National organizations are demanding that Craigslist remove its adult services section from its websites outside the U.S. after the company stopped posting the section on its U.S. site.

For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.

It's Apple versus Google in a growing battle for the living room -- and consumers could reap all the benefits. 

Dissent and infighting may be the new order of business at WikiLeaks, as a rape investigation into the whistle-blowing website's outspoken frontman Julian Assange threatens to tear the site apart.

As they head off to school, a growing number of students are being carefully tracked -- not only their classroom grades, but also their precise locations. 

The U.K.'s Royal Mail has released the world’s first intelligent stamps. Adding a high-tech twist to traditional snail mail, the new stamps are designed to interact with smartphones using a custom application, linking them to special online content. 

Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.

An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.

A galactic "supervolcano" in the massive galaxy M87 is erupting, blasting gas outwards. The cosmic volcano — driven by a giant black hole in M87's center — is preventing hundreds of millions of new stars from forming. 

Alien life may already exist on Earth -- us. 

As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still many cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. Here's the top 10.  By Joe Rao, Space.com.

Scientists say they've found a new species of turtle in the Pearl River, and they've named it, aptly enough, the Pearl map turtle.

Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.

A strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck close to New Zealand's second-largest city of Christchurch early Saturday local time, wreaking havoc on buildings, roads and infrastructure.

NASA is developing an ambitious new mission to plunge a car-sized probe directly into the sun's atmosphere, boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before.

Wolf spiders and carnivorous plants called sundews may compete with each other for food in the wild, a new study finds.

Samsung's first tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, will go on sale in two weeks -- joining the Dell Streak and a slew of Google-powered pads, all trying to turn up the heat on the Apple iPad.

The showdown over 3Par Inc. that ended Thursday was a puzzling spectacle. It pitted two of the world's biggest technology companies against each other for control of a company that was obscure outside of technology circles and flat-out unloved on Wall Street, with a stock that was stuck around $10 for a year and a half. Why?

A German bomber shot down in World War II has been found 50 feet below the sea off the coast of England.

An Indonesian volcano that was quiet for four centuries shot a new, powerful burst of hot ash more than 10,000 feet in the air Friday, sending frightened residents fleeing to safety for the second time this week.