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Formula One pit stops today are the ultimate expression of controlled chaos: A swarm of more than 20 engineers converge simultaneously upon the parked race car in a meticulously choreography sequence.   In-race refuelin...

Gold prices built on last week's gains amid investor skittishness toward equities in the face of mounting tensions in Ukraine.

Facebook may be preparing to enter China, says an analyst who cited a report on Facebook's efforts to recruit Chinese students and speculation that Beijing may eventually become receptive to the social network.

By producing and investing in a series of successful start-ups like Expedia, Zillow and Glassdoor, Richard Barton has managed to accomplish something few others have done.

“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” took home three of the top prizes at the MTV Movie Awards, held Sunday at L.A. Live’s Nokia Theatre and hosted by Conan O’Brien. Here is the complete list of winners: Movie of th...

Making history is becoming a habit for Stephen Curry. In 2012-13, he set the record for threes made in a single season. He's taken down two more during 2013-14, hitting the most threes in a two-season span and becoming t...

Global PC shipments fared slightly better than expected in the first quarter of 2014. Shipments totaled about 75 million for the quarter, a decline of about 3.5% year-over-year.  While still a decline, this is the small...

A Chinese consortium buys Glencore Xstrata's copper mine in Peru in a $6bn (£3.6bn) all-cash deal, marking one of China's largest mining acquisition.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Minnesota workers have big raises coming their way, courtesy of a new minimum wage law that Gov. Mark Dayton signed Monday, which will take the state from one of the nation's ...

This intense photo shows a U.S. Marine killing a chicken with his teeth in the joint-military exercise Cobra Gold.  Cobra Gold, an annual military exercise that started in 1982 with joint operations between Thailand and...

Asian stock markets fell Monday following two days of U.S. declines and forecasts of lower American corporate profits.

SpaceX's Elon Musk is vying to break the controversial grip of Boeing and Lockheed Martin on launches of the U.S. government's most sophisticated national security satellites.A high-stakes battle is underway in Washingto...

Wahlberg received the 2014 Generation Award and let us in on what that really f--king means. By Alicia Lutes

Wall Street analysts have advanced a variety of theories to explain what's behind the recent decline in the stock market. David Bianco, chief U.S. equity strategist at Deutsche Bank, poses the question in his latest rese...

Native American group hoping to get help with land claim says US violated their human rights

Boko Haram has killed thousands since launching an uprising in the northeast four and a half years ago.

Oscar Pistorius is to start his second week of evidence in his murder trial, after three days of fierce cross-examination by the prosecution.

Ukrainian acting president Oleksander Turchinov has given pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Slaviansk at deadline of 0600 GMT to lay down their weapons, with a threat of a dawn attack if the deadline is not ...

Report that revealed massive US government surveillance among top finalists for Pulitzer Prize

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council met late Sunday in emergency session as violence escalated in eastern Ukraine, hours before a Monday morning deadline for pro-Russia protesters to lay down their arms or f...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Police commandos stormed a southern Philippine hideout of suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists blamed for kidnappings and extortion, triggering a firefight that led to the killing of two militants ...

VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) -- Firefighters struggled for a second night early Monday to contain blazes that have killed 12 people, injured 500, destroyed 2,000 homes and forced 10,000 people to flee the densely populated hil...