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Jay-Z and Kanye West released one of the most anticipated albums on the year, Watch the Throne.

The new Mercedes-Benz C-Class coupe is hardly short on looks, and thanks to the wizards at the company’s in-house speed shop, AMG, it’s no slouch in the performance department, either. On the capable heels of the fearsome C63 AMG coupe—which faces off this year against the Audi S5, the BMW ...

Twenty-two individuals will soon be a half-million dollars richer, having won this year’s so-called genius grants. [More]

It's not just the so-called "Post-PC" era that is kicking the backsides of Microsoft, HP, and Dell; it's the dramatic shift in the server market too. While Microsoft continues to dominate the enterprise server market with 71 percent of new sales worldwide (according to second-quarter figures for 2011), the Web server market is a different story.

Tom Lewis, the youngster who rose to prominence by taking a share of the first-round lead at this year's British Open, has turned professional.

It may be responsible for the financial meltdown, but while it was writing bad mortgages, Bank of America was also doing excellent work reducing its footprint. There are lot of problems in the world, and myriad ways to fix them. It's almost impossible to address them all at the same time.

Geneva-based wine purveyor, Wine & Trust SA and legendary Italian motorcycle brand MV Agusta recently released a limited-edition wine case, and its purchase grants the buyer a chance to win a 2012 MV Agusta motorcycle.

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Germany aims to shorten the time it takes for information on infectious-disease outbreaks to reach federal authorities from up to 18 days to just three, after this year's outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli killed 53 people. [More]

A three-year, government-funded effort to track the movement of greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere has yielded surprising results that could help improve the accuracy of climate models. Researchers used a specially equipped plane for a series of pole-to-pole flights to measure the concentrations of greenhouse gases and black carbon particles at different altitudes, different locations and different times of the year

GolfChannel: Once a relatively slow part of the season, a confusing end of the year now has players like Andres Romero making some tough scheduling decisions.

William White developed a passion for high-end men’s footwear while working as a sales representative for the Italian shoemaker Sutor Mantellassi from 2004 to 2008. This year, he’s launched his own Italian-made men’s footwear with an American twist.

NORTON, Mass. (AP) - Troy Matteson is having his best opening round of the year at just the right time.

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - La Nina, a weather phenomenon typically linked to flooding in the Asia-Pacific, African drought and a more intense hurricane season over the Atlantic, could occur in a weak form this year, the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday. [More]

The next tournament in America for Tiger Woods will be in California. The question now is whether he can play another tournament in California at the end of the year.

A special nod to this year's Council Members who made 2011's Inc. 5000 honoree list. Many are multiple year winners.