A major voting machine maker has cautioned its customers in 34 states to look out for a programming error that may cause votes to be dropped.

A FREAKY feline with four ears named after a Star Wars character is so rare its owners have to keep it indoors to stop it from being catnapped.

Prosecutors reviewing the death of a New York City woman who died in police custody at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport last year said Thursday that they have...

Days after he cracked that being rich in the U.S. meant earning at least $5 million a year, Republican presidential candidate John McCain acknowledged that he...

US chemists have identified the odour that emanates from skin cancer, a development that researchers hope will advance diagnosis and treatment of the deadly disease,...

Residents of a rural Colorado town said a cow named Apple chased off a bear that had climbed into her favorite apple tree.

Apple has admitted that a battery fault had led to a small number of its first generation iPod Nanos overheating.

Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will...

A 33-year-old man who authorities say wore a “World’s Greatest Dad” T-shirt to have sex with what he believed was a 14-year-old girl has been...

Authorities say a threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to a John McCain campaign office in the Denver suburb of Centennial, and a similar...

They had no water, hardly any air and no way out.

Search and rescue crews are trying to dig out two teenagers trapped in a collapsed snow cave near a mountain summit east of Seattle.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

It’s Love, Angel, Music, Baby for Gwen Stefani, who’s given birth to her second child, a boy.

A congressional committee on Thursday asked for an investigation into a counterterrorism database software upgrade that it says is months behind schedule, millions over...

Military leaders have suspended some activities at biological research laboratories to review safety rules for some of the world’s deadliest germs and toxins,...

Max Robson, 22, constructed a prototype using rubbish collected from skips, tips and bins including an old bike frame and wheel bearings, the magneto from a Vespa, a...

A federal judge delayed the planned execution of an inmate Thursday pending an evaluation to determine if the inmate is able to understand why he is to be put to...

Dogs have become more intelligent, and even learnt a sense of right and wrong, through spending time with humans, a study shows.

Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.