SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM) said Monday it is recalling over 1.5 million vehicles manufactured between 2008 and 2014 to correct three separate problems. The move follows CEO Mary Barra's request for a ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — The end of Microsoft's support for Windows XP is just three weeks away. Astonishingly, there are as many as 400 million or more PCs still running the operating system first launched by Microsoft in 2001. And, bizarre, but true: Its market ...

Ghana will go into the World Cup finals in Brazil with less than half the budget they had for the tournament in South Africa four years ago. The country's government has approved an amount of US$9.6m for the campaign - a total that would be paid if the Black ...

PRETORIA, Mar 17 – Oscar Pistorius was in the process of buying six guns at the time he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, more than usually allowed under South African law, his murder trial heard on Monday. Gun licenser Sean Rens testified that ...

Months before he killed his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius described how he drew his gun and went into “combat mode” after hearing a possible intruder at his home, a South African firearms expert told the athlete's murder trial today. The noise turned out to be a ...

TWAS a tale of two temperatures as St Patrick's Day festivities brought the Irish and their friends out to celebrate our national day over the weekend. While London and Birmingham bathed in the balmy mid-teens, scarves and stockings were in order for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Astronomers announced on Monday that they had discovered what many consider the holy grail of their field: ripples in the fabric of space-time that are echoes of the massive expansion of the universe that took place just after the Big ...

The magnitude 4.4 earthquake that struck near Westwood is the most significant shake in Southern California since a 5.5 earthquake hit Chino Hills in 2008, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist told reporters at a news conference Monday morning.

Malaysia appealed for help from countries with radar and satellite data yesterday as the unprecedented search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet expanded, with Australia, China, Indonesia and Kazakhstan deploying military and civilian resources.

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine – The Crimean parliament on Monday declared the region independent of Ukraine, a first step toward the goal backed by 96% of voters during a weekend referendum: becoming part of Russia. The peninsula's pro-Moscow parliament ...

A little over 10 years ago, Microsoft released its revolutionary note-taking program, OneNote, and today the service is hitting a new mile stone. Today Microsoft announced that it has released the Mac version of OneNote and is offering it to all Mac users for ...

MAJDAL ANJAR, Lebanon (AP) — Along with some 20 other Syrian children, 13-year-old Anas braves rain, mud and cold to attend class in a tent pitched along Lebanon's border with Syria, the home of a Syrian refugee family that serves as a classroom for ...

MONTHS before he killed his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius described how he drew his gun and went into "combat mode" after hearing a possible intruder at his home, a South African firearms expert told the athlete's murder trial today.

Microsoft OneNote for Mac is now official and is available to download from the Mac App Store. We heard just last week that it was on the way, and Microsoft hasn't disappointed. OneNote has been absent from the Mac until now, but what has been deliv.

The Government of Ghana has allocated GH¢24,677,025 towards the country's participation in the 2014 Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament in Brazil in June. A statement signed by the Minister of Information, Mahama ...

Hoping to cut down on air pollution that in recent days has reached dangerous levels, city officials in Paris on Monday began trying to cut automobile emissions by enforcing an odd-even system of traffic rules. For the most part, only cars with odd-numbered ...

It won't be nearly as much fun as eating candy bars, but a big study is being launched to see if pills containing the nutrients in dark chocolate can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. The pills are so packed with nutrients that you'd have to eat a gazillion ...

This move is the final step in the privatization of the Internet's domain name system (DNS). 0shares. gTLD applications. U.S. officials are taking steps to relinquish control of the Internet address system. The National Telecommunications and Information ...

What's News: U.S. Navy SEALS boarded an oil tanker loaded with Libyan crude. The Euro Zone's annual rate of inflation is lower in February than first estimated. U.S. industrial production rises more than expected. Veronica Dagher reports. Photo: Getty.