(IDG) -- Thanks to car PCs and Global Positioning System receivers in wireless phones and handhelds, location services soon will eagerly offer roadside assistance, traffic updates, and route planning ...

Venezuela is not seeking a military confrontation with the United States or any other regional actor, its Foreign Minister ...

That's why he weekly takes a 90-minute train ride to New York, where he walks the streets wearing a sandwich board that advertises his plight: The former toy-industry executive needs a job. "Almost ...

Revellers in Ireland are celebrating a belated St. Patrick's Day after it was postponed over foot-and-mouth fears. A three-day Saint Patrick's Day Festival was launched on Friday -- two months after ...

A second day of protest outside the Orient House in East Jerusalem ended in scuffles on Saturday between Palestinian demonstrators, their supporters and Israeli police. Israeli police arrested 12 ...

If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good.” Barbers are now an essential part of keeping sporting ...

A special court's Thursday ruling that no proven link exists between autism and certain early childhood vaccines seems to have done little to change the sometimes-passionate opinion fueling the debate ...

Kathleen Sebelius pledged swift action on the burgeoning U.S. health-care crisis during her Health and Human Services confirmation hearing Tuesday, arguing that "action is not a choice. It is a ...

A hearing resumed Wednesday for nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee where he is expected to sign a plea agreement that could set him free. "We now have a final plea agreement acceptable to both sides," Judge ...

One of two U.S. officials who made a rare trip to Myanmar said Thursday that the United States was willing to improve relations if that nation's ruling military junta takes tangible steps towards ...

Vilasrao Deshmukh, chief minister of the state of Maharashtra where Mumbai is located, said he would leave it up to his ruling Congress party to decide whether his resignation wou ...

On the morning of the 2007 shooting massacre that rocked the country, Virginia Tech officials had begun to lock down administrative buildings and some staffers even warned their families nearly 90 ...