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Sony has launched the PS Vita Slim in the US today, 6 May. The rejigged version of the PlayStation handheld has been available in Japan since the end of last year and in Britain from 7 February. Now it's available for ga...

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What will happen in episode 4 of "Devious Maids"? Get the scoop on "Crimes of the Heart" here! Devious Maids

Roughly 10 years ago a publicist arranged for a Chinese entrepreneur to come to the New York offices of the business magazine where I worked at the time. Expecting the standard PR routine I was hardly prepared for the ch...

Chinese internet giant Alibaba has officially filed for an initial public offering. The $1 billion fundraising target that Alibaba gives is just a placeholder and it will likely be raising much more, according to New Yor...

Former President Bill Clinton apparently needed a drink after his first big meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Clinton's ex-Chief of Staff John Podesta recounted the story of the President's post-Putin drin...

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo said Monday they're working to remove a controversial ingredient from all their drinks, including Mountain Dew, Fanta and Powerade.The ingredient, called brominated vegetable oil, had been the targe...

A judge met with lawyers who have filed lawsuits contending that gold prices are manipulated.

The NASCAR inspired Plymouth Superbird is a motoring icon, and it is still generating excitement. A modern day version based on the Dodge Challenger hits the track with more than 1,000 horsepower headed to the rear wheel...

If there is one night of the year when you can be sure that the fashion won't disappoint, it's the Met Gala. And this year was one for the books. Yesterday evening the biggest designers, editors and celebrities came toge...

The Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram gained worldwide notoriety this week after they admitted to brutally kidnapping 300 high school girls last month and threatening to sell them into marriages. But the group has long...

Household Hacker reminds shares a video with five uses for shaving cream, including one we didn't know: it can stop your doors from squeaking.

The White House will send a team to Nigeria to aid in the search for nearly 300 kidnapped teenage girls, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in an interview with ABC News. See also: Bring Back Our Girls: Why the ...

The U.S. is a “living hell” and Americans live “wretched lives” according to a news analysis released by North Korea, a rebuttal to the highly-critical United Nations report that revealed the country's widespre...

The girls were relaxing in their dorms at the Government Girls Secondary School in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok when gunmen arrived in trucks, cars and on motorcycles. There were dozens of them — suspected jiha...

The top executives of Berkshire Hathaway believe in trusting their employees.

More than 270 girls remain captive after being kidnapped on April 15.

Coca-Cola said on Monday that it will stop using brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in all of its drinks, giving in to the request of a Change.org petition started by a teenager. 

For the unfamiliar, Cristiano Ronaldo will probably be the one rampaging through the U.S. defense when Portugal plays the U.S. at this summer's World Cup. The Real Madrid forward is the best player in the world right now...

Barclays leads the U.K.'s FTSE 100 lower on Tuesday after a weak earnings report, although most U.K. stocks advance after better-than-expected data for the country's services sector.

Tongues whose closest contact with China might only be tofu in a Chinatown restaurant in the U.S. or Europe are aflutter this week about the Chinese IPO that may be the world’s largest ever: e-commerce giant Alibaba Gr...

The Islamist terror group Boko Haram said in a video released Monday that it would sell a group of more than 250 young girls abducted from a school in northeast Nigeria three weeks ago as bride slaves. Many fear that som...