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With Apple's iPhone announcement just one day away, excitement is at a fever pitch. But what is truly known about Apple's mystery product? Here are the facts.

Tiger Woods will plummet to depths he has not reached in 15 years as he is projected to drop two spots to 51st in the world rankings to be issued Monday.

A man-made ozone hole has formed above the Arctic comparable in size to the ozone hole above Antarctica, researchers reported Monday.

Yahoo shares jumped more than 5percent Monday after the chairman of China’s Alibaba said he’s interested in buying it, and Yahoo announced a news alliance with ABC News.

All the attention is on Apple's up and coming iPhone 5, but the Android competitors surely have something to bring to the stage too.

After posting an $8.5 billion loss last fiscal year, the postal service is on a pace to go $10 billion in the hole in fiscal 2012.

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for their discoveries about the human immune system that forged the development of new treatments against infectious diseases and cancer.

Apple's Oct. 4 iPhone event is not only watched by the technology community, but also by Apple itself as it is likely to break the tradition of Steve Jobs taking the center stage to unveil a new iPhone.

Apple's CEO Tim Cook is expected to unveil the iPhone 5 at an event on Tuesday at the company's Cupertino, Calif. campus, and the phone's release date could likely be Oct. 14.

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to three researchers for their work related to the immune system.

The world's largest online business-to-business trading company, Alibaba, is thinking of taking over the troubled Internet firm Yahoo, its chairman says.

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have generated the largest and most realistic cosmological simulations of the evolving universe to-date that will help astrophysicists better understand the mysteries such as galaxy formation, dark matter and dark energy.

America has on its priority list to build its students' skills in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math, also known as STEM. But which schools are actually mastering teaching in these areas? The U.S. News & World Report for the first time released a list ranking math- and science-specific high schools.

Jason Bateman, star of Arrested Development, has confirmed there will be a fourth season of the series and a movie to be filmed next year.

The Book of Mormon debuted this year as a Broadway hit that won nine Tonys, and the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination features not one, but two candidates of the Mormon faith.

The single thing that makes cyclists so hated by non-cyclists is disrespect for others: the way in which a highly-visible minority of cyclists consider themselves above the law, and flout not only traffic rules but also the basic tenets of civility.

Michael Lewis says something very odd in his big piece on California and the phenomenon of overconsumption:

An opium-growing recluse wanted in connection with two murders in northern California was shot to death by police officers on Saturday, capping a five-week-long manhunt through dense, rugged woodlands.

California Governor Jerry Brown announced on Sunday that he signed a bill preventing local authorities from banning the practice of male circumcision.

After his first meeting ever with the Mother Monster herself last week, President Obama said Lady Gaga is intimidating during a speech at a LGBT advocacy gala.

California-based Manning Beef is recalling 80,000 pounds of beef products over possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.