New government figures show a surprising increase in youth suicides after a decade of decline, and some mental health experts think a drop in use of antidepressant drugs may be to blame.

Fire helmet? Check. Gloves? Check. Axe? Check. Pet oxygen masks? Check.

Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. You simply won’t believe this photo.

Distractions and inattention while driving are estimated to cause 1.2 million U.S. vehicle crashes annually — about 25 percent of all crashes.

Historically, for Westerners, understanding Asian markets has always been difficult, and the Internet has not made that task any easier — but it has made it more necessary. The Asia-Pacific region is a tale of two types of B2C e-commerce markets.

Check writing has declined sharply since 1995. The Federal Reserve estimates that 49.5 billion checks were paid in the United States in 1995; that figure dropped to 36.6 billion checks paid in 2003, according to the most recent Fed studies.

One-third of major firms in Japan employ workers who are putting in 100 hours or more of overtime work a month, a survey by the Central Labor Relations Commission has found.

Researchers in the US have made the first ever liquid transistor. The revolutionary device, which works thanks to an "electrowetting" effect between two competing fluids, could find applications in biotechnology and in the rapidly developing world of flat panel displays.

Visits to MySpace accounted for nearly 12% of all time spent online by US Internet users in December 2006, according to Compete Inc. The firm’s December 2006 Internet traffic data put US Internet user time spent at MySpace over other sites including eBay, Google, AOL and YouTube. Yahoo! came in second, accounting for 8.5% of […]

Researchers have found that wisdom in old age depends on a fresh supply of new brain cells.

Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities.