Shares of Apple are up slightly in pre-market trading Monday off a report the tech giant is exploring a streaming television partnership with cable titan Comcast. According to The Wall Street Journal, the potential streaming TV service would feature a set-top ...

Twitter is celebrating its eighth birthday with first-tweets.com, a new tool that lets you look up memorable first tweets. Here's what some of your favorite (and least favorite) stars said during their Twitter debuts. Loading… Post to Facebook. Celebs' #FirstTweets ...

Twitter is celebrating its eighth birthday with first-tweets.com, a new tool that lets you look up memorable first tweets. Here's what some of your favorite (and least favorite) stars said during their Twitter debuts. Loading… Post to Facebook. Celebs' #FirstTweets ...

An Indian court convicts four men of gang raping a photojournalist in Mumbai in 2013. Video provided by Reuters. Loading… Post to Facebook. Four men guilty of gang-raping photojournalist in Mumbai on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1g4tV3i. Incorrect ...

Google and Viacom settled a copyright lawsuit filed by the media giant related to content hosted on the video service YouTube. In a joint statement released Tuesday, both companies say they resolved a lawsuit filed by Viacom in 2007 over copyrighted ...

Well, now that we have some proof of the universe's explosive inflation after the Big Bang, what are some of the other "big" questions that still remain to be answered? What's left to discover about the cosmos? MORE: New discovery proving rapid expansion of ...

KIEV, Ukraine — People here were somewhat relieved Monday that the war that had been anticipated to blow up immediately following the referendum had not come. But a feeling of uncertainty and dread remained. It was just a few weeks ago that Ukrainians ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The search for a missing Malaysia jetliner expanded to two hemispheres Monday as investigators said they are now certain that the plane was deliberately diverted during its overnight flight and flew off-course for hours.

SAN FRANCISCO — The end of Microsoft's support for Windows XP is just three weeks away. Astonishingly, there are as many as 400 million or more PCs still running the operating system first launched by Microsoft in 2001. And, bizarre, but true: Its market ...

A chocolate vitamin? Scientists have developed a pill containing the nutrients in dark chocolate without the sugar and fat, and a big study is being launched to see if they can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. (March 17) Video provided by AP. Loading…

A fight between two food stall owners at a market in southern China on Friday left five people hacked to death and one person fatally shot by police. Authorities said the violence appeared to stem from a personal dispute. (March 14). Loading… Post to ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Police photographs of Oscar Pistorius standing on his blood-stained prosthetic legs and wearing shorts covered in blood, taken shortly after the athlete fatally shot his girlfriend, were shown to the court at his murder trial Friday.

Exactly 25 years after writing the first proposal for what would become the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wants a digital bill of rights to protect Internet users from surveillance. Berners-Lee, 58 and a British computer scientist, told the Guardian the Web ...

Might Flappy Bird make a return flight to mobile game stores? In an extensive interview with Rolling Stone, Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen says he is "considering" whether to relaunch his hit game on Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices, one month ...

The U.S. attorney's office in New York has opened a criminal probe into the circumstances surrounding the General Motors ignition switch recall, according to reports on Tuesday by Reuters and the Associated Press, citing sources who asked not to be ...

Lindsay Lohan let cameras follow her life after rehab for the docu-series 'Lindsay' on Oprah's OWN network. Loading… Post to Facebook. 'Lindsay' docu-series offers all access to Lohan on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1itmTaZ. Incorrect please try again.

ARMYANSK, Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine – Russian flags fly from businesses, car dashboards and official buildings throughout Crimea, where many ethnic Russians say they are not opposed to seceding from Ukraine and joining Russia. But the ...

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine -- Crimea's pro-Russia administration in Simferopol has announced a March 16 referendum on whether Crimea should become part of Russia. Critics fear the move is a pretext toward secession and the eventual annexation by the ...

Basically, Russian President Vladimir Putin has won. At least he believes he has and in a place like Ukraine, or any other part of Russia's "near abroad," that's all that matters. Let's count the ways. First, he has effectively taken full control of Crimea, which Putin ...

President Obama marked Ash Wednesday with a White House statement: "Today, Michelle and I join our fellow Christians in the United States and around the world in marking Ash Wednesday. "Lent is a season of reflection, repentance, and renewal — a ...