A study of more than 40,000 men and women in Japan has found that those who drink a lot of green tea live longer, researchers said on Tuesday.

Way up high in Colorado, where tourists get nauseous, the locals live and keep on living – longer than virtually any other place in the United States. A new Harvard University longevity study puts seven high-country Colorado counties in the top 10 in the nation, with an average lifespan of 81.3 years.

Facebook, the No. 2 social network Web site, will soon announce that it will open up its virtual doors to anyone with an e-mail address. While the move will broaden its appeal for advertisers, Facebook will not threaten MySpace’s dominance anytime soon.

A new report from Informa Telecoms and Media shows that the number of digital TV households in Western Europe will nearly double over the next five years, from 61 million in 2006 to 116 million in 2011. The UK is currently the single largest digital TV market in Europe and this will continue to be [...]

In a survey of nearly 2,000 companies by Landor Associates, these ten showed the most growth in "brand strength"-based on consumer perceptions of variables like awareness and esteem-over a three-year period. The "value gained" is a calculation of the financial contribution that brand strength makes to each firm’s bottom line, considering such factors as sales [...]

China is committed to speeding up the development and opening up of its capital markets, but the government prefers a gradual approach to achieving the objective, a securities regulator said yesterday.

eMarketer projects that 297 million Americans will have a mobile phone by the end of 2009, up from 208 million in 2005, representing over 92% of the country’s population.

Look who’s talking! People in Miami and Los Angeles chat on their cell phones more than any other Americans, according to a survey of cell phone use in major cities.

Russia will cooperate closely with China on moon exploration and the two nations could sign space cooperation agreements by the year’s end, the Russian space chief said Monday.

China is drafting new laws to make it easier for people to donate their organs in a country with long transplant waiting lists, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

Seth Godin: The point of the following list isn’t to persuade you to give up your quest and become a producer for the Today Show or to go work for People magazine. No, all the growth and the opportunity and the fun is at the leading edge, at the place where change happens. I just thought [...]

U.S. scientists say finding bacteria, viruses and other substances in hospitals or airplanes may soon be as easy wiping a napkin across a surface.

Any public company that now offered a new CEO $100 million would be scourged without mercy by shareholder activists and TV talking heads nationwide.

There are as many reasons for hating a job as there are jobs. Some of the most prevalent include a lack of autonomy and flexibility, a corporate culture that doesn’t fit with your values, feeling disrespected or unappreciated, and discrepancies in pay. But the top reason is a difficult boss.

A recent poll conducted in Japan showed that the majority of Japanese would like a female to reign the country despite the recent birth of the male heir.

Thousands of undergraduate students are being forced to sign good behaviour contracts with their universities and warned they could be expelled if they breach regulations.