Imagine drinking Tabasco sauce and thinking it tasted like a sugary glaze, or drinking a bitter beer that your taste buds are certain is chocolate.

Five years ago Greg Lasrado drove a $500,000 black Lamborghini Diablo, rubbed shoulders with high-powered people such as US president Bill Clinton, lived between multimillion-dollar penthouses and bought racehorses for fun. Today his sole asset is a...

Social-networking site Facebook has borrowed $100 million to help keep up with its explosive growth. Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture loan firm TriplePoint is helping the site finance the expansion of its server farms, and other infrastructure expenses,...

If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. Cellphones have become consumers’ most personal technological devices.

When convicted rapist Michael Clark was freed from prison, he refused to return to his home town of Scunthorpe because he claimed to fear for his safety.

The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory _ a surprising victory, surprisingly large.

Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.

First up, we have this double-barrel cigarette holder. Makes perfect sense, right? You’ve got two lungs, gotta have two cigarettes. Of course if you used this I don’t think you’d have two lungs for very long…

“Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

One might think that the United States’ nuclear weapons—the cornerstone deterrent in the country’s arsenal—would be treated with the utmost precision. This comfortable illusion was shaken on Aug. 31, 2007, when crews loaded six live nuclear...