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The shadow of the moon started sweeping across the globe from Hong Kong to the Texas Panhandle as a rare annular solar eclipse began Monday morning in Asia.

NATO protests in Chicago have prompted hackers to launch a cyber attack on both the City of Chicago's website and the Chicago Police Department's website on Sunday, according to published reports.

Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell a part of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba.

About every two weeks, Rick Allen gets a series of thermal snapshots from high above Earth that show how water gets used across the western United States, a perennial source of friction in the largely arid region.

Workers check out the engines on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Saturday.

Nora Gill , Mr Niraj Khetan and Karen McAlpine with the new robotic arm. Surgeons performing keyhole surgery now have an extra pair of safe hands in theatre thanks to the arrival of a robotic 'arm'. The new A 17,000 Freehand Robotic Camera Controller enables surgeons at Mexborough Montagu Hospital to operate with a constantly high-quality picture ... (more)

A solar eclipse is expected to be visible across much of the western U.S. on Sunday evening.

Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.But Chinese regulators attached a big condition: That Google's Android operating system for mobile devices remain available to all at no cost for the next five years.The approval brings the ... (more)

When men in power become embroiled in scandal, their most faithful supporters are often their children, especially their daughters.

Thousands of people are planning viewing parties for the upcoming annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.

Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend and their requests for evidence and office supplies may be a sign that they are in for detailed discussions when they reconvene on... Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend and their requests for evidence and ... (more)

When SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket it will secretly be carrying celebrities.

Facebook is the hottest Internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004.

Delta Air Lines said a glitch that appeared to show different airfares to frequent fliers happened because it was trying out a new company to power flight searches on its website.

On Saturday, a private company was set to make history by launching a capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station.

'... or are you just glad to see me?' Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy star in 'Hysteria' True story: Physicians in the 19th century used to provide genital massage to their female patients to treat their "hysteria," a nervous condition that today we might recognize as a plethora of more modern afflictions such as depression and anxiety.

The Branch of the Paris police force known as the Child Protection Unit, or CPU, has a hard job day in and day out.

Scientists have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.