A multi-million dollar lawsuit claiming that NBC prompted the suicide death of a Texas prosecutor who was a pedophile suspect is moving ahead after ruling by a U.S. federal judge on Tuesday.

Google and five other companies have agreed to build a high-bandwidth underwater fiber optic cable linking the United States and Japan. They expect to build this system for an estimated cost of $300 million by 2010.

Eighteen members of the Arcadian family Theriault have made it to the Guinness book of records for the most siblings over the age of 65. Between 1920 and 1941 Eugene and Alice Theriault welcomed seven sons and 12 daughters into their Grand Falls home.

Coming May 12 is Nintendo’s answer to Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade and Sony’s PlayStation Network, in the form of WiiWare, a new downloadable game service encouraging the creation of new games while promising to bring down development barriers.

A new Facebook application from Mars UK allows members to buy real chocolate bars for other members. The Celebrate app could be a trailblazer in a branding trend that will bring real gift-giving to the social network.

Attorney general Larry Long says that an email scam involving "hired killers" is making rounds on the Internet. Investigators have already received more than five complaints about the email in the past week.

An Israeli Minister of Parliament is blaming the country's tolerance of gays for the earthquakes in the country. He says the lawmakers are giving “legitimacy to sodomy” and wants them to stop issuing policies favoring gays.

The Firefox Internet browser reached a golden target of 500 million downloads today, and their parent organization Mozilla is celebrating by raising money to deliver 500 million grains of rice for the UN World Food Program.

Apple notified its customers via e-mail that it will offer one movie rental every Thursday at a special price of $0.99. It also released a new version of iTunes (version 7.6.1) today with improved compatibility for Apple TV 2.0.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony became the parents of twins early on Friday. The 38 year old actress and singer gave birth to a boy and a girl at a Long Island hospital in New York.

Out of anger and frustration due to the recognition and support of Kosovo’s independence by the United States government, several hundred angered Serbs protested throughout the streets of Belgrade and attacked the US embassy.

Google wanted to launch Google Health in cooperation with hospitals, patients, pharmacies for some time, and now it will launch a pilot program with Cleveland Clinic Hospital.

Thought to be the world's oldest person, Israel's Mariam Amash, who is 120 years old, is alive and well and surrounded by her family -- all four generations of them, and the most recent one has just arrived

Kent Blackwelder of Tennessee has filed a $4-million lawsuit against Delaware-based Specialty Publications which promotes adult gay material. His 12-year-old daughter opened an unsolicited mailer and was shocked to see photos of naked men having sex.

How often have you had a cola drink or sparkling water in a restaurant with a slice of lemon? That slice of lemon could be carrying a wide range of nasty bacteria, according to a recent study.

The U.S. Navy says its mission to shoot down a satellite that was falling back to Earth was a success. The Navy fired a single modified tactical missile, hitting the satellite at about 133 nautical miles over the Pacific Ocean. Now, China is not happy.

The whole of mankind can breathe a sigh of relief now for the very question which has eluded men for centuries has finally been answered - the G spot has been found by ultrasound.

With the declaration of independence by Kosovo from Serbia this past weekend, other separatist regions are looking to them as an example. Given that there is U.S. support for this, how well did it go over when the south tried to go independent in 1860?

When Professor Nouriel Roubini of New York University's Stern School of Business, who predicted a recession in 2006, talks against all data, people now listen. Prof Roubini has defined what would need to happen to create a catastrophic crash.

Stanford University is leading the way by announcing it won’t charge tuition fees for students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year. The money will be paid from the funds collected via its endowment.