The chairmen of Taiwan’s two leading flat-panel display companies met China’s major television makers Friday to seek orders to help them get through the global economic downturn, officials and local media reported.

A veteran state trooper and a civilian were electrocuted while fixing a flat tire on an antique fire truck when the truck’s ladder touched a high-voltage power line, police said.

New York State Police say a trooper and another man were fatally electrocuted when a ladder touched a high-voltage power line as they tried to fix a flat tire on an antique fire truck.

Flat growths on the colon wall are more common in Americans than previously thought and more likely to be cancerous than the more familiar knobby masses known as polyps, a new study finds.New techniques can locate and remove the flat growths, but many...

Japanese electronics giants Matsushita, Hitachi and Canon are mulling an alliance to jointly produce next-generation flat panel displays, news reports said Wednesday.Under the deal, Canon Inc. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. would invest in a...