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This Best Buy store in Richfield, Minn., near the retailer's corporate headquarters, is getting remodeled as part of a pilot project in the Twin Cities and San Antonio, Texas. The new store, part of Best Buy's "connected store" concept, will be smaller and emphasize portable electronics, such as tablets and e-readers.

More and more consumers are buying electronics online instead of at Best Buy's sprawling showrooms. So the struggling electronics retailer is shifting strategy: closing some of its giant stores, opening smaller ones and cutting 400 jobs.

People walk past a Falklands War memorial in Ushuaia, Argentina, on Sunday. Some Argentines want Britain to give up the Falkland Islands, which Argentina tried to take over in a bloody war in 1982.

30 Years On, Argentina Still Claims Falklands

Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands 30 years ago Monday, touching off a short but bloody war with Britain. Argentina lost, and the islands in the frigid South Atlantic stayed under British control. However, Argentina still claims the islands.

Google's Goggles: Is The Future Right Before Our Eyes?

Eye glasses with computing power have long been sci-fi fantasy, relegated to Terminator movies and the like. But now it appears Google may be a few months from selling a beta version of their own.

What Science Fiction Books Does A Futurist Read?

Science fiction's job is to give us a map of where we're headed. From Jules Verne to William Gibson, sci-fi authors describe their visions of the future, and how people might live in it. We ask Intel's futurist for his list of favorite sci-fi books.

Quidi Vidi's lager is brewed with 25,000-year-old water harvested from Newfoundland's icebergs.

Newfoundland Gives Whole New Meaning To Ice Cold Beer

Spring brings in one very unusual business in northern Canada: iceberg harvesting. Every spring, icebergs break off Greenland and float south.

Tiger Woods at a practice round ahead of the 2012 Masters Tournament, which begins Thursday in Augusta, Ga. Woods receives the lion's share of press coverage despite his poor record over the past several years.<em></em>

Is It Time To Tone Down The Tiger Woods Coverage?

With the Masters tournament poised to begin Thursday, Tiger Woods continues to dominate golf coverage — despite the fact that he isn't actually winning tournaments.

Egyptian military police stand by as a protester holds a placard in support of Salafist presidential candidate Hazem Abu Ismail at a demonstration outside the High Presidential Election Committee building Tuesday in Cairo. Ismail and nine other candidates have been disqualified from the race.

Egypt's Banned Candidates Vow Not To Go Quietly

Election officials upheld their ban of nearly half of the presidential candidates running in next month's contest. Among them are two leading Islamist candidates and the intelligence chief for former President Hosni Mubarak. The decision radically alters the race for a post that will shape Egypt's political landscape.

The McDonald's inside the Cleveland Clinic, 2004, in Cleveland.

Fast Food Chains In Cafeterias Put Hospitals In A Bind

Hospitals trying to eliminate unhealthy food from their cafeterias are finding that uprooting fast food chains isn't easy.

TEDMED: Live from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

TEDMED Takes Its Big Health Tent To Washington

TEDMED has rolled into the nation's capital, and the conference is drawing hip health care geeks from around the world. Cookie Monster came, too.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said human trafficking will not be tolerated in the U.S. during a speech at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., on Tuesday.

Holder Vows 'Zero Tolerance' To Human Trafficking

In a major speech in Little Rock, Ark., Attorney General Eric Holder said far too many reports of abuse cross his desk each week, more than 40 percent of them involving children. There were a record 120 such cases in the U.S. in the past year.

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