Honda's profit for the fiscal fourth quarter zoomed to more than double the previous year's as the benefits of a weak yen added to strong sales.

    Tens of thousands of Asian carp are believed to have died in a 24-hour period in the Cumberland River below Lake Barkley, and state officials are investigating.Click to Continue »

    DURHAM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon is set to make a final decision on whether to become the first state in the nation to drop its problem-plagued online health exchange and link up with the federal website....

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Fahmy Abdel Raouf and his 13-year old son had been missing for months when their family got word they had been killed in a gun battle with security forces and hailed as "martyrs" by the most dangerous militant group in Egypt.

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As the spring storm season arrives in Tornado Alley, emergency officials are wrestling with a dilemma posed by man's best friends.

    It was a special night to honor some of Latin music's biggest names! The 2014 Billboard Latin Music Awards were held tonight at the BankUnited Center in Miami, and the show opened up...

    Tonight, Parks and Recreation blew us away with a series finale-worthy ending to a stellar season. Honestly, all other TV shows on the air, you could really learn a thing or two from this perfect...

    Apparently Seth Meyers has fans in high places. Besides Lorne Michaels, that is. Two months into his new gig as Jimmy Fallon's replacement on Late Night, Meyers has...

    Stars heated up the red carpet—literally—at the Bank United Center in Miami, Florida Thursday night for the 2014 Latin Billboard Music Awards. Let's start off with the...

    Welcome to Miami! The stars came in droves to the Bank United Center in Miami, Florida Thursday night to celebrate the 2014 Latin Billboard Music Awards. The industry's...

    BANGALORE (Reuters) - Growth in emerging Asian countries will be lackluster this year and contribute less to the global economy, despite signs of recovery in the region's major trading partners in the West, Reuters polls showed on Friday.

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday accused Washington of distorting an international agreement on Ukraine by making additional demands on Moscow.

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Fahmy Abdel Raouf and his 13-year old son had been missing for months when their family got word they had been killed in a gun battle with security forces and hailed as "martyrs" by the most dangerous militant group in Egypt.

    TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama wrapped up a state visit to Japan on Friday during which he assured America's ally that Washington would come to its defense, but failed to clinch a trade deal key his "pivot" to Asia and to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reforms.

    A new ranking of the competitiveness of the world's top 25 exporting countries says the United States is once again a "rising star" of global manufacturing thanks to falling domestic natural gas prices, rising worker productivity and a lack of upward wage pressure.

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diners could soon see calorie counts on the menus of chain restaurants....

    DURHAM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon is set to make a final decision on whether to become the first state in the nation to drop its problem-plagued online health exchange and link up with the federal website....

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon, once expected to be a national leader in the federal health care overhaul, on Thursday moved to become the first state to dump its troubled online health exchange and use the federal marketplace instead....

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An advisory panel has recommended that Oregon drop its trouble-plagued online health exchange for private policies and have Oregonians shop for them instead on the federal online marketplace....

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials are worried about recent U.S. measles outbreaks that so far have caused more illnesses than at the same point of any year since 1996....

    TOKYO (AP) — Honda's profit for the fiscal fourth quarter zoomed to more than double the previous year's as the benefits of a weak yen added to strong sales.

    CAIRO (AP) — Egypt will try to save half the money it spends on wheat subsidies by issuing a new smart card system to ensure that the cheap bread goes to only the neediest.

    Tens of thousands of Asian carp are believed to have died in a 24-hour period in the Cumberland River below Lake Barkley, and state officials are investigating.Click to Continue »

    Kentucky and Indiana transportation officials say a falcon box under the new Milton-Madison Bridge has some additional inhabitants — four peregrine falcon chicks that hatched this week.Click to Continue »

    Gov. Steve Beshear and first lady Jane Beshear are inviting visitors to downtown Frankfort for the annual Governor's Derby Celebration.Click to Continue »

    A reconstruction of Earth's earliest ocean in the laboratory reveals the spontaneous occurrence of the chemical reactions used by modern cells to synthesize many of the crucial organic molecules of metabolism.

    The chemical reactions behind the formation of common metabolites in modern organisms could have formed spontaneously in the earth's early oceans, questioning the events leading to the origin of life. Wellcome-Trust funded researchers reconstructed the chemical make-up of the earth's earliest ocean and found the spontaneous occurrence of reaction sequences which in modern organisms are essential for the synthesis of organic molecules critical for the cellular metabolism seen in all living organisms.

    NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network have uncovered evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors a large underground ocean of liquid water, furthering scientific interest in the moon as a potential home to extraterrestrial microbes.

