(03-24) 20:16 PDT HONG KONG, China (AP) -- Hong Kong's elite voted Sunday for the city's next leader following a tumultuous, bitter race that highlighted public discontent in the southern Chinese financial hub. Hong...

(03-24) 19:16 PDT TORONTO, Canada (AP) -- Canada's opposition New Democratic Party elected Thomas Mulcair as their leader Saturday, months after the country mourned the loss of their previous chief to cancer. The NDP, a...

(03-24) 19:10 PDT CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Cuba late Saturday to begin radiation therapy on Sunday, one month after undergoing surgery that removed a cancerous tumor. He will...

(03-24) 13:18 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- When Irma Gorrocino enrolled in college , gas was selling for about $2.50 a gallon and commuting to a campus 30 miles from her Southern California home didn't seem like such a...

(03-24) 12:26 PDT San Francisco (AP) -- Federal securities regulators are asking a federal court to order Wells Fargo & Co. to turn over documents in an investigation of the bank's sale of $60 billion in mortgage-backed...

(03-24) 11:13 PDT CHICAGO, (AP) -- Officials at drugmaker Merck & Co. say they will take more time to decide what to do about an experimental blood thinner that gave disappointing results in a second big study. The...

(03-24) 10:21 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Anyone worried about an erosion of America's global status might consider this modest fact: Facebook is the dominant social network in Mongolia. Along with its pervasive social media,...

(03-24) 09:54 PDT (AP) -- March Madness is all about the NFL this year. From Peyton Manning in Denver to Tim Tebow in New York. From Sean Payton getting suspended for New Orleans' bounty system to Saints players...

(03-24) 09:40 PDT Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- Few communities have started to think long term about how to plan and redesign services for aging baby boomers as they move out of the workforce and into retirement. Even more...

(03-24) 08:43 PDT Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) -- The father of a freshman in Florida A&M University's famed marching band emailed the school's president in 2007 after getting a series of panic-stricken phone calls. The son...

In February, Brea Holmes, an 18-year-old high school senior from Phoenix, was passing the time in her afternoon Spanish class by surreptitiously texting. "I know it's a bad thing to be texting during class," she says....

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Number of the day $227 million That's the value of the Zynga stake that CEO Mark Pincus is selling in a secondary stock offering. The San Francisco company, which dominates the market for social-networking games ("...

Number of the day 250,000 That's how many people tune in to the Oprah Winfrey Network on a typical night, according to Horizon Media. Compare that with the 12.6 million viewers who watched Winfrey's ABC-produced talk...

When Oprah Winfrey had a talk show on ABC, she could do no wrong. The queen of afternoon television hosted Hollywood's biggest stars. She famously gave away Pontiacs to her studio audience in 2004. "Everybody gets a car!...

The former owner of one of the nation's largest tomato processors pleaded guilty Friday to running the company as a racketeering enterprise that bribed purchasers, fixed prices and doctored lab tests of moldy tomato...

Matt Sornson wants to learn Ruby on Rails, a popular batch of software used to build Web pages. To do so more quickly, he straps a homemade device to his head and pumps up to 2 milliamps of electrical current -about 1/...

BANKING SEC seeks Wells documents The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal judge to force Wells Fargo to comply with subpoenas as the agency investigates the bank's sale of almost $60 billion in...

While 59 percent of parents surveyed said life probably exists on other planets, only 39 percent expect their kids will become millionaires and 26 percent think Social Security will be available in its present form when...