President Bush's visit to Beijing almost looks like a vacation — right down to a family reunion. But his three-nation Asian trip also takes him to the doorsteps of two troublesome regimes while forcing him to balance the Olympic spirit with the delicacies of diplomacy.

ATHENS, Greece - An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found.

PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

TOKYO - Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.

PITTSBURGH - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

WASHINGTON - Sometimes, I guess, timing is everything. When DaimlerChrysler AG announced in 2006 that it planned to bring the Smart fortwo micro car to the United States after nearly a decade in Europe, gas prices had reached about $2.80 a gallon. Now, Americans are paying more than $4 a gallon at t...

India's gullible media fell prey to a prank when they reported recently that a thief, arrested for attempting to sell off a stolen 18th century piano, has turned out to be a Nazi war criminal in hiding.

LONDON - The British Broadcasting Corp. will air a long lost Beatles interview featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney talking about the day they met and their songwriting partnership.

NEW YORK - Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club.

Food Crisis: A Challenge or an Opportunity?

BONN, Germany (AP) -- A tax on airline tickets, an auction of pollution rights, an international climate change bond: These are some of the ideas likely to be thrashed out at a 162-nation conference on raising the billions needed each year to fight global warming.

NEW YORK - The rising price of oil isn't just swelling Americans' energy bills — it's also holding back their stock portfolios.

NEW YORK - The Internet is routinely used when making buying decisions, but its influence is small compared with offline channels such as friends and sales personnel, a new study finds.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Military-ruled Myanmar, among the globe's poorest and most authoritarian nations, is reeling from a natural disaster of such magnitude that both the people's suffering and political aftershocks are certain to persist long after the last emergency aid has been doled out....

Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2...

NEW YORK - Caught in the maelstrom of higher gas and food prices, Americans — even more affluent ones — are seeking shelter in wholesale clubs and discount apparel chains.

ATHENS, Greece - The European Central Bank and the Bank of England are both expected to keep their interest rates unchanged Thursday, as more evidence mounts that growth in the euro zone and in Britain is likely to slow in coming months.

Some big pharmaceutical companies are up in arms about developing countries importing less expensive generic versions of drugs for which these companies hold a patent monopoly. But the procedure is perfectly legal, even under the World Trade Organization's pro-pharmaceutical-monopoly rules. The...

One of the things I often tell people is to remember what Tony Alessandro calls, the "Platinum Rule": Treat others the way they want to be treated. This rule applies to every transaction and every relationship you have—with your referral source, with your prospect, with your customer, with...