Thanksgiving and the annual debate over that damn green bean casserole with the Durkee’s fried onions on top is coming up fast. Will you offer an urbane alternative like green beans with prosciutto and pine nuts to your recalcitrant relatives, or ...

Clean water is one thing that most Americans take for granted. But with aging infrastructure, climate change and an accelerating world population, keeping clean water running from our taps is a growing challenge, both physically and politically.

We confirmed Biggs’ death with the Broward County medical examiner. The Justin.tv video and many of the forum posts have been taken down.

How clueless can Sarah Palin be? Come on! Beheading turkeys + news conference = bad idea.

American dominance is likely to weaken by 2025 as India and China grow stronger, a new US intelligence report says.

AFP - A bomb ripped through a funeral procession Friday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 40 others, police and hospital officials said.

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat-related causes in Iraq.

On today's Internet, algorithms rule. But a handful of startups are using large-scale human participation to offer online services that computers alone can't deliver. Can human judgment scale with the Web?

AP - A Chinese official says 19,065 of the people who died in May's massive earthquake in Sichuan province have been identified.

It's here. Google Street View, over the air Podcast downloads from iTunes and much more.

The Linux desktop comes with a variety of multimedia players, such as Xine, MPlayer, and Amarok. Yet all digital media players are only as good as the files they have to work with, and preparing those files requires the best tag editor you can find. ...

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech on national security at a hotel in Washington on Thursday, CNN reported.

EGYPTIAN police have rounded up hundreds of teenage boys in Cairo in a day-long crackdown on sexual harassment. "We have arrested a large number of boys who were flirting with girls," Cairo's police director Faruq Lashin said. About 400 teenagers, ...

AP - Police say a blast at the funeral of a Shiite Muslim cleric has killed at least six people in northwestern Pakistan.

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Parents may disapprove of the amount of time their teenagers spend online but they are actually learning important social and technical skills, according to a study released on Thursday.

AFP - An Australian mayor who invited ugly women to move to his outback mining town, saying even they would find a man there, has won the top "award" for the most sexist public comment of the year.

In a unanimous vote, MLB owners today approved Hal Steinbrenner to assume control of the Yankees at the request of his father. “I realize it’s a great responsibility,” said Hal Steinbrenner, who turns 40 on Dec. 3. “My dad is, needless to ...