Dell Inc. has asked employees to consider taking unpaid vacation days or severance packages to help the PC maker cut costs.

As the world suffers a hangover from the financial excesses of the past few years, the tiny island nation of Iceland has a bigger headache than most.

Senate Democrats are urging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to immediately freeze foreclosures on mortgages they hold.

McClatchy Co., the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, is freezing pay across the company for a year starting Sept. 1 in the latest effort to hold down costs.

This January—deep summer in Antarctica—explorer Jon Bowermaster suffered through a five-day stretch of torrential rains on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. The same cannot be said for thousands of downy penguin chicks. Epic rains...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shiite militiamen.The announcement comes one day after Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr hinted at retaliation if the arrests of his followers did not...

The pavement stops abruptly here, giving way to a sandy, washboard road that takes residents to a place where tires keep roofs from blowing away and electricity and running water are scarce.A sign once posted here read: “Now you’re...

This past summer, President Bush favored government restraint as troubles grew in the nation’s housing market.Now, with top Wall Street banks losing billions of dollars in investments tied to home loans, executives losing their jobs and...

We have often heard of people freezing dead laptop battery and then charging it, I had always been skeptical as to how they did it until I came across this video at Metacafe. A dead laptop battery can be revived after freezing it for 14 to...