Despite having less than half the population of the United States, Japan is second only to China in the amount of cigarette tobacco smoked... and thats your...

Egyptians seem to be enjoying democracy more than Americans have for a long time.

Most people thinking of Redis, think of it is an in-memory datastore. This is totally true. However, there is a lot of misconception with the “in memory” part as being if my redis server crashes I lose all of my data. This part is most definitely not...

2011 is the year that much of my thinking and perspective on cloud computing, particularly infrastructure clouds (aka “IaaS”) hardened.

Does California need the high-speed rail project? The New York Times published six opinion pieces debating the merits of the $90 billion high-speed rail plan that would connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. Streetsblog has a summary of the six opinio...

The seven biggest economic lies with Robert Reich.

American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. The United States has also id...

After 16 undistinguished terms in Congress, blunt and br***y Jack Murtha is moving close to command over U.S. policy on Iraq.

Campaign life on the road can be grueling, but at least candidates can rely on comfort food along the way POWER PLAY: Worst is Yet to ComeAttacks Follow Candidates on StageHAPPENING NOW: Live Chat

Company calculates compensation for Costa Concordia survivors — but not for the injured and deadVIDEO: Cruise p***engers get compensated Photos Show Evacuation of Cruise

Conn. home invasion killer is formally sentenced, will join accomplice on death row

Paroled burglar and accomplice killed a woman and her daughters during a night of terror in suburban Conn. home

Arizona governor releases the handwritten letter she gave to the president in their contentious tarmac meeting

Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, will be given a lethal injection for his role in a 2007 home invasion that killed a woman and her two daughters.

Republican presidential hopefuls today head into the homestretch of the critical Florida primary campaign after a fractious debate. FULL STORY

Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul bankrolling Newt Gingrich’s super PAC isn’t trying to “buy” a presidency, his top political consultant tells NBC News.

At least 384 children have been killed during Syrias 10-month uprising and virtually the same number have been jailed, according to the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF).

The Chicago social service organization founded more than 120 years ago by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams is filing for bankruptcy and closing.

Authorities say one of three siblings who were part of a crime spree and nationwide manhunt planned to escape from a Colorado jail.

ABC NewsSecond Conn. home invasion killer is sentenced to deathmsnbc.comBy NBC News and news services AP file NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Connecticut man was sentenced Friday to die for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in thei...

Moneycontrol.comWhite House Pushes Payroll Tax Cut as GDP Growth Rate SlowsBloombergThe White House called anew for p***age of a payroll tax cut extension after the government reported less than expected growth in the economy in the fourth quarter of...

AP - Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed more than 50 people as forces loyal to President Bashar ***ad shelled residential buildings, fired on crowds and left bleeding corpses in the streets in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said...

AP - Mitt Romney, forced to prove his resilience after a stinging loss in South Carolina, is showing why the so-called Republican establishment thinks he has the best discipline, organization and campaign smarts to challenge President Barack Obama th...

: The era of the megaship didnt sink with the Titanic in fact, it was just picking up steam. Shipbuilders have been engaged in a battle for size supremacy for more than a century. And in September, Royal Caribbean took delivery on the next biggest th...

1675: Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫  in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation thats still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher who readily crossed the lines between academic discipline...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes ReDigi has fired back, opposing Capitol Recordss motion for a preliminary injunction. In his opposition declaration, ReDigis CTO Larry Rudolph explains in detail (PDF) how the technology employed by ReDigis used digital mu...

chrb writes Asim Kauser, a 25-year-old British man, has been jailed for two years and three months for downloading recipes on how to make bombs and the toxin ricin. Police discovered the materials on a USB stick Asims father gave to them following a ...

Because half the time nothing on this ******** site works. I submitted this yesterday and the database got all ****ed up somehow. So once again, here.

Extra footage released from first gulf war coverage supposedly from outside a Saudi Arabian hotel, appears to be filmed inside a sound stage.