Excavating lost Mayan ruins or traveling to space are normally the stuff of adventure novels. But for Facebook employees, these and other lavish dreams are moving closer to reality as the world's No. 1 online social network prepares for a blockbuster IPO.
A strong magnitude-6.5 earthquake rocked Mexico Saturday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake is believed to have killed at least two people, Reuters reported.
A powerful magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, knocking out lights in parts of the capital and sending people rushing into the streets.
De la Cruz, who was also known as Don Trino, was the leader of the Nahua indigenous people.
As people continue to migrate away from rural areas and into cities, cities that are growing to devour the land around it, the numbers of people living in slums, shanty towns and informal settlements are skyrocketing.
Pope Benedict XVI will visit Communist Cuba this spring, a senior Roman Catholic Church official said Thursday.
American paleontologists have unearthed in New Mexico fossil bones of North America’s largest-known dinosaur, which lived about 69 million years ago.
Traveling to space or embarking on an expedition to excavate lost Mayan ruins are normally the stuff of adventure novels.
A sliver of mineral deposits left over from ancient water flows has been discovered on Mars by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, researchers said Dec. 7. The bright vein of mineral appears to be gypsum and is about an inch wide by 18-inches long.
Teen sensations Justin Bieber and his girlfriend Selena Gomez jetted to Mexico this week for a secret wedding. Gomez sparked rumors earlier that the two were engaged when she was seen wearing a ring on her engagement finger.
The United States and Canada have agreed to speed up food and other cargo shipments across their border and to sync some regulations related to drugs and cars, U.S. and Canadian officials said on Wednesday.
An elusive bumblebee that was last seen in the United States in 1956 was recently rediscovered in New Mexico. Scientists announced Monday that the bee, known as the Cockerell's bumblebee, was rediscovered in the White Mountains of south-central New Mexico by a team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside
Research In Motion has unceremoniously dumped the BBX brand name it had chosen two months ago for its new BlackBerry operating system after a U.S. court embarrassed the beleaguered smartphone maker by slapping a temporary ban on its use.
Presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto couldn't give the title of any books he likes... while speaking at a book fair.
In late September Interpol issued a ‘red notice’ for Saadi.
The BCS bowl game schedule has been released and led to what will likely be weeks of arguments about the national championship game rematch and other apparent mishaps.
Employees in fast-growing economies have more freedom over the technology they use for work than their counterparts in developed countries, and are more likely to see corporate provision of devices as a perk, according to a study.
On Tuesday the Obama administration said it will use foreign aid to promote and protect LGBT rights around the world.
The woman living in a $1.2 million Lake Washington home in Seattle, Wash., and receiving welfare is being sued alongside her husband by federal authorities for collecting welfare benefits and food stamps while living in the lavish lakefront home.
A woman from Seattle, Washington, who is a welfare recipient, has been garnering much attention lately, but for an odd reason. She happens to live in a waterfront house on Lake Washington worth approximately $1.2 million dollars and has been living in that same house since 2003.
Petroleum major BP has accused Halliburton Energy Services Inc., the U.S. and Dubai-based oilfield services corporation, of intentionally destroying crucial evidence related to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
The BCS released its bowl game selections on Sunday night and within hours Las Vegas casinos have released the betting lines on all 35 games.