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A homeless former radio announcer who became a YouTube sensation for his golden voice has been questioned by police after a disturbance at his Hollywood hotel.

Astronomers have discovered Kepler-10b, the smallest planet outside our solar system and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth but more hotter than molten iron.

The whole world is as excited as the Beckhams with the announcement of their new arrival and keeping fingers crossed for a girl

California’s governor Jerry Brown has unveiled a budget plan for the state which will cut welfare spending in half, reduce the state university’s systems coffers by 20 percent and slash healthcare coverage for the poor.

Top South Korean film director Park Chan-wook has shot an entire movie with iPhone.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Conexant Systems, Dot Hill Systems, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, SunPower, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, and Genzyme. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Strayer Education, Apollo Group, PDL BioPharma, Rovi, and Corinthian Colleges.

Three among the United States' premier universities find a place among the top 5 in University of Indonesia's Green Metric Ranking of World Universities for 2010

Walt Disney Co is in discussions on allowing content from some of its television networks to be available on sets embedded with Yahoo Inc's Internet-TV software, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

A celebrity gossip website on Friday posted a photo that it claims shows Inland Rep. Mary Bono Mack in a playful, but compromising position.

The gaming platform will be available directly on Vizio TVs.

Three people who were arrested by the federal agents last month in an operation seen as part of a widening probe into insider trading were granted bail on Tuesday.

While the House of Representatives is moving towards repealing the national healthcare reform law passed last year, residents of the nation’s largest state are facing another round of health insurance rate hikes.

The latest Sounscan numbers show that music sales continue their downward spiral with fewer artists touchning the platinum mark

A series of investigative articles in British Medical Journal conclusively prove that Dr Wakefield falsified data and there were irregularities and discrepancies in his study

The Mega Millions lottery announced the final winning numbers 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and 42 and the winners are from Idaho and Washington state, triggering a joke on the online that the shoe winners may be cursed now. The jackpot money of $355 million will be shared by two persons from Idaho and Washington state.

Intel has offered concessions in a bid to win European Union antitrust clearance for its $7.7 billion purchase of security software maker McAfee Inc.

U.S. metropolitan areas which have suffered the steepest drops in housing prices are poised to endure long-term deterioration similar to how certain cities in the Rust Belt were permanently damaged by the decline of manufacturing.

The number of people claiming unemployment benefits rose during the week ending Jan. 1, according to a report by the U.S. Labor Department.

While Microsoft slugs-it-out in the CES arena, Google won temporary relief in its cloud-war against Microsoft as it restricted the U.S. Interior department from handing a $59 million contract to Microsoft.

U.S. stocks hovered near break-even on Thursday as an uptick in jobless claims failed to dent sentiment following surprisingly strong data on private-sector jobs creation a day earlier.

Whether you're watching 2001, Lord of the Rings, Kill Bill, Toy Story 3, or countless other movies, you can watch them in their original aspect ratio and without black bars, the Irvine, California-based Vizio said. The 50 inch and 58 inch class sizes will be available later this year, and the company plans to showcase a 71-inch version too.