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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.

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

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 ...

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.

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

Obama administration appoints Julia Pierson as director of agency which was marred by prostitution scandal last year.

Cyprus is toast. Capital inflows have been cut off, uninsured depositors, bank shareholders and bond holders have been wiped out, and Cyprus' offshore banking model is kaput. The troika is putting a gun to Cyprus' head a...

Justin Bieber is being investigated for allegations of misdemeanor battery and making threats following a verbal altercation with a neighbor, a law enforcement official told ABC News. L.A. County Sheriff’s spokesm...

There's a fine line between sympathetic coverage of an issue and advocacy of a cause. The Huffington Post isn't afraid to cross it.

Justin Bieber's neighbor accused the singer of "battery and threats" after a confrontation outside his Calabasas, California, home on Tuesday morning, a law enforcement spokesman said.

What makes a truck tough? "A 'tough' truck is one that can perform at its best in the worst-case scenario, get beat-up and still live to tell the tale, and handle a heavy load without complaint," says Lauren Fletcher, ma...

Via Twitter, William Kramer points out something funny. Here's a review of Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig's The Bankers' New Clothes excerpted by Amazon: Maybe regulators will finally listen to Admati and Hellwig after t...

comScore released its first analysis that un-duplicates desktop and mobile platforms US Internet usage.  Overall there are about 236 million Internet users in the US.  221 million or 94% of total them utilized a de...