Oracle Corp's dismal quarterly results sent shock waves across the technology sector as investors feared they may have overestimated the resilience of corporate tech spending in a deteriorating global

Yahoo Inc is considering a plan to unload most of its prized Asian assets in a complex deal valued at roughly $17 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, winning nods of approval

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, human rights activist Ronan Farrow and pop stars Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are people to watch, according to Forbes magazine’s list of top-achieving people under age 30.

A 29-year old Massachusetts resident has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda and plotting to kill US forces in Iraq.

Tarek Mehanna could end up spe

An increasing number of mothers are taking up jobs as phone sex operators to support their families and increase their income during the economic crisis, a new study has revealed.

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A week-long auction in New York of the late Elizabeth Taylor’s vast collection of luxury dresses, jewels and art works wound down Friday with total sales topping $153 million. The final round of live sales at Christie’s saw movie memorabilia snapped up at prices many times higher than pre-sale estimates.

A 64-year-old woman was burned alive when a man ambushed her in her building's elevator, doused her with a flammable liquid and then set her on fire with a Molotov cocktail in New York.

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A man smelling of petrol walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman set on fire in the elevator of her apartment building, police said Sunday.

The 47-year-o

Do you want to kill a conversation? Try saying ‘whatever.’

Words like ‘you know’ and ‘like’ might be irritating to hear, but for the third year in a row, it's ‘whatever’ that holds the most power to

Janet Robinson will step down as chief executive of the New York Times Co at the end of the month, as the company continues to struggle with advertising declines and a years-long slump in its share pr