Hulk Hogan and wife Linda have been separated for some time now, and the couple even filmed part of their last season of “Hogan Knows Best” while apart.

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A top scientist using stem cells from human embryos to cure disease and repair injuries will proceed with his work, he said in Tucson on Tuesday, despite a recent breakthrough showing the controversial embryos may no longer be needed.
That blockbuster breakthrough was announced last week by researchers in Wisconsin and Japan, who have discovered how […]

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The product would be a kind of umbrella service for the storage Google already offers with some of its Web-based applications, such as e-mail and photo sharing.
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is planning an online storage and backup service that would essentially offer people a Web-based hard drive for accessing and sharing information that resides in their […]

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Iceland has overtaken Norway as the world’s most desirable country to live in, according to an annual U.N. table published on Tuesday that again puts AIDS-afflicted sub-Saharan African states at the bottom.

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WASHINGTON - Just 24 hours after securing an agreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders to resume long-stalled peace talks, President Bush invited the pair to the White House to ceremonially inaugurate the first formal, direct negotiations in seven years.
Capping an intense flurry of diplomacy that salvaged a joint Israeli-Palestinian agreement at nearby Annapolis, Md., to […]

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Volkswagen AG has its expansive Autostadt all-brand theme park in Wolfsburg, Mercedes-Benz has its sparkling new museum in Stuttgart. And now, Bavaria joins the fray with its BMW Welt (World) in Munich’s Oberwiesenfeld district. Sign up for European delivery of your new 1, 3, 5, 6, or 7 Series, and you pick up your car at BMW Welt.

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Sitting in a theater filled with 8-year-old girls and their 43-year-old parents, it is easy to wonder what the Disney franchise has to offer these days. Since Disney’s most recent hey-day in the early 1990s with the successes of “Aladdin,” “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King,” Disney movies have been a slew of disappointing animated comedies and live-action dramas, bolstered only by their Pixar successes. After more than a few manic-animal movies that bombed at the box office, it begs to be asked why Disney didn’t just continue to do what it did best with its princess-themed animated dramas.

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Online retailers, bracing for a record holiday season, say their busiest day will come in December’s second week; eBay calls it “Green Monday”
Two years ago, a group of savvy marketers deemed the first workday after Thanksgiving the biggest online shopping day of the year. But e-tailers have long known that the digital dollars don’t really […]

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To win the Democratic nomination for President, Barack Obama still needs the same thing he has needed all along — for voters to see him as ready to be commander in chief by January 2009. So now the question is: Will appearing at weekend campaign rallies with Oprah Winfrey help him achieve that goal?

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Brad Pitt has put Universal in a state of angst.
The actor has pulled out of studio’s State of Play on the eve of principal photography, sending Universal scrambling for a suitable replacement or else risk shutting down the highly anticipated thriller.
“Brad Pitt has left the Universal Pictures production of State of Play,” Universal said in a statement Monday.

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