Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon's Kindle Fire event in Santa Monica, California September 6, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Gus RuelasBy Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair BarrSAN FRANCISCO | Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:33pm EST SAN

1 of 14. An automobile sits upside down in the car lot of Mercedes-Benz of Mobile following a winter storm in Mobile, Alabama, December 20, 2012. The first major winter storm of the year took aim at the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, triggering high wind

A Christmas wreath is covered with snow on West 4th Street in Waterloo, Iowa, December 20, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Matthew Putney/The Waterloo Courier/HandoutBUFFALO, New York | Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:56pm EST BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - Powerful winds

OSLO | Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:02pm EST OSLO (Reuters) - West Antarctica is warming almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to worries of a thaw that would add to sea level rise from San Francisco to Shanghai, a study showed on Sunday.Annual average

STORY: Andrew Locke has been obsessed with building for most of his life. This is his latest project - a full scale pinball machine made up entirely of K'Nex pieces, a child's construction toy. He has been receiving these construction kits for Christmas

UPSOT: 'WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS' This Christmas carol rendition might sound faint, but then it is more than a century old. UPSOT: 'WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS' The song was recorded by Cromwell Wall back in 1902.. as his family gathered around