Pilgrims staked out spots on the sand of Copacabana beach for an all-night slumber party ahead of the final Mass of Pope Francis' stay in Brazil, a trip that has drawn rapturous crowds of up to 3 million faithful.

Omnicom Group Inc. and Publicis Groupe SA say they are combining in a "merger of equals" that will create the world's largest advertising firm, one worth more than $30 billion.

Google paid $966 million in cash for traffic report app Waze, according to its second quarter financial report.

It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass.

A bus trip back to an Indianapolis church ended in tragedy Saturday afternoon with bloodied bodies, luggage strewn everywhere and three dead, in addition to at least 19 injured, after the vehicle flipped over.

According to a new study from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, social media ranks third to last in customer satisfaction among surveyed industries, falling one notch below the notoriously reviled airline industry.

Body of bride-to-be pulled from Hudson and best man presumed dead after boat crashes into barge in Hudson River north of Tappan Zee Bridge.

MIAMI - Seven people were shot and killed at an apartment building in a Miami suburb early Saturday, including the suspected gunman who was holding two hostages when SWAT team moved in, police said.

To hear most recent research tell it, coffee is a miracle drink. The magic beans will ward off skin cancer and Alzheimer’s, reduce heart failure and diabetes risks, heighten focus, and maybe even protect liver health.

European Union and Chinese negotiators reached an agreement to curb EU imports of solar panels from China in exchange for exempting the shipments from punitive tariffs.

A member of the Pink Panthers, a notorious gang of jewel thieves behind international robberies worth more than €300m, has escaped from a Swiss jail after armed accomplices breached the prison’s defences .

The term “Comet of the Century” is bandied about by astronomers, researchers and other space boffins every twenty years or so, only to fall short and disappoint skywatchers the world over.

Eike Batista, ranked as the world’s eighth-richest person last year, ceased to be a billionaire after Mubadala Development Co. converted an investment in his companies into debt, further eroding the value of his assets.

Ippo the "zonkey", a zebra-donkey hybrid was born, July 2013 at a Florence reserve in Italy.

The new Mers virus, which has killed half of those infected, is "unlikely" to reach the same scale as Sars, ministers in Saudi Arabia say.

The taller a postmenopausal woman is, the greater her risk for developing cancer, according to a new, large study of American women. Similar results have been found in other Western populations, including in the United Kingdom and Canada, and in Asia ...

NASA's Van Allen Probes have demonstrated that the Van Allen belts replenish themselves just days after a solar storm has blown their charged particles away.

Whether performing on a Broadway stage, singing in a movie musical, or hosting the Oscars, Hugh Jackman approaches them all with equal intensity. Yet, when he dons Adamantium bone claws in "Wolverine," the 44-year old actor admits that some ...

President Obama has nominated former first daughter Caroline Kennedy to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan.

As state laws decriminalizing marijuana begin to take effect (and grow in number), proponents of access to the drug have been holding their breaths to see how the feds would react. And in Washington State, it looks like several medical marijuana disp ...