For meteor observers, the presence of an almost-full Moon cast a bright pall on this month's performance of the Geminid Meteor Shower, normally one of the best meteor displays of the year. But for a wild card, another very good meteor shower may be right around corner.
If 2008 was the year of the "smartphone," 2009 may be the year of the smarter consumer looking to save on phone costs by reducing service where they can, including in some cases, losing their land lines, using alternative wired line-options or moving to prepaid cell phones th …
Unemployment is soaring, consumer spending is shrinking and both the stock and housing markets are on track for one of their worst years on record. As 2008 comes to a close, the economic outlook for the coming year is pretty grim.
WILD monkeys that have over-run part of Puerto Rico for more than 30 years are being trapped and shot in an attempt to stop them spreading across the whole island.
WE ARE walking down Ferry Road in Edinburgh when a woman starts haranguing The Scotsman photographer. "What do you think you're doing – letting her walk along the road bumping into things. Can't you see she's blind?"
Of all the questions Barack Obama needs to ask right now, the most important should be addressed to the Secret Service: how the heck did Muntader al-Zaidi got his second shoe off?
The Federal Reserve as much as admitted last week that lowering the benchmark interest rate — even to zero — would not be powerful enough medicine to revive today's ailing economy.
Elsevier, a medical publisher, said Friday that it would investigate a senator's recent allegation that one of its journals published an article on hormone replacement therapy that was improperly ghostwritten by a drug company promoting the product.
Many mothers who breast-feed have been alarmed and perplexed by reports regarding toxins discovered in breast milk. But a review of data from several studies has found that the benefits of breast-feeding far outweigh these potential risks.
People with more lean muscle mass may have an advantage when it comes to fighting cancer, new research suggests.
With 2008 drawing to a brutal close on the media beat — bankruptcies, daily newspapers that are no longer daily, magazines that are downsizing into brochures — a little ray of light appeared in my e-mail inbox. It was from a newspaper owner, of all people.
A growing number of employers, hoping to avoid or limit layoffs, are introducing four-day workweeks, unpaid vacations and voluntary or enforced furloughs, along with wage freezes, pension cuts and flexible work schedules.
TOKYO — Toyota Motor, the Japanese auto giant, announced Monday that it expected the first loss in 70 years in its core vehicle-making business, underscoring how the economic crisis is spreading across the global auto industry.
Until last week, the most important and most famous man of the cloth with whom Barack Obama was associated was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his longtime pastor from Chicago's South Side.
I have spent the last few weeks talking to economists who are plugged into the policy establishments in both parties, to politicians, and to policy-makers in the think tank community. There is broad agreement on several important points.
On April 21, 2008, the day before Pennsylvania's Democratic primary, Barack Obama sat at the counter of the Glider Diner in Scranton. Senator Bob Casey Jr., who had endorsed Obama and was traveling with him throughout the state, occupied the next stool.
Except for the distraction (or worse) caused by the Blagojevich scandal, President-elect Barack Obama has had a wonderful transition. His cabinet picks have been widely praised. His press conferences have been short, orderly, and mostly sweet.
With a record amount of commercial real-estate debt coming due, some of the country's biggest property developers have become the latest to go hat-in-hand to the government for assistance.
When technology consultant Jon Billig saw his business-travel costs rise several months ago, he asked Bank of America to raise the credit limit on his Visa card from $6,000 to $12,000. No way, the company said.
For more than 30 years the entrepreneurship-venture capital-IPO cycle centered in Silicon Valley has generated new wealth, commercialized innovation, and created new companies and industries. It's also spun off millions of new jobs.
Conservative talk radio has worked itself into a tizzy lately over the rumored revival of the Fairness Doctrine -- the FCC policy that sought to enforce balanced discussion on the nation's airwaves.
Pin-up girl Bettie Page — sex symbol of an older, weirder America — has died.
We don't yet know where President-Elect Barack Obama stands on international trade, but the early signs are troubling. In the election, his rhetoric was as protectionist as that of any serious presidential candidate in recent history.
VAIL, Colo. — A single-day lift ticket at Vail and Beaver Creek will top out at $97 in the coming week, making it the most expensive ticket in the country. The highest price for a Vail ticket at the window last season was $92.
ASPEN — Aspen kept its snowfall streak alive — just barely — on Sunday and, with a winter storm warning in effect starting Monday morning, the snow should keep on coming.