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Michelangelo: His Epic Life. By Martin Gayford. Fig Tree; 662 pages. LORENZO DE’ MEDICI, ruler of the Florentine Republic, was so taken by a statue carved by an adolescent that he proposed to make the sculptor a member...

The Canadian college student who made headlines after live-streaming his suicide attempt to 200 4chan users last month has been charged with arson and disregard for human life, CTV News reports. The 21-year-old male id...

As one of the largest jackpots in U.S. lottery history climbs to $550 million and potentially beyond, we're reminded that winning the lottery will not solve all problems. In fact many people's lives became notably wor...

One of the most famous and important books in human history is now available for viewing online in high-resolution thanks to archivists at Oxford University and the Vatican Library. The "Gutenberg Bible" was printed by J...

From the don't-try-this-at-home category we give you a fun video showing a 27-year-old Mac PC navigating the modern Internet. Given how fast technology changes, 27-years in tech is like over 100 human years.  It's a lit...

Companies in New Mexico and Missouri could begin slaughtering horses within a few weeks after a federal appeals court removed a temporary ban that was preventing domestic horse slaughter from…

SEATTLE (AP) -- Political pressure is building in support of letting Puget Sound machinists vote on a Boeing contract proposal in high-stakes negotiations to keep thousands of jobs in Washington state.     

Ford and the Henry Ford museum are taking their vast trove of historical documents, photos, video and other items and digitizing them so they can be shared online with the…

Sprint is working toward a possible bid for rival T-Mobile, people familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for a giant telecom merger that if permitted by regulators would...

Google just bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon, reports The New York Times. Boston Dynamics is based in Waltham, Mass. The company creates "machines t...

Adobe Systems Inc., the Photoshop software maker, said fourth-quarter profit shrank as a shift to cloud-based software cuts into profitability. The results fell short of expectations, but subscription-based revenue jumpe...

Nearly done with a 10-day trade mission to Asia, Governor Deval Patrick already presided over two deals with Massachusetts firms in Japan, and expects to lay the groundwork for more as he hits Hong Kong and Singapore.  ...

BEIJING (AP) -- A gas explosion at a coal mine in western China has killed 21 workers, an official said Saturday.     

OF THE many thousands of usually small protests that break out in China every year, few relate to national policy. Many consider the risk of challenging the central government too great. But the entrance to the agricultu...

If computers and robots are taking over the manufacturing world, Billings businessman Graydon Udelhoven wants to be their master.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Firefighters who work at San Francisco International Airport are receiving additional training on how to respond to airplane crashes following the Asiana Airlines accident in which a teenage girl wa...

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Twinkling lights, ornament-strewn trees and bustling campgrounds. Those are signs of the Christmas season in this Kentucky town, where the Amazon.com distribution center recruits an armada of ...

When the economy tanks as it did in the recent recession, that?s a strong signal that things have to change, and it?s hard to miss. But most of us in business have to deal most of the time with weak signals, or change th...

Mandela event shows how Secret Service often at mercy of host government on president's trips WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours before President Barack Obama arrived at a Johannesburg soccer stadium to honor Nelson Mandel...

A department manager may be about to re-encounter a predecessor who had been fired, and asks the Workologist for advice.     

Anyone who has followed the work of legendary investor Peter Lynch (manager of Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990) closely cannot help but ask which stocks he would avoid in today's markets.

Barclays has launched a global start-up accelerator program to find ten companies that can "shape the future of financial services".