of Syria and Iraq, fuelling sectarian tensions, UN says.

The probe comes after years of mounting pressure and several U.S.-led resolutions

Brandon Wade has built a controversial online dating empire based around the concept that it's perfectly OK for people — men, mostly — to pay women for dates and relationships. Wade even believes in bribing women to ...

BOMBARDOPOLIS, Haiti (AP) -- Jean-Romain Beltinor plunged a hoe into the rocky dirt on his parched hillside to prepare for planting seeds he does not have.     

WASHINGTON -- The flight simulator and hard drives that the pilots of Flight 370 had at their homes appear to be a dead end, yielding few clues that shed any light on whether they deliberately diverted the missing jet, a...

The cache of emails between Apple and Google over their allegedly illegal agreement to not compete for each others' employees is producing more gems. This time, Pando has found an email exchange between Google chairman E...

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Planes are searching a new area of the Indian Ocean for possible signs of the Malaysian airliner after a new analysis of radar data suggests the plane flew faster than thought and used up more fu...

Robert Sillerman is the 64-year-old CEO of SFX Entertainment, the newly public company that produces popular electronic dance music [EDM] festivals like Tomorrowland, Rock in Rio, and Electric Zoo. But Sillerman acted ...

Mitch Kapor and Ben Jealous worry that a lack of diversity in tech firms is stalling innovation in Silicon Valley. Capitalism, they say, remains our nation's operating system but the current version needs an upgrade

(LAHORE, Pakistan) -- A court convicted a Pakistani Christian man and sentenced him to death Thursday in a blasphemy case that sparked a riot last year in the eastern city of Lahore, according to his lawyer. Naeem Shakir...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Russian spacecraft ferrying three astronauts has docked at the International Space Station after a delay.     

Austin police say 4th person has died from injuries in South By Southwest wreck

Head down to a county fair in Texas, and you may find helmeted men racing through dirt tracks at bristling speeds on, of all vehicles, lawn mowers. The pastime is a strange motorsport that photographer Jennifer Boomer st...

Australian designer Marc Newson talked to Dezeen about his new line of glasses that will launch in Milan next month and the conversation unsurprisingly lead to Google's smart take on eyewear. The designer took the chance...

Roku has long argued that bigger competitors end up helping Roku when they release streaming-video boxes. Anthony Wood says in the case of main rival Apple, the Apple TV does results in lost money -- for Apple.     

Though shy of the 7 million sign-ups the White House had once hoped for, the number marks a significant milestone ahead of the deadline to enroll.WASHINGTON — With the Monday deadline still a few days away, the White H...

colinneagle (2544914) writes "Earlier this week, Brandyn White, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, and Scott Greenberg, a PhD candidate at MIT, led a workshop at the MIT Media Lab to showcase an open source p...

A small update to Google's app bar lets fans rearrange their Google apps.     

Microsoft's Office Mobile apps for Android and iPhone are now completely free for all home users. The company has done away with the need for an Office 365 subscription, opening up the full document viewing and editing c...