Doctors in Shanghai on Tuesday were considering surgery options for a 2-month-old boy born with an unusually well-formed third arm. Neither of the boy's two left arms is fully functional and tests hav...

The US dollar weakened further today as the market continued to be rattled by a report speculating that a possible replacement for US Treasury Secretary John Snow could favor a weaker greenback, deale...

Scand released version 1.3 of dhtmlxTree, the most versatile JavaScript component for creating feature rich hierarchical trees. dhtmlxTree v1.3 incorporates robust performance and fashionable way of a...

Her career was built around her blonde good looks. Now TV presenter Gail Porter has made a moving documentary explaining how she's come to terms with baldness and the loss of all her body hair. Angela...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association urged the government Saturday to take action against a sherpa who reportedly stripped on top of Mount Everest....

Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to s...

Most currency watchers think that any dollar rally is likely to prove temporary, given the market's mounting concerns over the US current account deficit, which stands at around 6 pct of GDP, and expe...

China's net international investment position (IIP) more than doubled last year, largely as a result of its fast-growing economy and an improved international clearing capacity....

Rivers of air that move both storms and airplanes around the planet have been creeping poleward over the past 26 years. The migration of these so-called "jet streams" has widened the planet's tropical...

RESOLUTE, Nunavut — Bob Hudson says he has played in the Rose Bowl, jumped out of airplanes, scuba dived off Fiji and stalked bighorn sheep in the Rockies. But for all the excitement of his 67 years,...