Tensions remain high in Tunisia as the country awaits the announcement of a new national unity government. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has said an agreement between the political parties would be unveiled on Monday, following talks over the ...

Well-wishers left tributes to Representative Gabrielle Giffords yesterday outside her office in Tucson. Doctors said that they might soon know if the injured legislator is able to speak.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Seattle Seahawks were busier than a Wall Street trading firm this season making an NFL-high 284 transactions.

Wayne Alexander, board chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration Committee in Broward, with a portrait of the late civil-rights leader.

Mavy Stoddard speaks out at the funeral of her husband, Dorwan. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' condition improves. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times Near the end of Sunday's funeral for her husband, Mavanell "Mavy" Stoddard ...

Best Actress in a Drama says, 'He totally wants to sleep with me!' referencing 'Black Swan' scene with Benjamin Millepied.

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China's leading cities saw property prices rise an average of 0.3% in December from the prior month, and 6.4% from a year earlier, according to reported data released Monday by the National Bureau of ...

AP | Posted: Monday, January 17, 2011 12:00 am Reigning National League MVP Joey Votto agreed Sunday to a $38 million, three-year contract extension with the Cincinnati Reds, a source said.

A trader works in the JP Morgan stall on floor of the New York Stock Exchange, September 14, 2009. By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - US bank stocks are flying high, and this week's earnings could give investors more reason to be optimistic ...

CHICAGO - It was around halftime of Saturday night's game in Atlanta when Bears fans in downtown Chicago bars (so I'm told) began to shout about a historic NFC Championship Game date with Green Bay.

BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--Pressure is mounting on the 17 euro-zone nations to give their rescue fund more firepower at next week's meeting of finance ministers.

At least 15 people have been killed in an explosion in a bus in north-western Pakistan, police say. The blast happened inside the van in Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - A medical center spokeswoman says former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver has been hospitalized outside Washington.

People at a cafe in southern Beirut watched a speech on Sunday by Hassan Nasrallah that seemed aimed at defusing tensions. By ANTHONY SHADID and NADA BAKRI BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah's leader warned Sunday that his Shiite Muslim movement would defend ...

WASHINGTON - Red flags that went unheeded before the Arizona shooting tragedy have exposed a gaping hole in the US mental health care system, experts and lawmakers say.

The oil company formerly run by imprisoned oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has fired off a warning to BP shareholders, saying their deal with the Kremlin is founded on “illegal auctions, bogus bankruptcy fire sales and expropriations”.

Stuxnet, the game-changing computer worm that is believed to have significantly set back Tehran's progress in nuclear enrichment, may herald a new era of shadowy digital combat.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (AP) - The top cat at this year's Miss'd America pageant is the leopard print-clad Kitty Hiccups. Hiccups, also known as 32-year-old David Hyland, was crowned the 2011 Miss'd America on Sunday night at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic ...