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Lady Gaga's Oscar-nominated song tackles a personal and painful subject.

You're likely to be asked some very dumb questions on a job interview -- but how will you answer them? Here are suggested answers for the five dumbest job interview questions.

Learn more about Buffett's two-fund retirement plan.          

While torrents were perhaps created with good intentions, these days it's more or less associated with piracy, and it looks like even after more than 10 years, the world's oldest torrent is actually still active. So whic...

Ever wondered what germs are lurking around in your fancy hotel? Here are the germiest surfaces in three-star, four-star, and five-star hotel rooms.

Kristof Retezár While you're pedaling furiously on the uphills, your water bottle could be hard at work, too. Fontus, a water bottle that takes in moisture from surrounding air, can produce clean, drinkable water in und...

YouTube/Japan Times In 2011, a tsunami initiated by an earthquake caused a massive nuclear meltdown in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Although the Tokyo Electric Power Company has worked to reduce the amount of...

Ford Motor Co. is pulling out of Japan and Indonesia, saying that market conditions in each country have made it difficult to grow sales or make sustained profits. …

The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that shook the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska early Sunday was the strongest quake to hit the south-central region of the state in decades, Alaska's state seismologist said. Magnitude-6.8 earthqua...

So much for the glory of man. Absolutely obliterating the current human record for solving a Rubik's Cube (4.904 seconds), a robot managed to crack the code to the famous puzzle in a mere 1.019 seconds. The post 1 second...

It was a little like being Iron Man

Nearly half of young black men in Chicago are neither in school nor working, far exceeding the share nationally and in comparable big cities, according to a new report. Forty-seven percent of 20- to 24-year-old black men...

The prime minister of Laos has assured visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry that his small nation will help counter China's assertiveness in the South China Sea

Since the most powerful producers, writers and directors are men, Hollywood's films focus on men

A years-long campaign of seemingly disparate cyberattacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists likely comes from a single group of hackers, according to a seven-month study by Palo Alto Networks. The computer security co...

Looking to cut back on how much heater or air-conditioning your office or home uses? One way would be to create better insulation, or use smart windows which are basically windows that can change their tint to reflect li...

Traders and portfolio managers worry that sophisticated institutional investors, who generally tend to take a longer-term view, have been the ones driving the selling over the last six months.

Apple has announced that its 31st retail store in China will open in Qingdao, a port city bordering the East China Sea, on Saturday, January 30 at 10:00 a.m. local time. The store will be located in the new MixC luxury s...

 Facebook today officially announced that it plans to open its second European data center in Clonee, Ireland. The town, which sits right outside of Dublin will play host to Facebook’s sixth data center overall. Const...

The Twitterverse is split after actress Andie MacDowell took to Twitter to complain that she'd been bumped from a first-class seat she paid for.          

The IARPA has awarded Harvard $28 million to study artificial intelligence and help the famed Boston institution develop "advanced machine learning algorithms by pushing the frontiers of neuroscience." The post Thanks to...

3D printing has loomed on the horizon for many years. Only now has the technology advanced to such an extent that we can confidently say 3D printing is becoming a practical part of the way businesses operate today.