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U.S. Memory Champion Joshua Foer shows how anyone can learn amazing feats of memory, including him.

Google is offering $3.14159 million in total rewards for hackers who can find critical security flaws in its Chrome operating system.

Las Vegas is adding an eye-catching tourist attraction, in the form of a huge wheel that can take more than 1,000 people on a ride 550 feet into the sky over the city's famed Strip. The main construction of the wheel, called the High Roller, is nearly finished; it is expected to open in early 2014.

Joseph Sweet and a friend got lost in a cave in Watertown, N.Y., nearly 20 years ago. They grew so desperate for light that Sweet made little torches out of the only fuel he had, taking dollar bills from his wallet and setting them on fire. The good news: he got rescued. The bad news: he lost his wallet.

In Alabama, the state's hospital association is reporting "negative 29 ICU beds," which means 29 patients are unable to receive the intensive care needed to save their lives.

Listen to a playlist of the best songs of 1993.

The controversial, best-selling Egyptian novel The Yacoubian Building describes a country that is corrupt, unfair and thuggish. Now it's being made into a star-studded film.

The Bob Dylan Center opens in Tulsa on Tuesday. It contains more than 100,000 pieces from his archives.

Imagine staying in business for 127 years. That's what Cross Western Wear has managed in Ogden, Utah. But the decline of ranching and changing taste in clothes are forcing the descendants of C.W. Cross to close the store he opened in 1878.

The unmistakable voice of Roberta Flack has been part of the American soundtrack since the 1960s.