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In cosying up to Google's main competitor, Bing, Rupert Murdoch proves once again that he can't be dismissed so easily Rupert Murdoch...Photograph: Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images Rupert Murdoch may not know much about the internet. But he knows more about how...

District Judge James Redden praised the White House's additions to a Bush-era dam and salmon plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers. He said in a hearing Monday that "with a little bit of work," the federal government might be...

On the 150th anniversary of its publication an appeal has been launched for a missing notebook in which the scientist jotted important observations. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Today, on the 150th anniversary of a book that changed the world – the...

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Until she left for college this fall, the 19-year-old lived with her family in a typical California stucco house with a lawn. But when it comes to water, neither the Martins nor their town, San Luis Obispo, is typical. Katie,...

Construction work begins today on a car that engineers hope will break the land speed record by more than 200mph. The car, Bloodhound , is designed to travel faster than 1,000mph (1,600km/h) — far in excess of the speed of...