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While your friends may not be able to sign this cast, it sure looks a huge improvement on the old one. This new 3D-printed alternative kind of looks like a black plastic spider web wrapped around your arm and it uses an ...

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As divers raced to reach hundreds of people believed to be inside, the death toll from the ferry boat sinking in South Korea rose to 28 Friday.

Claims by US, NATO and Ukrainian officials of "Russian involvement" in Ukraine are both completely hypocritical -- given the record of US-EU subversion in Kiev -- and deeply cynical. With the assistance of the compliant ...

CNN's Barbara Starr reports on a supposed meeting of scores of al Qaeda leaders, which was filmed and posted on YouTube.

Why the U.S. government is bickering with extremists on social media.

We're always looking for quick ways to be happier. So here's one: Spend some money. According to a new infographic from Happify, money can buy us a certain amount of happiness — depending on how you choose to spend it....

A new generation of apps is introducing millions of consumers to the idea of using their phones as payment tools.  This is especially true in the context of peer-to-peer payment transactions. These include money transfe...

KATMANDU, Nepal -- About five climbers are feared buried by an avalanche that swept the slopes of Mount Everest on Friday and hit a route used to ascent the world’s...

The boy has been suspended but is too young to face prosecution

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California man who fled the U.S. to live on his yacht has been convicted of selling the U.S. military more than $2.6 million in cheap, knock-off batteries that were used in aircraft...

A demonstration of the hair product Caboki has garnered more than 5 million views since being posted on YouTube about a week ago, and it's easy to see why. Simply by having someone rub a can of the product against his he...

Automakers are slowly but surely pushing the traditional manual transmission toward obsolescence, and that's bad news for drivers who prize the skill and control of a manual gearshift. The case against manuals is strong....

BEIJING (AP) — China's government says in a report that nearly one-fifth of the country's farmland is polluted, mostly from yearslong accumulations of toxins from factories, mining and agriculture. The report raises sh...

A battle for filmmaking tax credits has begun in several states -- including in California, the home of Hollywood -- and has led to cutbacks in others like Maryland.

Eight thousand is a perfectly arbitrary number. Yet, no other number looms larger for mountain climbers. Fourteen mountain peaks stand taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). There could have been many more of these “e...

Capt's evacuation order came half-hour after SKorean official's order, according to transcript

The U.S. government has reportedly warned asset managers that it's planning further sanctions against Russia for its intervention in Ukraine.

Kimberley Davis, the Australian woman who made headlines eight months ago for saying she didn't care that she hit a cyclist while driving and texting and got annoyed that the accident damaged her car, pleaded guilty earl...

The likelihood that near-field communication (NFC) will take off as an in-store mobile payments technology is still far from certain, but if it fails it won't be for lack of NFC-enabled phones. In 2013, 275 million mobil...

Twenty eight passengers are officially listed as dead, 179 have been rescued and 268 are missing.

An underwater drone dipped into the ocean Friday for its fifth trip to search for traces of the missing Malaysian plane as relatives of those aboard maintained their demand for answers.