SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the biggest technology deals of the past decade, Facebook agreed to buy WhatsApp for $16 billion to expand in the fast-growing mobile messaging market and pursue its goal of connecting as much of the world's population as ...
Two weeks weeks ago, Victoria Nuland, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe, apologized for using a profanity during an intercepted phone call as she criticized the European Union for not moving fast enough to address the crisis in Ukraine.
Two Americans providing antipiracy security on the Maersk Alabama, a ship made famous by a 2013 Hollywood film, were found dead in a cabin aboard the vessel, an oil and shipping group said on Wednesday.
Beyoncé stunned at the 2014 Brit Awards - just with the power of her voice. The pop star performed the up-tempo love song “XO” at the music awards show Wednesday, the first time she has sang the track live on television.
TOLUCA, MEXICO - “This is historic,” President Obama pronounced aboard Air Force One on Wednesday. Obama was not talking about his trip to the North American leaders summit in this industrial city.
Tesla Motors Inc. shares soared in extended trading after the electric car maker delivered a strong fourth-quarter performance and said that it expects sales of its vehicles to increase sharply this year.
CARACAS (Reuters) - A local beauty queen died of a gunshot wound on Wednesday in the fifth fatality from Venezuela's political unrest, as imprisoned protest leader Leopoldo Lopez urged supporters to keep fighting for the departure of the socialist ...
The two best-known members of Pussy Riot today said they had been beaten and attacked with horsewhips during an action hostile to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Winter Olympics host city Sochi.
Missouri police have charged a middle-school football coach with first-degree murder in the abduction and death of a 10-year-old girl in southwest Missouri.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize medal and personal Bible must be moved to a court-controlled safety deposit box, a judge ruled on Wednesday as the late civil rights leader's children are engaged in a fight over ownership of ...
WASHINGTON—Federal authorities are telling airlines to be on the lookout for bombs concealed in shoes. The Department of Homeland Security's warning stems from intelligence that says terrorists could use explosives packed in shoes to take down ...
MILWAUKEE/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Investigators looking into possible wrongdoing by Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker expanded their probe the day before he was elected governor in 2010, seizing computers and hard drives from his offices, ...
More than 300,000 personal records for faculty, staff and students who have received identification cards at the University of Maryland were comprised in a computer security breach this week, school officials said.
A top European Union regulator raised concerns Wednesday that new Federal Reserve rules for foreign banks operating in the U.S. could place an unfair burden on EU financial firms.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Safeway Inc (SWY.N), the second-largest U.S. mainstream grocery store operator, said on Wednesday it is in talks about a possible sale of the company.
A Nebraska judge on Wednesday struck down a law that allowed the Keystone XL pipeline to proceed through the state, a setback for the project that would carry oil from Canada to Texas refineries.
Nebraska judge strikes down legislature’s move allowing Keystone XL route District Court judge Stephanie F. Stacy blocked Gov. Dave Heineman (R) and other defendants “from taking any action on the …governor’s January 22, 2013 approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline route,” such as allowing land to be acquired by eminent domain for the project . Stacy concluded that the state legislature’s decision to take the siting power away from its Public Ser...
INTERNET. Google's fast service expands. Google wants to offer ultra-fast Internet service in 34 more cities scattered across eight states in the company's boldest challenge to cable and telecommunications providers.
No monkeys are involved, as far as we know, and the goal is not to recreate the works of Shakespeare. But a mind-boggling example of crowd-sourced behavior is currently happening on streaming video network Twitch.
The proposal, to be introduced by Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the commission, will prohibit broadband companies from blocking any sites or services from consumers.
The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the …media. So much for the #FirstAmendment . It appears the DNC is upset that they have lost their stranglehold on "news" and "journalists", since the advent of talk radio and Fox News. As liberal journalists stand in line to be Obama's next ...
CeeLo Green went rogue when he decided to announce his exit from NBC's “The Voice” on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which released video of the singer's announcement on Tuesday evening.
Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer: Marvel Studios Turns Up the Laughs The first trailer for the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy debuted late last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
BEVERLY HILLS - For seven months, Pharrell has been goading pop fans to "clap along if you feel like a room without a roof." Happy finally has blasted through the roof, selling 1.3 million downloads, rising to No.
It took Tony Stewart a while, but his feelings about Richard Petty's comments that Danica Patrick could only win a Sprint Cup race if "everybody else stayed home" finally bubbled over.
The Russian hockey players lined up to shake hands after losing to Finland and being eliminated from the Olympic tournament. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times.
If the Winter Olympics were a game of poker, figure skater Ashley Wagner would be in trouble. Check out her best expressions from Sochi ... The many faces of Ashley Wagner from the Sochi Olympics.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office says it is taking over the investigation into a physical altercation between Baltimore Ravens star running back Ray Rice and his fiancee, Janay Palmer, in the Revel Casino Hotel that police records say left Palmer ...
Asian elephants console and reassure each other when they are distressed by touching and 'talking', according to a new study that suggests the animals are capable of empathy and reassurance.
A study of 26 Asian elephants has shown that the animals appear to console each other in times of stress through touching and even “talking” to each other. The consoling elephants were observed puttin…g their trunks into the mouths of distressed peers, in what has been interpreted as the elephant equivalent of a hug or a handshake. This gesture was sometimes accompanied by high, chirping vocalisations that the researchers did not hear when an elep...
Duke University Health System President and CEO Dr. Victor Dzau was named president of the Institute of Medicine, succeeding the longtime president, Dr.
In a bid to reduce rates of cesarean sections that have climbed more than 60% in the past 15 years, two major medical societies issued guidelines today that urge women and doctors to have more patience during labor, allowing nature to take its course rather ...
When it comes to using mammograms as a tool to screen women for breast cancer, how do you define success? At a minimum, you'd want to know that women who get mammograms are less likely to die of breast cancer than women who didn't get the tests.
