Bruce Conner, an iconoclastic artist and avant-garde filmmaker of the Beat era who gained international admiration for his work, died on July 7.
Tree shrews that thrive on fermented nectar suck up amounts that would inebriate a human but seem to have no such ill-effects themselves.
A love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams on a subway train and tracking her down over the internet has failed to have a fairytale ending.
An earthquake struck just east of Los Angeles on Tuesday, rocking tall buildings and rattling nerves across Southern California.
Richard Branson beamed in to the Mojave desert on Monday to unveil a craft that will carry a passenger ship to 5 240m before releasing it into space.
Inspiration is a steam-powered car built in the United Kingdom and believed by its designers to be capable of smashing the oldest land-speed record.
The creators of a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook have been sued by Hasbro.
A group of former Google engineers on Monday launched a rival internet search engine, Cuil.
The reality is, there won’t be an Emmy host this year — there will be five.
Terminator Salvation won’t hit movie theatres until next year, but thousands of fans got an early look at a portion of the film on Saturday.
Sony is trying a new tack in the e-books market: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.
White House contender Barack Obama said on Monday the faltering United States economy was now in the grip of an ”emergency”.
People see in Barack Obama what they want to see, writes Gary Younge.
Osama bin Laden’s former driver has pleaded not guilty in a case that could determine the future of scores of terrorism cases in the United States.
Barack Obama will convene a panel of advisers on Monday as he shifts his focus from world affairs to the top issue for American voters — the economy.
It is a piece of investigative journalism that has set the New York literary world alight. It is a story of exhaustive researchc, scores of interviews
In the final days of training with her US Olympic teammates, Jessica Hardy was trying to nap when she got the most dreaded of phone calls.
One might think Michael Griffin has much to celebrate. His agency, Nasa, receives -billion a year and is buoyed up by strong public support.
Ohio sales manager Lucas Seltzer isn’t thrilled that Barack Obama is overseas talking to foreigners instead of at home speaking to Americans.
The head of Microsoft’s Windows and web operations is leaving the Seattle-based software empire.
Ford is hoping to persuade its American customers of the charms of modestly sized European vehicles such as the Fiesta, the Focus and the Transit van.
After Hurricane Dolly hit the US-Mexico coastline, widespread flooding along the Rio Grande Valley became the top concern on Thursday.
An interrogation video of Osama bin Laden’s driver showed Salim Hamdan denying under questioning in a dark cell that he worked for al-Qaeda.
Speaking at a Houston fundraiser last week, George Bush aired his considered opinion of the financial crisis facing the nation he leads.
Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of Yahoo!, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer.
Hurricane Dolly strengthened on Wednesday as it neared southern Texas, and was expected to lash low-lying areas on the US-Mexico border.
The new chief of US Track and Field has asked US President George Bush not to pardon or commute disgraced sprinter Marion Jones’s conviction.
Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who landed a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic Sophia on TV’s The Golden Girls, has died.
A Rhode Island man is arrested with a blood alcohol level of 0,491% — the highest recorded to date in the state for someone who wasn’t dead.
Hundreds of dilapidated stars on Hollywood’s ”Walk of Fame” are getting a much-needed, -million makeover ahead of the landmark’s 50th anniversary.
Hurricane Dolly churned over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday toward the United States-Mexican border, forcing thousands in Mexico to evacuate.
A British actor who took her battle against her millionaire husband to the internet has been ordered to leave her New York home by a judge.