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A plane carrying more than 130 passengers overshot the runway at Bali airport and went into the sea on Saturday but everybody on board survived, a transport ministry official said. The Lion Air Boeing 737 jet overshot th...

Tinder, the online dating app, has exploded in popularity precisely because of its bare-bones simplicity. There's purposefully no profiles to fill out, and Tinder's creators...

Guest Post With the immigration debate in Washington heating up, Americans across the country recognize that we need smart and practical solutions to help reform our country's broken immigration system. Here's what you c...

When Liu Zhijun, the former Railways Minister in China and once one of the country's most important men, was talking to his family lawyer about representing him in an upcoming corruption case, he had one clear request. "...

Firm signs cease-and-desist but says will fight charges.

BEIJING (AP) -- A 7-year-old girl has become Beijing's first confirmed case of a new strain of the bird flu virus that has killed 11 people and sickened 37 others in eastern China, officials said Saturday. The girl, whos...

Saving money for retirement is difficult enough. Don't undermine your hard work by paying a steeper-than-necessary tax bill. The right long-term decisions about IRAs, Roth IRAs, taxable savings accounts and asset allocat...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will vote to expand background checks, NBC reported Saturday. Collins told NBC's Kelly O'Donnell "I do intend to support" the bill,...

NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Louisiana-based meat packing company has expanded a recall of meat products because of possible bacterial...

The following is a wonkish discussion of one aspect of the White House budget. The President's budget will never see the light of day, but I think it is instructive to look at this component of the plan, and expose it fo...

Watsi, a start-up founded by a former Peace Corps volunteer, is using crowdfunding to provide health care to patients in third-world countries.

The nation's dated communications infrastructure makes it hard to find the ideal way to thwart illegal robocalling.

As anyone who has ever gone to the gym can tell you there are two components to a workout's difficulty: intensity (how heavy is the weight) and duration (are you lifting it five times or 20). Might the same be true of wo...

Microsoft may knock Google's search results, but its Google that's doing a better job of blocking malicious sites.

The main problem with estate planning for families is that families are involved. They have this tendency to behave like families and not families like this one:

While the FAA denies that a hack can take over the flight controls of a plane, one researcher is saying, "Put up or shut up."

If you've spent any time working with a lawyer lately, you know how difficult it is to track the hours he or she is billing you. You basically just have trust them. Well, a new app, Viewabill, turns the tables around. He...

Terahertz spectroscopy, the imaging technology used in airport body scanners, has uncovered a hidden, ancient fresco underneath a wall painting at the Louvre.

Check it out: We got a sneak peek at the Exploratorium's new digs! San Francisco's 44-year-old science museum got some major upgrades with its change of location, as well. It's three times bigger, features indoor and out...

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale User reviews of Facebook Home, the social network's new home screen feature for Android phones, are coming in pretty weak. A day after Facebook released the so...

Facebook Home is so riveting, even Facebook employees can't pay attention to anything but what their friends are doing. Even when their CEO is giving them a pep talk.

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