New York--Rupert Murdoch is preparing to step down as chief executive of the media-entertainment conglomerate 21st Century Fox and hand the job to...
New York--Rupert Murdoch is preparing to step down as chief executive of the media-entertainment conglomerate 21st Century Fox and hand the job to...
London--Tall, pale and with a deep resonating voice, British actor Christopher Lee, whose death was confirmed Thursday, will forever be remembered for his...
New York--Saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, whose 1959 album "The Shape of Jazz to Come" is considered one of the most groundbreaking in...
Juan Felipe Herrera Washington---A writer of Latino descent was named US poet laureate on Wednesday -- a first for the country's booming Hispanic...
Ed Sheeran New York---The English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will headline the Global Citizen Festival, a free concert in New York aimed at rallying...
London---For centuries, women and sometimes men have squeezed their feet into tiny shoes or balanced on towering heels to feel sexy, empowered and...
San Francisco--Microsoft on Wednesday set out to boost workplace collaboration with a giant Surface Hub touch screen tailored for brainstorming. The touch-screen Surface...
Paris - In a world first, a woman has given birth after surgeons implanted ovarian tissue that had been removed when she was...
Paris - A single vaccine shot, rather than the recommended triple dose, may be enough to protect women against cervical cancer, a study...
New York - Asked to name music superstars, few in the general public would immediately think of Les Paul. But 100 years after...
Washington - NASA scientists working toward putting people on Mars said Tuesday a supersonic parachute they are developing to slow a vehicle's approach...
Washington - US technology companies are getting hit harder than anticipated by revelations about surveillance programs led by the National Security Agency, a...
Chiang Saen, Thailand---In the lush, green hills of northern Thailand, a woman painstakingly picks coffee beans out of a pile of elephant dung,...
Mumbai--India's five-time world boxing champion and Olympic bronze medallist Mary Kom is to star in animated form as the country's first cartoon girl...
Los Angeles---The comedy espionage spoof "Spy" took in $29.1 million in its debut weekend as it topped the box office charts, industry figures...
Los Angeles---The fearsome dinosaurs from 1993 classic "Jurassic Park" are back for their fourth outing this week -- and they're genetically-modified and computer-animated...
