LOS ANGELES- Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman has confirmed her plan to seek the Republican nomination in California's gubernatorial election next year, a statement on her website said...
WASHINGTON - Facebook, in a move aimed at boosting its appeal to advertisers, teamed up with measurement company Nielsen on Tuesday to allow marketers to better gauge ad performance on the social...
TAIPEI, Peter Harmsen - The world's first panda robot is taking shape at a cutting-edge lab in Taiwan where an ambitious group of scientists hope to add new dimensions to the island's reputation as a...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will hold a three-way meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday, the White House said.
The...
WASHINGTON, Laurent Lozano - US President Barack Obama geared up Saturday for whirlwind meetings next week with counterparts from China, Japan and Russia, but Iran's firebrand leader looked set to be...
STOCKHOLM - The film version of part two of Swedish author Stieg Larsson's cult "Millennium" crime trilogy opened in cinemas across Scandinavia on Friday.
"The Girl Who Played With Fire" opened in...
PAPEETE - Veteran French Polynesia leader Gaston Flosse, an ally of former president Jacques Chirac, was questioned in a graft probe in Tahiti Friday as police searched his home and party...
SAN FRANCISCO - Charges against a revered former Hmong guerrilla leader accused of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos from California have been dropped, justice officials said...
CHICAGO, Mira Oberman- A relatively tiny new ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been unearthed in China, researchers said Thursday.
The three-meter-long (10-foot) dinosaur dubbed the Raptorex...
LONDON, Alice Ritchie - British designers who abandoned their homeland for the bright lights of New York, Milan and Paris are returning in droves this season in what promises to be the most exciting...