Georgia-Pacific to buy Buckeye Technologies
Georgia-Pacific said Wednesday that it reached a deal to buy Buckeye Technologies Inc. for about $1.46 billion. The privately held Atlanta-based ...

BBC plans 'Tweet of the Day,' radio for birds
Remember when tweeting was for the birds? The BBC is hoping to revive that simpler time with "Tweet of the Day" — an early-morning radio program ...
Reporter at Murdoch's The Sun charged over bribery
A senior reporter at Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper is being charged with conspiring to pay 23,000 pounds (roughly $35,000) in bribes in return ...
CERN scientists find asymmetry in particle decay
Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher have found further reasons for the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe. A team working with ...

South Africa: fight over rhino poaching escalates
A U.S. firm recently gave smart phones to some game rangers in South Africa to help them track poachers who kill rhinos for their horns.

30 years later, nation remains at educational risk
U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren't adept at new technology. America's economy will suffer if schools ...

Australian charged with hacking government site
Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing ...
Group calls on China to improve Internet security
An American business group appealed to China on Wednesday to improve online security and ease restrictions on Web use by companies, warning that ...

Chicago-area teen latest snared in website traps
It had the trappings of an actual extremist website: Photos of gun-toting fighters and a flowery exhortation to, "Come and join your lion brothers ...

US immigration bill could slow Indian outsourcers
Low cost efficiency put India's outsourcing companies at the heart of global business and created a multibillion dollar industry that for years has ...

More rain expected for swollen Midwest rivers
More rain on Tuesday was the last thing flood fighters across the Midwest wanted to see, adding more water to swollen rivers now expected to remain ...
Gun control fight spills over to federal research
Washington's fight over firearms restrictions isn't limited to Congress. It's also taking place in the halls of science — literally — where gun ...

US seeks voluntary limits on car touch screens
The government is asking automakers to put stronger limits on drivers' interaction with in-car touch screens in an effort to curb distracted driving.

Lawyer: Inspectors clear NM horse slaughterhouse
About 5 miles from this southeastern New Mexico town's famed UFO museum, tucked between dairy farms, is a nondescript metal building that could be ...

Obama salutes national teacher of the year
President Barack Obama honored finalists Tuesday for the 2013 National Teacher of the Year award and saluted the winner, a Washington state teacher ...
UN official hopeful about 2015 climate talks
Governments are more serious and the impact of climate change is more dramatic, improving chances of a groundbreaking global warming pact in 2015 in ...
RIM expects keyboard BlackBerry in US in late May
The maker of the BlackBerry expects a new version of the phone with a physical keyboard will be available in the U.S. by the end of May. Research In ...
Appeals court upholds EPA block on W.Va. mine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia's largest ...

Photographer's loss offers hope for Boston wounded
In the first horrific moments after the Boston bombing, with smoke still billowing around the wounded, I know what is going through the minds of the ...

Laura Bush helped influence Texas-themed library
Laura Bush wanted to make sure her husband's presidential center reflected their Texas roots, and it does — right down to the building's limestone ...

Limping al-Qaida offshoot rearms with Twitter
Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign ...

Tax-free Internet shopping jeopardized by bill
Tax-free shopping on the Internet could be in jeopardy under a bill making its way through the Senate. The bill would empower states to require online ...

Atlanta schools work to help kids left behind
Long after the school day ends, nearly half the students enrolled at Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta spend an extra four hours in class looking ...
Reuters editor charged with hacking: I was fired
A Reuters deputy social media editor accused of conspiring with hackers to deface a Los Angeles Times story said Monday he had been fired.