Chaka Khan has criticized Clive Davis, the man who discovered and mentored singer Whitney Houston, for continuing to host his pre-Grammys party hours at the Beverly Hilton hotel in California hours after the singer died in a bathtub in the same hotel. I thought that was complete insanity, Chaka Khan said on Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday. And knowing Whitney, I don't believe she would've said, the show must go on. She's the kind of woman who would've said, 'Sto...
A Piranha bite-proof fish called the Arapaima may hold the secret to more flexible, tougher body armor because of its unique scales. The 300-pound Amazonian fish shares the same watery environment as the notorious Piranha, and when river levels dip in the dry season, they must share quite shallow stretches of the world's largest river. Scientists from the University of California, San Diego are working on a way to translate the strong, flexible scale technology into better human body armor.
Xi is slated to become the leader of China by 2013 (which would arguably make him the most powerful man in the world)
Whitney Houston's New Jersey mansion, the setting of her tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, is for sale, with an asking price of $1.75 million following the start's death last weekend.
Shares of Yahoo, the No. 2 search engine, fell about 7 percent after reports of problems in divesting Asian assets by new CEO Scott Thompson.
The iPad 3 will be the first Apple device to accommodate the high-speed Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, according to the Wall Street Journal. But if Apple releases its next iPad with LTE, it's a near-certainty that LTE will also come to the iPhone 5, which is set to release in June or July 2012.
President Barack Obama was characteristically reticent on the issue of gay marriage.
Get some! shouts a young man as he jumps out of an airplane circling the skies above Hollywood, Calif. The gentleman falling from the sky is a NAVY SEAL, and he's giving his best effort to raise attention given to the pseudo-propagandist film, Act of Valor, which hits theaters on Feb. 24. Act of Valor, a story about U.S. Navy Seals, is acted out by real NAVY SEALS, and accordingly, real NAVY SEALS parachuted into the premier Monday night.
Photos have emerged of the hotel bathtub where Whitney Houston's dead body was found, as well as one of her final meal accompanied by the alcohol that may have contributed to her death Saturday at the age of 48. All of the photos were released by TMZ.com.
Jeremy Lin is not only rallying New York City and the Knicks, but the 23-year old underdog's Linsanity is taking the nation by storm. However, sweeping trend, Linsanity, certainly has its detractors among other athletes.
In a YouTube video posted in Aug. 2010, Jeremy Lin, the NBA Knicks’ rising star, explores New York City for the first time and narrates the experience. In the short video, Lin comes across as the humble, intelligent and upbeat player that his New York fans have come to love over the last few weeks. However, the California-born player makes several prophetic comments while on camera during his first visit to New York with his home team, the Golden State Warriors.
Los Angeles detectives have turned their attention from the hotel where Whitney Houston died last weekend to the prescription drugs found in her room, according to reports.
Whitney Houston's family has been reeling since the superstar singer died unexpectedly on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif. Now, the family is making funeral service plans, which they hope to keep a private affair.
Newt Gingrich rebuffed calls for him to drop out of the Republican presidential race on Monday, saying he could still prevail in a tumultuous and unpredictable race.
Apple will reportedly unveil its next-generation iPad -- presumably called iPad 3 -- on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The report comes from iMore's Rene Ritchie, who also correctly predicted the name and release date of the iPhone 4S.
Just one day after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit northern California, two other earthquakes hit nearby early Valentine's Day: a 5.1-magnitude quake in northwest Mexico and a 3-magnitude earthquake in southern California.
One desperate student made a scarecrow, but it didn't scare any of the birds away.
Singer Dolly Parton is set to make a huge profit from Whitney Houston's death because she wrote one of Houston's biggest hits, I Will Always Love You. Whitney was living off of advances -- loans from the record company -- and had been [for] quite some time, an insider told the Huffington Post.
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the Northern California coast Monday afternoon, yielding no immediate injuries or damage but prompting warnings of several aftershocks throughout the week. The quake, which struck around 1:07 p.m., had its epicenter in a rural area near Weitchpec on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation.
Shares of Google are showing little reaction to approvals by both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission to its six-month pursuit of Motorola Mobility.
Paradoxically, Asian-Americans are both a privileged class and a disadvantaged one, too,
The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Monday were: Ultra Clean Holdings, Insight Enterprises, Perfect World, TripAdvisor, SunPower Corp and Education Management Corp. The top after-market NASDAQ losers Monday were: Seattle Genetics, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Smith & Wesson Holding, IPG Photonics, Imperial Sugar Co. and Fastenal Co.
