No more Ben Affleck jokes. No "Ben Afflecktion," or quacking his last name in the voice of an insurance-company duck. No South Park episodes where the actor falls in love with Eric Cartman's hand puppet, ...

ARLINGTON - The Cowboys on Sunday played with a lead for the first time this season. The sheer giddiness of those intoxicating 95 seconds overwhelmed them.

Discuss with interested patients that a recent genetic study indicates that five specific chromosomal abnormalities associated with one region on chromosome 19 appear to distinguish BRCA1 gene carriers ...

The Dolphins' defense scored a touchdown, forced four turnovers, stopped the Vikings three times fourth downs and made life miserable for Brett Favre as Miami's offense did just enough to win the game.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke pulled out all the stops to avert a depression last year. Now he and his colleagues must decide how to respond to the risk of a growth recession ...

AP By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer Indianapolis Colts running back Donald Brown scores a touchdown against the New York Giants in the first quarter of an NFL football game in Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept.

The US government has declared the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused the biggest oil spill in American history, "effectively dead" after a final plug of cement was pumped in.

In any athletic contest, winning teams play their own game and force the other side to play that game, too. The same being true in elections, it's remarkable how timidity leads Democrats to fight this year's campaign on Republican ...

Hossein Fatemi/AP By ALISSA J. RUBIN KABUL, Afghanistan - The farmers in Nagahan, a village in Kandahar Province, lined up early to cast their votes on Saturday, but there were no ballots and no ballot boxes, making the election seem a cruel joke.

By Nathan Denette, The Canadian Press, via AP By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY The film that caught everyone's attention and took the People's Choice award on Sunday at the 35th Toronto Film Festival was The King's Speech, a drama about the relationship ...

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Fierce waves pounded Bermuda's breakwaters and shores Sunday night, straining yacht moorings and battering oceanfront hotels as a weakened Hurricane Igor lashed the wealthy British enclave.

Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher lifted QB Vince Young during a 19-11 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, but said afterward that should not be considered a sign that Young's job is in jeopardy.

Stockholm, Sweden (CNN) -- Sweden's ruling center-right coalition won re-election Sunday, marking a historic moment as a non-socialist government was elected to a second term for the first time in the country's political history.

Actors Javier Bardem (L), Julia Roberts (2nd L), Richard Jenkins (2nd R) and executive producer Ryan Murphy pose during the launch of their movie ''Eat Pray Love'' in Cancun June 29, 2010.

TOKYO - What started nearly two weeks ago with the Japanese Coast Guard's arrest of a Chinese trawler captain in disputed waters has snowballed into a heated diplomatic standoff between China and Japan, ...

Microsoft's week saw the unveiling of Internet Explorer 9, developer tools for Windows Phone 7, and the rebranding of its Office Communications software.

Spiriva, a drug that is already widely used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, can provide significant relief of symptoms for adult asthmatics who have difficulty obtaining relief with other drugs, ...

Canada's two largest wireless carriers, Rogers and Bell, will soon offer the Samsung Galaxy Tab to their customers, according to Samsung.