The Sundance Film Festival, the premiere event for U.S. independent movies, Wednesday unveiled a wide-ranging list of more than 60 movies that will compete for awards at its 25th anniversary event in January. Read more »

J.K. Rowling's first editor, who championed Harry Potter after several publishers had turned the boy wizard down, described the author as "fierce" but fair to work with.what Read more »

Las Vegas rockers The Killers beat the eagerly awaited new Guns'n'Roses album "Chinese Democracy" to the top spot in Britain's album charts Sunday. Read more »

Moviegoers got their holiday cheer in gear, sending romantic comedy "Four Christmases" to the top of box office hits over the US Thanksgiving weekend for its North American debut, Exhibitor Relations said Sunday. Read more »

The camera work is not perfect and the footage a little grainy, but the Toronto policewoman looks straight into the camera and immediately asks for help. Read more »

Fewer young Americans have Internet access than their peers in the Czech Republic, Canada, Macao and Britain, a survey of 13 countries around the world showed. Read more »

China has developed a sophisticated cyber warfare program and stepped up its capacity to penetrate US computer networks to extract sensitive information, a US congressional panel warned. Read more »

Microsoft, seeking to boost the popularity of its Zune music player, announced a new subscription offer on Thursday that will allow users to keep 10 tracks a month permanently. Read more »

Iran has designed a radar-evading aircraft, the head of its air force said on Monday, the Islamic Republic's latest announcement of progress on military hardware amid persistent tension with the West over its nuclear plans. Read more »

Spiders flying as an educational project aboard the International Space Station seem to have gotten the hang of weightlessness. Read more »

The New York Times Co slashed its dividend by almost three-quarters and said it would cut spending and reevaluate its assets to cope with a slump in advertising revenue that is gouging U.S. newspaper publishers. Read more »

A balloon-borne instrument soaring high over Antarctica has found evidence of a possible large clump of mysterious so-called dark matter relatively close to our solar system, scientists said Wednesday. Read more »

Babies born by Caesarean section are more likely to develop asthma than children delivered naturally, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday. Read more »

Blood pressure readings done in the doctor's office may have little value at predicting which patients who continue to have high blood pressure despite treatment will have a stroke, heart attack or heart failure, Brazilian researchers said Monday. Read more »

U.S. health officials asked doctors Thursday to be alert for possible cases of meningitis and other illnesses in children caused by Hib bacteria amid an ongoing vaccine shortage. Read more »

The lung cancer pill Iressa has shown surprising results for patients with advanced disease where it has been at least as effective as a standard chemotherapy treatment, researchers reported on Thursday. Read more »