CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) - TO Nasa's relief, a fueling test on space shuttle Endeavour uncovered no hydrogen gas leaks on Wednesday and paved the way for another launch attempt late next week for the delayed mission.
NEW YORK - FACEBOOK is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.
LONDON/SEATTLE - MICROSOFT'S new Bing search engine gained US market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google, according to data released on Wednesday.
Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 per cent of US Web searches in June, up from 7.81 per cent for Microsoft search just prior to its rollout and 7.21 per cent in April, said Internet data firm StatCounter.
WASHINGTON - THE United States is losing its battle against bulging waistlines, with two-thirds of Americans now overweight or obese, according to an annual report released on Wednesday.
In the past year, nearly half of the 50 US states saw obesity rates rise and no state saw a fall in the number of people who were obese, according to the sixth annual 'F as in Fat' report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
