SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea followed recent conciliatory gestures toward the U.S. and South Korea with a return to threats Sunday, warning them of “merciless retaliation” over sanctions imposed on its government, and nuclear attacks in response to any atomic provocation. Seoul and Washington will kick off annual computer-simulated …

LONDON – Police say they have arrested a man suspected of knifing 8 people in a rampage in a town in northern England. West Yorkshire Police say the stabbing spree ended early Friday morning when bystanders detained a 19-year-old outside a pub in the town of Keighley. Four people were …

TAIPEI – Airlines around the world now spend millions of dollars annually upgrading their inflight entertainment systems, but iPods and other mobile entertainment gadgets could render all that useless. Besides bland airline food, one other certainty for most long-haul travelers flying in economy class has always been time passed with …

LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas police are investigating how a 5-year-old boy apparently found a gun inside a car and accidentally shot himself in the head. Police say the boy and his father were going through a drive-through window at a Walgreens on Monday night when the boy found a …

Google’s CEO once said the company wants to know more about you than you know about you. It looks like the search engine giant may not be far from reaching that goal. With applications including Google Finance, Google Translate, Google Earth, Google Images – just to name a few – …

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson were two peas in one odd pod. The eccentric star from Hollywood’s golden era the shape-shifting King of Pop shared “the purest, most giving love,” according to Taylor in a statement made shortly after Jackson’s death, in one of the strangest, and longest lasting, celebrity …

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan returned 62 sex offenders to prison in the past week after they were mistakenly released because of glitch in how psychologists determined their treatment plans, authorities said. The parolees, who were outfitted with GPS tethers, were picked up immediately after officials learned of the mistake, Department …

by Lori L. Wadsworth and Rex L. Facer II Romney Institute of Public Management Brigham Young University The use of a 4 day 10 hour workweek has received increased interest of late. With gasoline costs soaring last summer, many organizations looked for strategies to cope with the price spike. Some …

Seven students have been punished for violating the code of conduct at Oprah Winfrey’s school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa, the second controversy to hit the fledgling institution since it opened in 2007. Winfrey representative Don Halcombe said Wednesday that four students were expelled and three were suspended last …

LOS ANGELES – The sister of Britney Spears’ former manager testified Wednesday that the pop singer said in recent months that she was afraid of her father and wanted help hiring her own lawyer. Attorneys for Spears’ father and conservatorship are seeking a long-standing restraining order against Osama “Sam” Lutfi, …