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After a messy confirmation -- which asked new questions about drone assassinations and old questions about enhanced interrogations -- John Brennan has taken over at CIA. But his past may not be so easily forgotten in a w...

The one and only time I ever made my own clothing was in grade 8 home economics. The entire class had to make Jams, brightly colored baggy shorts that made everyone instantly feel like a surfer. The pattern was provided ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel traveled to Afghanistan seeking to reduce tensions between the Afghan government and U.S. Special Forces who face allegations of supporting armed men accused of abusing civilians.

Even though China signed on to sanctions against North Korea, it still shields the regime, says Jennifer Lind.

Documentary film maker Ian Thomas Ash reflects on the disaster that struck Japan two years ago. ->

A British climber skids 100 feet down an ice cliff, with minor injuries, and his helmet cam records the whole thing. ->

For the Nuns of New Skete, a simple, pious life; for their customers, rich, tempting cheesecakes.

Highway project to connect illegal Israeli settlements threatens to destroy Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem.

A 6-month-old girl and her father were seriously wounded this afternoon in a drive-by shooting outside a home in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.

A man suspected of killing his grandparents hours after being let out of jail is described as an "extreme danger to the public".

On Saturday researchers from Oxford University presented data from a 25,673 patient clinical trial funded by Merck that many doctors say should probably end the widespread use of the B vitamin niacin as a heart drug, bot...

Prominent lawyer says bill 'will be used to shield governmental wrongdoing from public and judicial scrutiny' The prominent international lawyer Prof Philippe Sands QC has resigned from the Liberal Democrats in protest a...

Relatives of a Briton thought to have been murdered by a Nigerian Islamist militant group say they are saddened and pay tribute to a "lovable rogue".

Latin America is a very important market for DirecTV, constituting close to 25% of its total value by our estimates. In order to maintain its competitive position, DirecTV is planning to increase its satellite capacity i...

We have the cloud, we have big data, we have social networks and we have mobile computing. The sum total is more than the parts; it's amounting to a big data cloud that is surrounding and defining businesses of all types...

Can't get enough of Square Enix's and Crystal Dynamics' new 'Tomb Raider' reboot? In the need for a Lara action figure? But were you thinking to yourself "Self, I'd like a Lara Croft action figure, but not a realistic on...

The New York judge who struck down Michael Bloomberg's ban on jumbo soft drinks did us all a public service by reminding the mayor of a simple fact about constitutional democracy: It's about elected legislators making to...

For more than a dozen years I've been privileged to serve as on-air technology analyst for CBS Radio News and one of the programs I love to contribute to and listen to is the World News Roundup, which turns 75 this...

Harvard University administrators confirm they searched the emails of deans as part of an investigation into a leak of a student cheating scandal.

On the 75th anniversary of Austria's Anschluss with Germany, the famous orchestra is giving up dark secrets about its past On 23 March 1938, the violinist Viktor Robitsek received a curt note from the management of the V...

13 wounded after drive-by shooting outside DC apartment building; 1 in critical condition

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith dismisses the Archbishop of Canterbury's claim that benefit changes will drive more children into poverty.