Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales built the fifth most-popular Web site by having volunteers post and edit encyclopedia entries. Now, he's using the same approach to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the Internet search market.

Officials say a woman died in the Florida Keys after a stingray jumped out of the water and struck her upper body.

I had no idea trout lived so long.

Netflix, the online movie rental company, said today it is switching exclusively to the Blu-ray format for high-definition DVDs, following four major movie studios in selecting the Sony technology over one pushed by Toshiba.

A defendant in the so-called "Jena Six" case last year that led to angry allegations of racially biased prosecution in the small Louisiana town now faces a misdemeanor assault charge after an apparent fight at his new high school in Texas.

An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts.

This is the 23rd edition of shoes names for Michael Jordan, who wore the Number 23 jersey. Only 23 pairs will be sold at 23 stores nationwide, for $230.

History could have come to life in very much the wrong way at a veterans' museum where a rocket on display for two years was discovered Wednesday to be live.

The international team, led by Timothy Rowe, of the University of Texas in Austin, used a specially modified CT scanner to capture high-resolution images of the internal structure of a 112.5- to 122-million-year-old Teinolophos jawbone found in southeaste