Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the U.K. will take legal action to recover money held by British savers in branches of troubled Icelandic banks.

A pack of cards of character assination of long forgotten ‘guilt by association’ a pack of cards of trickery is bound to fall like that of a Childs’ card...

Congressional investigators are looking at a federal government agency’s quick approvals for oil and gas drilling in Utah, a development applauded by...

Target Consumers: High-end touchscreen smartphone users. Should they buy it? Yes. Why? The BlackBerry Storm is the first clickable touchscreen smart phone on the...

This wonderful and weird wooden safe created by designer Alex Schlegel is an interesting, albeit unusual way to secure your valuables. The band-saw box features...

Bare-breasted, hip-thrusting Carnival beauties may stoke lust in some tourists but Brazil authorities hope to temper their ardour with reminders that not all sex in the...

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

Oil prices fell below $87 a barrel Wednesday in Asia on investor concerns that the credit crisis that began in the U.S. will trigger a prolonged global economic...

A meltdown in confidence strangled Asian stock markets Wednesday on accelerating fears that the widening financial crisis could spawn a global recession.

The cool and innovative Shift cutting block is a genuinely effective new kitchen tool that promises to optimize work flow in food preparation and make our efforts in...

China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety...

Target consumers: People who love to hear music on the move. Should they buy it? Yes Why? Sony Ericsson W595 Walkman meets the expectations of people who believe that...

Volvo Cars says it plans to slash more than 3,000 jobs because of decreasing demand.

Ever since cellphones took over the world as the choicest mode of communication, land line phone manufactures have been struggling to keep their businesses afloat. But...

State regulators say a Willie Horton-style campaign ad that suggested the first black member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court freed a child molester played so loose with...

The Asian Development Bank announced Wednesday $35 million in emergency food aid to ease the burden of soaring food prices among some of Cambodia’s poorest...

Russian forces appeared to begin the final stage of a pullback from positions outside Georgia’s separatist South Ossetia region Wednesday, bulldozing a camp at a...

Myanmar’s military rulers have stepped up suppression of political opponents ahead of the country’s elections in 2010, an opposition party spokesman said...

Rebel groups and government-armed militias using child soldiers in the Philippines and 16 other strife-torn countries face prosecution in the United States under a new...

Islanders in the cramped city of Male and scores of far-flung atolls began voting Wednesday in the first democratic presidential election in their tiny nation’s...