SUNNYVALE, Calif. - In its latest acquisition of a social networking service, Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. on Friday devoured del.icio.us Inc., a startup that enables people to more easily compile and share their favorite content on the Web.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company didn't disclose how much it paid for New York-based del.icio.us because the purchase price wasn't large enoug...

Cindy Langdon spent the weekend in bed. She felt nauseous, and the words tumbling out of her mouth had nothing to do with what she was trying to say. It was frightening. And before this Memorial Day weekend was over, her son took her to the hospital.

Langdon, a healthy, active woman of 51, had had a stroke. And like many people who suffer strokes, her life since that weekend in May 2002 h...

The Pentagon never told Congress about more than 20,000 hospitalizations involving troops who'd taken the anthrax vaccine, despite repeated promises that such cases would be publicly disclosed.

Instead, a parade of generals and Defense Department officials told Congress and the public that fewer than 100 people were hospitalized or became seriously ill after receiving the shot from 1998 ...

Do you remember the old days when time was slow? You had to walk to a payphone, slice your own bread, open your own can of beans - hell, you even had to cook your own beans. I don't, but you get the point.

At some stage we realised that technology could be used to save time, and on that premise the agenda was pushed forward into the booming industry we have today. Years on, did it delive...

Woods played gracious host by missing a slew of putts and having to hit one shot left-handed from under tree on his way to a par 72. Woods thought scores would be higher than usual because the rough is so thick.

Clarke has been having a rough time off the course. His wife, Heather, has been battling cancer for the past three years and is in London going through chemotherapy again. Clarke...

BANGKOK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Thai boy has become the 70th Asian to die of bird flu, authorities said on Friday, as reports warned a flu pandemic could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars as well as millions of lives.

China also reported a new case of H5N1, the fifth person in the country known to have been infected with the deadly virus. The 31-year-old woman, who li...

Weighing the pressing need for affordable housing over its otherplanning principles, the Martha's Vineyard Commission early thismorning approved with heavy conditions an unusual 11-unit subdivision inthe rural outposts of Edgartown.

"This is really a referendum on us as a community. If wecan't find a way to provide homes for our working-class residents,then we fail," said commissioner C...

Brewster said he forwarded Bauer's messages to the rest of the council, but so far there hasn't been much interest.

"I don't think there's any desire at all," Brewster said Thursday. "Personally, I would have been surprised if there had been, but you never know."

On Wednesday, Bauer sent Brewster another e-mail, and even included a proposed employment contract that spells out th...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The filmmaking Farrellys, known for their gleeful bad taste in irreverent comedies such as "There's Something About Mary," are taking on the Special Olympics. Johnny Knoxville of "Jackass" fame is the star.

"The Ringer" sounds like a politically incorrect disaster — but the Special Olympics couldn't be happier.

Knoxville plays a mild-mannered workada...

It was a happy homecoming for three members of the national guard.

After spending more than a year in Iraq, Thomas Scott, Matt Jaqua and Chris Roberts flew into Sawyer to a welcome from family, friends, and members of their unit. As a part of the 1075th Maintenance Company out of Marquette, their mission in Iraq included repairing vehicles and weapons systems plus convoy security.

T...