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This week, Letter From London comes to you from Paris, which is of course umbilically connected to London by the Eurostar so we have decided that makes it ok for this column.

In the final 14 questions submitted by jurors to accused murderer Jodi Arias today, the jury indicated they are not fully convinced that Arias killed her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in self-defense.

This sounds like an Onion story, but it actually happened: A twenty-something couple decided to go on a bike trip through South America; when they stopped updating their Facebook pages, their loved ones assumed they'd be...

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Groups representing Federal Air Marshals and flight attendants -- outraged over the Transportation Security Administration's decision to allow small pocketknives back into aircraft cabins -- say they will ask the TSA to ...

After more than three decades of economic prosperity, China faces serious environmental challenges, including its increasingly filthy waterways

Japanese Man Dies After Hospitals Reject Him 36 Times

Exclusive Interview: Did This Bolshoi Ballerina Inspire an Acid Attack?

Two Unidentified Civil War Sailors From the USS Monitor Receive Dignified Transfer at Dulles Airport.

A look back at the rapper's changing appearance.

A "digital apple" a day keeps the doctor away.

The obesity rate in the United States is, on a whole, staying steady, according to a new Gallup-Healthways report. The report shows that the obesity rate was 26.2 percent in 2012, which is about the same as the 26.1 perc...

Dove, a Unilever personal care brand best known for its soap, is getting some buzz among the Digerati for distributing a Photoshop plugin that promises to add skin tone to an image, but actually erases all special effect...

I’m at the Dachis Group Social Business Summit 2013 in Austin listening to a great lineup of speakers on the changing trends of social business and marketing. As a whole, data analytics and BigData are on the top ...

It's the perfect script, written just for us.

States trying to decide whether to expand their Medicaid programs to cover more low-income uninsured might want to take a look at the fate of a more obscure federal program—cash subsidies to state and local govern...

Electoral commission cancels timetable for parliamentary elections which were set to begin next month, state TV reports.

I am writing a book with Robert Scoble. The Age of Context looks at how five technology forces, mobile, social, data, sensors and location are converging into a superstorm of change to work and life. In the hope of getti...

Leadership comes in all shapes and sizes and can be found in unlikely places.  A couple of days ago one of my daughters sent me this video on Facebook.  I liked it: It's not every day you get to hear a 13 year old ...

When actions become symbols what is the message?

John Yoo, the author of the Bush administration legal memos justifying the use of torture, thinks President Obama is really getting too much grief over targeted killing. And he wants Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—who fil...

An award-winning fashion designer who had clothed Oprah Winfrey, Lena Horne and Will Smith was sentenced to 39 years in prison after being convicted of killing his boyfriend in their Lakeview apartment last year.