The board of the United States’ second-largest school district has voted unanimously to extend the ban on carbonated soft drinks to all its schools in an effort to combat childhood obesity.
In small-town California, a handful of passionate people like Dennis Borba give the dramatic clash between man and beast life in the US.
One-year-old Guatemalan twins joined at the head were separated n a marathon operation, but one sister was returned to surgery a few hours later because of bleeding on her brain.
Ray Brown, a jazz bassist who played with giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and his one-time wife Ella Fitzgerald has died. He was 75.
A stinging movie satire of America’s gun culture is cleaning up at the US box office just as an army of law enforcement officials battles to halt a sniper in the country’s capital in his tracks.
Bill Gates introduced Microsoft’s newest multimedia software in Hollywood, promoting his company’s bid to make its technology central to tomorrow’s digital home entertainment centre.
Keith Uncapher, a computer pioneer at the University of Southern California who was a key player in the development of the Internet, died of a heart attack, the university announced. He was 80.
Sony Music Entertainment and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group will launch an upgraded online music subscription service on Thursday.
From 600 000-dollar diamonds to the gold dental bridge of someone’s dead grandmother, down-at-heel Hollywood stars are hocking their most precious heirlooms to pay for their face lifts or divorces.
Hollywood movie mogul Steven Spielberg has won a restraining order after a close encounter with an alleged stalker who claimed that the director planted a mind-control device in her brain.
An Egyptian immigrant armed with guns and a knife opened fire on Thursday at the Los Angeles International Airport ticket counter of Israeli airline El Al, killing two people before an airline security guard shot him dead.
A new study has found that the death toll from crashes caused by drivers talking on cell phones appears to have risen markedly in recent years.
The Aids Healthcare Foundation has filed a lawsuit against Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline, charging the drugmaker with antitrust violations and overcharging for its medicines.
Athena DeLima placed a bouquet of roses amid an array of other floral arrangements, then leaned over and kissed the bronze name plate on Marilyn Monroe’s crypt.
Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon, is being investigated by police for allegedly punching a man who claimed that the whole lunar landing programme was nothing but an elaborate
hoax.