Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.

The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to...

Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement.

The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few blocks...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday paid a short visit to Bulgaria and discussed energy issues and military cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Xinhua reported.

At a...

L.A. Reid has reportedly signed up to be a judge on the second series of the American version of "The X Factor".

The 55-year-old has reportedly signed a contract to reprise his position on the panel...

American comedian Joan Rivers claims she has had a total of 739 surgical procedures.

According to showbizspy.com, the 78-year-old TV personality has gone under the knife more than 700 times, and...

Then US president John F. Kenendy took the virginity of a White House intern in a side room a few feet away from where staffers were drinking at an after-work party, the Daily Mail Sunday quoted a...

A group of congressmen has sought the US citizenship for jailed Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, who helped the CIA track down and kill former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden last year in his...

Sam Arora is a Maryland state Delegate, Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji served on President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) and Hari Kondabalu is a rising comedy star just back from an...

Versatile US actor Ben Gazzara died in a New York hospital of pancreatic cancer, The New York Times said. He was 81.

A student at New York's legendary Actor's Studio where other Hollywood stars like...

Former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney secured his third victory of the GOP primary season, as television networks declared him the winner of Nevada's...

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. -; A memorial Mass has been scheduled for a Minnesota couple who are missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster, their family announced Sunday. Jerry and Barbara Heil, of...

In this undated photo released by the Anchorage Police Department missing Anchorage, Alaska, barista, Samantha Koenig, 18, is pictured. Police say there's little doubt Koenig was abducted after...

NEW ORLEANS -; A stomach virus outbreak delayed the departure of the cruise ship "Voyager of the Seas" from New Orleans in one of three outbreaks of illness aboard U.S.-based cruise ships...

CAIRO -- Egyptian investigators filed criminal charges Sunday against at least 40 international civil society workers, reportedly including the son of a U.S. Cabinet secretary, in a case that could...

Joseph S. Blatter visited South America in order to take part in meetings at CONMEBOL’s Extraordinary Congress in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion. Blatter, who was accompanied on the trip by...

LAN Chile, LAN Peru, and LAN Ecuador – will co-locate in Terminal 8 with American at New York JFK, making LAN the fourth oneworld carrier, besides American, to operate from the terminal,...

Mimi Alford , now a 69-year-old grandmother, related how Kennedy led her into "Mrs Kennedy's room" during a personal tour, where he proceeded to have sex with her. The...

1 of 12. New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz is tackled by New England Patriots free safety Sterling Moore and free safety Patrick Chung (25) in the first quarter of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI...

(Reuters) - An "intentional" house explosion on Sunday near Tacoma, Washington killed the husband and two sons of a Utah woman missing since December 2009, fire department officials...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Catholic clergy called on the faithful to write Congress to protest new birth control rules from President Barack Obama's administration, stepping up a campaign that...

An Egyptian judge announced his intent to prosecute 40 workers -- including 19 Americans -- from non-governmental organizations, blaming the groups on the unrest plaguing the country nearly a year...

A stomach virus has stricken people on a third U.S. cruise ship, with a vessel sailing from New Orleans delayed by norovirus. Port of New Orleans spokesman Chris Bonura said Sunday that Royal...

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- The Cost of California's High-Speed Rail Project was originally slated to be $45 billion. According the official website that's still the case despite some analysts...

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Latest from the Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots.
The Patriots won the coin toss and kicked off.
1st quarter 8:52 New York Giants...

Baruch Spinoza said, is a form of sadness; it’s what you cling to when the present is too hard to bear. Now that even hope and change have left us, what are we to do?It’s not morning in...

WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge. The...

WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge. The...

WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation's economic troubles. Obama said in a pre-Super Bowl interview on NBC that his administration is creating...

This undated photo provided by Karanda Williams shows Daniel and Belinda Conne. The couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 after they got lost while picking...

WBUR The Super Bowl game Sunday between the New York Giants and New England Patriots is just one part of a week full of events. Thousand of corporate executives are in Indianapolis for the Super...

A young Palestinian woman who was imprisoned for 10 years in a series of dark rooms by her father said Monday she survived the ordeal by listening to the radio, dreaming of seeing sunshine again and...

Conventional wisdom holds that Whitney Houston sang the best national anthem of all time at the 1991 Super Bowl. I take nothing away from her performance but let's remember two things: 1) The...

As is well known now, American Airlines filed for bankruptcy toward the end of last year. In one certain sense this shouldn't surprise us given how its legacy competitors did much the same...

1 of 6. New England Patriots fans enjoy themselves inside Lucas Oil Stadium before the start of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game against the New York Giants in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 5,...

We charge a bit more for that-mainly because some very smart and experienced data geeks put a lot of time and effort into quantifying the agency, media and marketing world. You'll find the...

A lawyer for Josh Powell says he received a three-word email from his client just minutes before the explosion. It said, "I'm sorry, goodbye. "Attorney Jeffrey Bassett told the Associated Press the...

The father of a missing teenage girl who was abducted by an armed man in Anchorage, Alaska, is pleading for the kidnapper to send his daughter...

An explosion at a Washington state home has killed Josh Powell, the husband of a missing Utah woman, plus their two young sons, officials said Sunday. The explosion occurred moments after a Child...

An explosion and fire at the Washington home of Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah mother Susan Powell, killed an adult male and two children, believed to be Josh Powell and his two sons,...

For the first time, 21st-century audiences are able to hear the voice of Otto von Bismarck, one of the 19th century's most important figures. The National Park Service announced this week...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany - Julia Mancuso's wait for her first win of the season is over. St. Paul native Lindsey Vonn will have to wait a little longer to break another record. Mancuso...

Yes, students and families still buy the guide and its less famous competitors by the hundreds of thousands, and still care about a college's reputation. But it isn't students who obsess over every...

Published Date: December 29, 2011 NEW YORK: Stocks fell yesterday after Europe's central bank reported that its overnight deposits hit another record, the latest indication of worry among...

George Balanchine famously said that his 1956 ballet "Allegro Brillante" contained everything he knew about classical ballet in 13 minutes. Sweeping, spacious dancing and stringent footwork...