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Champagne, sparkling wine and chocolates are a favorite pairing to celebrate Valentine's Day, despite warnings from experts that the two do not go well together.

Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan welcomed their son Exton Elias into the world at 7:24 a.m. on Tuesday, reps have told Us Weekly. Neither Downey nor his wife Susan has explained why they have decided to name their child Exton Elias. Here are 14 other funny celebrity baby names.

Yahoo, No. 2 in search, shook up its board of directors a month after recruiting new CEO Scott Thompson from eBay’s PayPal unit.

Bahati’s bill may simply be a form of grandstanding since homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda, as it is in most African nations.

Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight about his improbably controversial Chrysler ad that aired on Sunday's Super Bowl.

Prop 8 just got glitter bombed, wrote Kathy Griffin.

The Ninth Circuit Court ruled in support of Judge Walker's decision that Prop 8 was unconstitutional, striking down the ban against same-sex marriage in California. But what does this mean for LGBT couples? What was Walker's original ruling? Who ruled in Tuesday's case? Here's everything you need to know, and what comes next.

The Sacramento, Calif.-based company reported net income of $42 million, or 49 cents a share, up about 184 percent from $14.8 million, or 17 cents a share, in the year earlier period. The company reported operating income of $90.3 million, up 6.4 percent compared to $84.9 million in the year earlier period.

Apple Inc. is in talks with Canada's two biggest telecom companies about becoming partners in the launch of iTV, a device combining features of the wildly popular iPad tablet with those of a television set, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest U.S. investors, the California State Teachers' Retirement System.

Symantec, the owner of Norton Anti-Virus and other security software brands, said someone claiming to be part of Anonymous attempted to extort $50,000 in return for not posting code.

The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner has ruled that Don Cornelius' death was a suicide.

As the nation's five largest mortgage lenders edge close to a $25 billion settlement over foreclosure abuses, it's becoming clear that the deal will have little or no impact on their future bottom lines.

For those who remember American Idol's fifth season, Katharine McPhee's opening number in Smash was a bit like déjà vu.

Dave Grohl has been a household name in the rock and roll community since the early 90s, but now it looks like the Foo Fighters front man is putting down his guitar, stepping away from the microphone, and shifting into a new entertainment medium: television.

The U.S. 9th Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco Tuesday upheld a lower court decision, which had declared unconstitutional California’s controversial Proposition 8 banning same sex marriage.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case that is likely to lead to a showdown on the issue in the Supreme Court.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday overturned Prop 8, the ballot measure that ended same-sex marriage in California five months after the state's Supreme Court allowed gays and lesbians to marry.

Electric car startup Fisker Automotive Inc said on Monday it has suspended work at its U.S. manufacturing plant and laid off 26 workers there while it renegotiates the terms of its $529 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight about his improbably controversial Chrysler ad that aired on Sunday's Super Bowl.

Lyme disease poses its greatest risk to those on the Northeastern U.S. coast, according to a new study, which hopes to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease.