A consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a groundbreaking €1.5 billion ($1.87 billion) radio telescope that will be the biggest and most sensitive instrument of its kind.
Christie's will tee off Wednesday in London with the sale of an impressive collection of golf memorabilia. The "Origins of Golf" sale includes 347 lots of vintage clubs, balls, medals, literature, photographs and art, bringing to life a ...
Charles Ward fell behind on his mortgage in September, just as his late wife began a losing battle with lung cancer and her medical costs soared.
Alec Baldwin's Jack Donaghy of the TV show 30 Rock once received "the cufflinks Reagan was buried in" as a birthday present, but a true-life example of celebrity collecting is even more bizarre.
Amid the other troubling stats for the Indiana Pacers as they head into Game 6 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against Miami on Thursday -- their 2832-point loss in Game 5; that Miami needs just one more win to move on to the ...
Privacy: The New York Times tells the tale of how Google Inc. escaped a full accounting for the gobs of personal information that were scooped up as cars photographed the world's streets. "It was one of the biggest violations of data ...
Nobody ran for president in 1988. No, we haven't forgotten George Bush and Michael Dukakis, or even Bob Dole, Al Gore, Ron Paul and the other also-rans. "The 'Nobody for President' campaign came to the White House" on Election Day, Reuters ...
A Minnesota health system that has come under scrutiny for its hiring of hospital contractor Accretive Health Inc. to handle billing and collections functions said its chief executive will leave at the end of July.
Philadelphia One of the longest and bitterest battles the art world has ever seen—the fight over the future of Philadelphia's storied Barnes Foundation collection—has, for now, anyway, come to an end with the opening of the superb new ...
Newspapers can't hold a candle to Facebook when it comes to collecting information about their users. But here is one assumption: Mark Zuckerberg is almost certainly richer, and probably shrewder, than you are. Spencer Jakab has details on ...
Azerbaijan's pride in hosting the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, which has the largest television audience of any non-sporting event in the world, reflects far more than a love of music. It signals my country's re-emergence into the ...