Tomorrow the Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to touch down on Earth after a successful seven-day mission to deliver vital equipment to the International Space Station.

The conventional wisdom is that the most stupendous bargains of the year are to be had on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

TAYLOR DISHER, a 22-year-old marketing student in Toronto, recently found a useful way to shorten her beauty routine. Rather than try on sticky layers of lip gloss in a drugstore aisle..

We all know we should probably eat more healthily, take more exercise and cut back on alcohol, but unless there’s something obviously wrong, most of us blithely carry on.

Colourful, swirling clouds of cosmic dust interspersed with glowing star clusters are revealed in this extraordinary image of the Milky Way.

The state faces a water crisis and population boom, but radioactive waste from the Nevada Test Site has polluted aquifers.

Raw garlic may not be most people's idea of a tasty snack, but details have emerged of Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan's unlikely fondness for munching on the herb.

Human suspicion of realistic robots and avatars may have earlier origins than previously thought.

For decades, the Walt Disney Company has largely kept Mickey Mouse frozen under glass, fearful that even the tiniest tinkering might tarnish the brand and upend his $5 billion..

Brazil, Russia, India, and China, collectively known as the “BRIC” economies. Together, these four countries currently comprise 40% of the world’s population and 15% of GDP.

Governor-elect Christopher J. Christie of New Jersey, basking in praise from Republicans who hailed him as the party’s new star..

The lawsuit charges that Intel violated state and federal laws by abusing its dominant position in the chip market to keep its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, at bay.

Israel's navy has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian weapons intended for Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military has said.

NO face-lift stops time, so as aging continues, even a satisfied patient may choose to have another one a decade later.

Jared and Jerusha Hess' 'Gentlemen Broncos' treats all its characters like jokes, and they're unfunny jokes at that.

The Cincinnati Bearcats are neck-and-neck with Ohio State in the polls, their quarterback is a Heisman Trophy contender and they have surged into the national title conversation.

Pakistani police say two people have been killed in a gunfight at a federal building in the eastern city of Lahore.

On Tuesday, Cisco announced that it would pay $35 a share, or $2.9 billion, for Starent Networks, which makes products that help wireless telecommunications companies alolt.

When the playwright Rebecca Gilman began adapting the Carson McCullers novel “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” for the stage several years ago, she made a bold and controversial artistic leap:

The approved measures provide a variety of home loan protections for consumers, including a ban on so-called negative-amortization loans.

Though officially released less than 24 hours ago, Michael Jackson's first posthumous single, "This Is It," has turned out to not be so new after all.

A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world..

As more Afghan women obtain driver's licenses, they continue to face resistance from their male-dominated Muslim society.

The first fossil of the raven-size species was an immediate sensation when it was excavated in 1860.

Oxygen depletion that is killing sea life off Oregon and Washington is probably caused by evolving wind conditions from climate change, rather than pollution, one oceanographer warns.

President Obama told Congressional leaders on Tuesday that he would not substantially reduce American forces in Afghanistan or shift the mission to just hunting terrorists there..