By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 1968 oil painting by German artist Gerhard Richter sold for some $37 million at Sotheby's contemporary art auction on Tuesday, a new record for a work by a living artist. The sale took in $293,587,000, at ... [Full Article]
By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LivingSocial, the second-largest daily deal company behind Groupon Inc, said on Friday that it was hit by a cyber attack that may have affected more than 50 million customers. The company said the attack on ... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Deep in the ocean, bizarre creatures colonize deep-sea hydrothermal vents, where boiling water laden with minerals builds otherworldly towers. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ron Livingston has found a new gig - and he won't have to deal with those TPS reports that he had to file back at Initech. "Office Space" star Livingston has signed on as a regular on HBO's period drama... [Full Article]
NUTLEY, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey woman widely known as "the tanning mom" is celebrating a grand jury's refusal to indict her on a charge she unlawfully let her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Just as you learn to put up with a nagging toothache, this week is expected to provide fresh evidence that the U.S. economy is getting used to life on the edge of the fiscal cliff. Of course, putting off that trip to the dentist is... [Full Article]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his people must pursue economic improvement with the same urgency scientists put into the launch of a long-range rocket last month. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women have long been known to live longer than men, but when it comes to hitting the century mark the difference is stark: just 2 out of 10 Americans who live to 100 or longer are male. Of the 53,364 Americans age 100 and older... [Full Article]