A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to get microchips and take out insurance ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department apologized on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for "jihad," often translated as "armed struggle," against Switzerland. "I understand that my personal comments were perceived as a personal attack," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters. "These comments do not reflect U.S. policy ...

Austria's Hans Grugger and Switzerland's Fabienne Suter set the early pace in the men's and women's downhill training on Tuesday ahead of the World Cup finale. American ski queen Lindsey Vonn and Switzerland's Didier Cuche will be the ones to beat in Wednesday's downhill races, but Grugger and Suter were the fastest down the ...

Shares of Cerus Corp. rose Tuesday as an R.W. Baird analyst upgraded his rating on the company, citing the value and potential of the Intercept blood system. The system is used to clean bacteria, viruses, and parasites out of donated blood prior to transfusion ...