Do you or your kids play FarmVille, Mafia Wars or Restaurant City? Then you may well have some unpleasant surprises on your cell-phone bill

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She is the star of the Obama Cabinet and an international celebrity and after nine months of staying out of the limelight, Hillary Clinton has arrived on the global stage. An intimate portrait of the diplomat and her world

One year ago, Barack Obama was elected on a message most succinctly defined by a single word: change. But while a week can be a lifetime in politics, 52 weeks, it turns out, don't guarantee...

Photographer Jim Naughten immortalizes the men and women who gather annually to transform themselves into characters from the First and Second World Wars Photographs from the book Re-enactors by Jim

It's one thing to DVR your favorite show or the big game when you're stuck late at work, but what if you won't be going home later that night, or even that week? When travel takes us far, whether for...

All around the world, super athletes test the limits of endurance

After his acclaimed portrayal of a drug-addict in director Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, the British actor became a Hollywood star, playing a young Obi-wan Kenobi in three Star Wars movies.

The scariest part of Halloween can be reports of poisoned candy and apple-laden razor blades. But the real threat may be car accidents

In 1883, the U.S. and Canada adopted a standard time system, and the rest, as they say, is history

He got his first skateboard at 8 years old, and was competing as a professional by the age of 14. Nicknamed the “Birdman” for his vertical feats, the skating star won three national titles by the time he was 18 and continued competing into his 30s, before retiring in 1999.

The giant financial institutions that make up Wall Street have been bailed out, thanks to trillions of dollars of our money, and are on track to hand out record-breaking multibillion-dollar bonuses while millions of regular folks are hurting