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Yahoo pays 17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio about $30 million for Summly. The Web giant also gains someone who truly thinks and lives in the mobile world.SAN FRANCISCO — Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old British entr...

"Have you ever looked up the word 'intercourse' in the dictionary?" Cliff said, gruffly. He was an 87-year-old resident of Bayberry Care Center. I was a high school recreation volunteer. "Well," he said, "I never had it....

Out of the world's estimated 7 billion people, six billion have access to mobile phones. Far fewer -- only 4.5 billion people -- have access to working toilets

The singer is more than $10 million in debt stemming from mismanagement.

Opinion: The debate over same-sex marriage is going to have a strong religious component. But Marc Stern argues that the U.S. government should not further one religious view on gay marriage over another.

A colorful and energetic festival, Holi is celebrated by Hindus throughout India, and traditionally heralds the beginning of spring. While the national holiday occurs on March 27, there are regional versions that take pl...

A Texas biolab lost a vial of Guanarito, a deadly virus from Venezuela.

Talk to most professionals about their ultimate goals, and you’ll get the same responses – work for myself, travel the world, and maybe even win fame and fortune. Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startu...

Discussion in court touched on legal standing, the voice of children and the relative newness of gay marriage.

A California man has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle a cellphone to jailed cult leader Charles Manson at Corcoran State Prison. Craig Carlisle Hammond, 63, was arrested Sunday on charges of unauthorized com...

A 14-year-old girl has been found dead at a house where a number of dogs were "out of control".

James Cameron, who rode the Deepsea Challenger into the sea’s deepest spot last year, hopes the collaboration will speed ocean exploration.

He lost the Labour leadership battle to his brother - and now David Miliband is apparently taking up a charity job in New York.

TOKYO (Reuters) - If past is precedent, optimists hoping Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will defy vested interests to take bold action to open the country to more competition as a way to spur growth could well be in ...

Health secretary plans to name and shame failing hospitals and bar failing managers from the service after Mid Staffs scandal Failing hospitals will be named and shamed and NHS managers responsible for failures will be b...

Police are trying to locate as many as 20 women after investigators found cellphones, driver's licenses, identification cards and other items in the Woodstock home of a man charged with sexually assaulting five women he ...

For variety, charm, oddity and rugged urban beauty, there is nothing in New York like eating and drinking your way across Red Hook.

The last of the Navy's Type 42 destroyer is making its final home voyage home to Portsmouth before it is decommissioned.

Tiger Woods captures the aura of old to eclipse the struggling Rory McIlroy, says golf correspondent Iain Carter

The daughter of former astronaut Mark Kelly was walking her dog Shiner on Goff Island Beach when the dog bolted, ripping the leash from her hand and fatally attacking a beached baby sea lion.

Foreign secretary, who was beaten to the Labour leadership by his brother in 2010, is to take up charity role in New York David Miliband is to step down as an MP to take up a charity role in New York, it has been reporte...

Thousands mark opening of five-day anti-globalisation event, the first to take place in an Arab country.