Sex and pornography have been trounced by business and e-commerce as the most popular internet search topics, new research shows.

Downloading TV shows from the Internet is a relatively new activity for US Internet users, but a recent report from Ipsos Insight indicates that 11 million Americans over the age of 12 did so in the month of June.

By 2050, 12 percent of US citizens will have diabetes, a total of 48.3 million people, federal health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta estimate.

Leading U.S. home builders appear to have adopted one of two strategies to endure a rapidly deteriorating housing market, based on differing bets on just how long the slump will last and how bad it will get.

Rich Karlgaard:  Apple’s cofounder, chairman and CEO was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August 2004. The survival stats for pancreatic cancer are grim. But Jobs suffered from a rarer and less fatal form of the disease, called islet cell pancreatic cancer. Here is the prognosis:

A new report by PhoCusWright, "The Emerging Online Travel Marketplace in India," estimates that online leisure/unmanaged business travel gross bookings in India totaled $295 million in 2005 and will grow nearly sevenfold in just three years to go beyond $2.0 billion by 2008.

You sink into a warm bath, the scent of vanilla and honey wafts through the air, pleasuring your senses – you sip your glass of champagne and bask in the soft glow of the candles. Hang on a minute…you didn’t light any candles!

Living near a hazardous waste site containing persistent pollutants such as dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlorinated pesticides, seems to increase the risk of hospitalization for respiratory infections and asthma in children, a study suggests.