Russian media say the NSA leaker will be allowed to leave the airport, and his lawyer says he plans to seek a job.

Acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert said he's been diagnosed with cancer again and that he will scale back his prolific writing of movie reviews while undergoing radiation treatment. In a blog post, the 70-year-old said he'll take a "lea ...

Look around your house, look around your office. What percentage of products - furniture, fashion and accessories, electronics, housewares, appliances - do you think were made in China? Based on market data, chances are that number is close to 50%.

These are stimulating times for anyone interested in questions of animal consciousness. On what seems like a monthly basis, scientific teams announce the results of new experiments, adding to a preponderance of evidence that we’ve been underestimati ...

Class-action lawsuits among the latest headaches for Silicon Valley's tech-taxi darling.

The untold story of two dogged FBI agents, witnesses on the lam, and the surrender of self inside the Church of Scientology. . John Brousseau hadn't been seen for hours, not at the afternoon muster and not at the dinner break. That's when t ...

The second day of James Eagan Holmes' pretrial hearing included testimony on the explosives he'd allegedly set in his apartment and 911 calls from the night of the mass shooting.

New technologies reveal ambiguities and hidden assumptions in international humanitarian law.

Ultra cold atoms pave way for negative-Kelvin materials.

Letters from a new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art show Kubrick's concern.

In an ongoing effort to crack down on tax evasion, the UK government today published a Flickr page of the "top tax cheats" of 2012. The profiles break down the crimes of 32 criminals that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) senten ...

Facebook is the Internet's phone book. Twitter is its wire service. In Tumblr, 26-year-old Karp has built the Web's canvas. Now can he shape it into a money machine?

New Year’s Day has long been one of my favorite holidays. It caps a week of year-in-review stories that underscores how ghastly the past year has been – fiscal cliffs, mass shootings, super s...

Zynga closed down 11 games as part of a cost-cutting move.

Orient Shopping Center in Shanghai, 15 people injured, 3 sharks dead and a lot of water damage!

Digging through the layers of a bauxite mine in Hungary, an international team of paleontologists has uncovered fossilized remains of several Mosasaurs. The remains of  the massive lizards that lived in the Cretaceous Period have revealed some surpri ...

The Guardian reported last October that a new edition of Clement C Moore's 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, which is widely attributed with popularizing the modern image of Santa Claus, has censored all references to the visitor's pi...

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even those in the lighthearted holiday fare you were planning to watch on Netflix, which has been down since 1pm PST for some customers. Netflix confi ...