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The food is fantastic, but time your trip well.

Blue Star Families has launched a professional network to make it easier for constantly-moving military spouses to find work in their new hometowns.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is facing public criticism after his comments suggesting that women should not ask for raises. But they also underscore questions about tech's male-dominated culture.

Human-rights organizations want to the U.S. to aid ethnic Hmong who have been deported from Thailand to Laos. They say the Hmong face persecution because of their involvement in the U.S.-backed fight against the communist Pathet Lao in the 1970s.

I’ve heard of this kind of "nice" come out in other places during times of crisis. Somehow through the stresses of everyday life we forget how to be kind.

U.S. and British intelligence agencies have worked to infiltrate networks of violence-prone individuals who might unite for a common cause. And in some cases, the spies are also targeting networks that aren't regional terrorist cells -- they're online gaming communities, according to the latest revelation from documents given to the media by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

As hard times have fallen on America's Rust Belt, a new region is hoping to give Detroit a run for its money. Clean-tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are investing in the emerging electric car industry. And Google is among the investors.

Harnessing electromagnetic technology often used to find offshore oil, Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers now have a better sense of just how enormous an underwater volcano off the coast of Central America really is.

Journalist Anna Badkhen chronicles life in a small Afghan village in her new book, The World Is A Carpet. A village of 240 people, Oqa survives on an old-time tradition of carpet weaving. Residents earn about 40 cents a day for carpets that eventually sell for $5,000 to $20,000 abroad.

Thailand's political unrest is hurting its tourism industry. After protesters seized the country's two main airports, tourists started canceling their holiday plans. The airports are open, but Thailand's image has been tarnished.