    Many couples agree not to have children after only one discussion, and sometimes none at all.

    NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

    Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins is featured on a cover of TIME’s 2014 Most Influential People issue.

    Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan dominate down under in Game 3, silencing Golden State's raucous crowd and leaving the Warriors without an answer. Recap all of Thursday's action here.

    ATLANTA (AP) — The Indiana Pacers are questioning their toughness and dealing with speculation about a lineup change.

    MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Michael Phelps is going short, really short, in the second event of his comeback.

    AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Ben Martin made his way through most of the TPC Louisiana course with the type of sparse gallery one would expect for a player who had missed seven cuts in his previous nine starts on the PGA Tour.

    BEIJING (AP) -- Sina.com says it has temporarily closed its literature site after the Chinese web giant was alleged to be hosting pornography....

    Everyone’s favorite virtual pin-board wants to introduce you to more than just decorated mason jars, apartment envy, and wedding inspiration. Pinterest launched Guided Search on Thursday, a new mobile-first tool that taps into Pinterest’s massive user collection to bring the things you’re really looking for right to the forefront.“Guided Search helps you find things when you didn’t know how to ask the question in the first place,” Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann said during a launch event at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. And with more than 750 million boards containing more than 30 billion pins, we’re going to need all the help we can get to weed through the whimsical noise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    If the Rufus Cuff smartwatch is anything to go by, some people want a lot of hardware on their wrists.The crowdfunded watch is truly massive: 8 centimeters wide, with a 3-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, GPS and other features that make it seem like a smartphone strapped to your arm. The US$279 behemoth might look unwieldy to some, but backers love it. They’ve pledged over $230,000 to Rufus Cuff’s Indiegogo fundraising campaign, more than meeting its goal of $200,000.From grassroots campaigns to big manufacturers like Samsung, Sony and possibly Apple, smartwatches are starting to compete with traditional timepieces for wrist real-estate. The smartwatch industry was worth about $700 million in 2013 and is expected to reach $2.5 billion this year, according to Zurich-based research firm Smartwatch Group.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    A global Internet governance conference in Brazil concluded Thursday with a strong focus on countering surveillance, including asking for a review of the implications on privacy of existing practices and legislation.The meeting also spoke of the need for consensus among global stakeholders in the development of international Internet-related public polices and Internet governance arrangements.A large issue before Internet users, organizations and governments is planning the transition after the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration ends its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which expires in September next year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    The Silk Road, for all its clever uses of security protections like Tor and Bitcoin to protect the site's lucrative drug trade, still offered its enemies a single point of failure. When the FBI seized the server that hosted the market, the billion-dollar drug bazaar came crashing down. If one group of Bitcoin black market enthusiasts has their way, the next online free-trade zone could be a much more elusive target.

    New York University launched an investigation Thursday after students reported receiving fliers marked "eviction notice" from a pro-Palestinian group.

    It took just hours for Homeland Security Secretary Jeh (jay) Johnson to put the agency's former internal watchdog on leave after a Senate report concluded the employee was too cozy with senior Homeland Security Department officials.

    A conservation group and the Nez Perce Tribe have filed a lawsuit against three federal agencies seeking to stop a central Idaho gold-mine exploration project by a Canadian company.

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In conservative Mississippi, some business owners who support equal treatment for gays and lesbians are pushing back against a new law that bans government from limiting the free practice of religion.

    Officials say suicides across the military dropped by more than 15 percent last year but rose among Army National Guard and Reserve soldiers.

    Later this year, a ship the size of an aircraft carrier will arrive at Lithuania's port of Klaipeda on the Baltic Sea.

    VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) -- Later this year, a ship the size of an aircraft carrier will arrive at Lithuania's port of Klaipeda on the Baltic Sea. The 300-meter (984-foot) vessel is not a warship, but a floating natural gas import terminal - aptly named "Independence" - that will be key to the Baltic region's plan to reduce its reliance on Russia's energy supplies....

    Filipino officials say Muslim militants have brought a Chinese tourist and a Filipino hotel receptionist to their jungle stronghold in the southern Philippines after kidnapping the women from a dive resort in eastern Malaysia early this month.

    An airline official says a drunk passenger on a Virgin Australia flight who caused a hijack scare has been arrested for creating a disturbance after the plane landed on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.

    Swedish home appliance-maker Electrolux says the economic recovery in Europe helped the company's first-quarter net profit rise 19 percent to 431 million kronor ($66 million) from 361 million kronor.