The governing body of the Anglican Church in Britain voted Monday to approve the appointment of female bishops. The step appeared to risk...

The car bomb that ripped through the gates of the Indian Embassy on Monday, killing 41 people and scattering bodies across some of Kabul's...

Barack Obama and John McCain agree on this much: The economy is staggering under the Bush administration, and Americans are hurting. But who's to blame...

A few times a year, Bryson Garbett loads up his family and heads to a national park, often one in southern Utah. Part of the draw of a place...

Every Wednesday night, Bruce Johnson dutifully puts his garbage and recycling on the curb for pickup, and every week he fumes as small trucks...

All arriving late July? Punters looking to buy a Small, Cheap Computer are having to play a waiting game. Almost all of the most well known models won't appear until the end of the month.?

It was just a couple weeks ago that we (skeptically) noted that there were a bunch of companies trying to create systems to use things like a "FriendRank" to use "influence" to help advertise. However, it looks like those companies may have to deal with a bit of a patent block. Slashdot points out that Google has applied for a patent on just such a process to establish a sort of "FriendRank." Of course, the fact that there are a bunch of compa
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Memory cards aren't very exciting, but they are pretty important, so it's good news for mobile users that Sony has doubled the capacity of its Memory Stick Micro (M2) cards to 8GB. Sony claims the 8GB card will allow mobile device users to store over 5,000 fine quality five megapixel photos, over 2000 MP3 songs, or over 88 hours of high quality MPEG4 video...

Despite the fact that nearly three-quarters of people said that recycling makes a positive difference to the environment, almost the same number don't think about recycling their old mobile phones, with just three percent doing so. Mobile phone junk is an increasing problem as many people strive for the latest handsets, and as phone companies encourage their users to upgrade handset every year. Nokia's global study of 6,500 people in 13 countrie
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Five-year-old tells mother of seeing father drown after fishing boat sank.

Christie Brinkley tells divorce court she had everything she wanted until her husband's fling with a teenager.

slashdotmsiriv writes "This paper from Microsoft Research describes the issues and tradeoffs a typical garage innovator encounters when building low-cost, scalable Internet services. The paper is a more formal analysis of the problems encountered and solutions employed a few months back when Animoto, with its new Facebook app, had to scale by a factor of 10 in 3 days. In addition, the article offers an overview of the current state of utility com
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LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks, measured by MSCI, fell on Tuesday to their lowest level since October 2006, with the index dropping 20 percent below its all-time highs set in November last year.

NASHVILLE (Hollywood Reporter) - Only one guy has mounted a full tour of outdoor stadiums during this economically shaky summer, and that lone figure, Kenny Chesney, brought his show to about 45,000 fans at Nashville's NFL stadium Saturday.

Tangler, an online network of discussion forums, recently announced their new API. The Tangler service takes traditional discussion forums to a new level, by allowing anyone to easily set up a discussion forum that can grow to include hundreds of topics and thousands of users.

Follow your favorite celeb tots with the celebaby weekend roundup Celebrate chocolate day with Yum's Beer or Chocolate Quiz Bella quiz: Was she or wasn't she a beauty queen? Part II Do you know the "My Cell Phone Is Ringing" dance? Guess which celebrities wear their phones on their hip! Five common causes for late periods Would you want to see a sequel to The Good Shepherd? When YSL hosts a party, supermodels come What's the deal with the raw f
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After a weekend relaxing on the beach, Matthew McConaughey's girlfriend Camila Alves gave birth to their baby son in LA on Monday afternoon. His rep confirmed the great news and that the little guy weighed 7 lb., 4 oz., though we've yet to learn of a name for mini Matty. We can't wait to hear more about another new celebrity baby who shares a bday with Sunday Rose Kidman Urban! Congrats to the growing family and new parents! Source