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If you never thought a pie in the face was funny, you just didn't get Soupy Sales.

A US-based software firm specializing in “cloud computing” intends to double its local operations by adding 300 new seats to its Manila office over the next two years, an official said.

Two months ahead of the establishment of the China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) free trade area (CAFTA), the cooperation between China and the ten ASEAN countries has already shown signs of going much wider and deeper. Exchanges between China and ASEAN is expected to be expanded to more fields including finance and to be deepened in some traditional areas including agriculture, science and technology as more special conferences were held during the sixth annual trade an ...

The Indonesian government would permit the boat carrying hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Australia to come ashore in Western Java and would temporarily facilitate them for a humanitarian reason, Indonesian presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said in Jakarta Tuesday. The spokesman told a press conference after a meeting of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the State Palace that officials from Indonesia and Australia wou ...

Dr. Tina Strobos, who is being honored on Monday by a Jewish organization, hid more than 100 Jews in her rooming house in Amsterdam during the Holocaust.

AP - From karaoke to kickball, some things just don't work without a group of people. A startup wants to add one more to that list: Online bargain hunting.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says compulsory flu shots are an unconstitutional violation of workers’ rights.

The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States.

Thailand's weekly cabinet meeting agreed on Tuesday that the Internal Security Act (ISA) will be imposed in capital Bangkok from Oct. 15 to 25 to ensure peace and order amid the mass anti-government rallies. The ISA law will be imposed in Dusit district in the center of Bangkok, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said after the cabinet meeting. The United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) group or the red-shirted people plan to stage the mass rallies at the Royal ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- The Astros will interview 10 candidates over the next week to become the team's next manager, including former skipper Phil Garner.

The Motley Fool: One year ago, I concluded that Jim Cramer was a menace to investors.

AP - Her mansion in Iraq was bombed, her medical career and future in her beloved country dashed the day she found a white envelope on her car windshield. Inside was a single bullet. Wassan Yassin was marked for death.

A 1995 law designed to prevent frivolous lawsuits is preventing the details of the auction-rate securities debacle from emerging.

Actors playing Helen Keller’s classmates in tomorrow’s production of “The Miracle Worker’’ know firsthand how Keller communicated with her teacher, Anne Sullivan. These cast members are students at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown. Watertown Children’s Theatre produces this performance of the Roxbury Repertory Theatre production starring Elise Miwa as Helen Keller. At the 12:30 p.m. workshop, members ...

Liam Gallagher has broken his silence for the first time since brother Noel quit Oasis and admitted the band is “no longer”.

NBC said last spring it was bringing its Los Angeles police drama "Southland" back for a second season. Now it isn't.

If style is an articulation of character, Isaac Mizrahi might be the Falstaff of the fashion world.

U.S. stocks rebounded on Monday as upbeat service data and report of large banks being upgraded boosted market sentiment. Wall Street had been lower in seven out of past eight trading days. Shares were sent higher on Monday after latest data shows that U.S. service industry grew for the first time in more than a year. The Institute for Supply Management said its service index rose to 50.9 in September from 48.4 in August. Analysts had expected a reading of 50, which is the benchmar ...

AFP - A suicide bomb attack at a funeral killed five people on Monday in western Iraq where a roadside bombing claimed a sixth life, local officials said.

AP - With a computer or cell phone and an electronic tracking device, you can locate a missing pet, follow the path of a stolen car, find a skier buried in an avalanche and rescue a hiker lost in the woods.