MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Annual flu shots may protect against heart attacks, and the earlier in the season a shot is given the greater the protection, a new British study claims.

Photo: AP Just a few days after Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, there is a call for an independent investigation into just what went on.

After pleading guilty to two misdemeanor charges in her cocaine possession case, Paris Hilton boarded a private jet for parts unknown today.

The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback situation has been nothing short of bizarre this season. Just two games in, they had to resort to their fourth-string signal-caller -- Charlie Batch, who was expected to be released by the end of the preseason ...

'I'm definitely involved in the design, the colors, textures, cuts,' former 'Hills' star tells MTV News. By Kara Warner (@karawarner) If her enthusiastic Twitter feed is any indication, Audrina Patridge and partner Tony Dovolani (also an avid tweeter) ...

As the author of the European parliament's midterm review on the millennium development goals, I congratulate you for your special report on the MDGs (14 September) and welcome the launch of your website's global development section, which reflects the ...

RALEIGH, NC (AP) -There might be a surprise contender in the Atlantic Coast Conference: North Carolina State. After breezing through three nonconference games, the Wolfpack (3-0) have joined Boston College as the only unbeaten teams in the wide-open ...

The company that produces a genetically altered salmon dubbed "FrankenFish" by critics, faces one of its biggest challenges this week as it attempts to get the fish approved to eventually hit US food markets.

Mark Hurd, who left his post at HP Aug. 6 after the company said he violated standards of business conduct, is now co-president at Oracle.

STOCKHOLM - Worthy, high-minded and often utterly predictable, Swedish politics has rarely offered much by way of excitement. Now an electoral earthquake seems to have changed all that.

IRVING, Texas -- There was no card playing or loud talking at Valley Ranch on Monday. The Dallas Cowboys have no time for games and laughter.

Walk down any street in America and you will see one of two kinds of people: people who pay federal income taxes and those who don't.

Google, while celebrating 30 million people having signed up to its cloudy documents service, has announced that editing will soon come to mobile users.

Just when the Deepwater Horizon stopped leaking oil into the Gulf, costing BP $8 billion in direct cost and $70 billion in lost market capitalization so far, another platform owned by another company caught fire and exploded.

AP ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable says he has a good idea of who will start at quarterback this week but isn't ready to announce it.

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--US stocks rallied to their highest level in more than four months as encouraging financial and home-builder earnings boosted confidence in the economic recovery.

Is obesity contagious? The surprising news that some obese children are more apt to carry a common cold virus than slimmer children has many people wondering.

LOS ANGELES - "The Town" made off with $23.8 million in its opening weekend to take the No. 1 spot at the box office. The Warner Bros.