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Who can resist romance between the commander-in-chief and the first lady on Valentine's Day? Married on October 18, 1992, Barack and Michelle Obama have captured our hearts with their love for one another. Obama mentio...

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Editor’s Note: This interview is one in a series produced by the Skoll World Forum with the participation of today’s leading thinkers and innovators in education.  All of the contributors represent projects that ...

Microsoft is going to release Office for iPad "sooner than you think," says Microsoft reporter, Mary Jo Foley. She thinks its out in the first half of this year, and in a bit of a bombshell, she thinks it could be read...

By Brian Perry

Crying into a pint of ice cream alone on Valentine's Day? Talking through your problems with your cat? Taking your mom to your office holiday party? Hardly. These are absurd stereotypes of singledom — not the reality. ...

CNN's Nina dos Santos speaks to jewellery expert Vashi Dominguez about the direction of the diamond market in 2014.

Even as we leave the first month of 2014 behind, some people are still staying strong with their New Year's resolutions, including those self-made promises to get healthy.  It's not too late to start a fitness goal, eit...

by archdaily.Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually.   Here's that Aquatics Center, clad in Teflon-like translucent plastic Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETF...

Tom Perkins, who made headlines last month for his controversial letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal comparing the persecution of Jews in Germany to the "war on the 1%" in the U.S., was back at it again Thurs...

Earlier today, Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten announced that it would be buying Viber for $900 million. Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani explained that the messaging app could be used as a way for customers to talk with...

As veterans of a major housing meltdown not so long ago, Americans are fond of pointing out what is often seen as crazy behavior among China's home buyers, and the headlines are full of portents of doom for anyone buying...

Campus cards are the subject of a report by the Government Accountability Office, which recommends tougher regulations to make sure students get a fair deal.     

The slide below comes from BofA Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett's latest note: Join the conversation about this story »     

On Feb. 14 last year, just two months after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, an 18-year-old in Texas named Justin Carter was arrested. Carter, an avid gamer, got into a spat with a fellow League of Legends play...

Facebook put together this cool map of the most talked about Winter Olympic sports in every country during the first week of the Olympics. Some observations (see continent-by-continent maps below): Europe loves biathlon....

Johnny Weir has put his own stamp on the Sochi Olympics with his amazing outfits and now one of his own designs may have helped a figure skater win a gold medal. After being a bit critical of one skater's costume earlier...

Thrifty Germans are leaving the country's lenders with a glut of deposits, and the banks are finding it hard to put those funds to work and earn a decent return.

The official slogan for the Sochi Olympics is "Hot. Cool. Yours." Prior to the Olympics we could not have anticipated just how prescient that would be. With temperatures reaching the 60s on several days, the warm weather...

    If you think curling is one of those sports you don't need muscles for to win, you couldn't be more wrong. Olympic curlers work out constantly year-round so they can keep their edge on the ice. But what does it rea...

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik threatened to go on a hunger strike over "torture"-like prison conditions. Among his complaints? He wanted to upgrade consoles and "more adult games" he could choose himself, accord...

Dr. Charles Denham rattles off names like the Clinton Global Health Initiative, the Discovery Channel, the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School when discussing those he's worked with. Now, the Justice Department has na...