Bishop Eddie Long speaks during a 2009 funeral service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga. (John Bazemore) By Nia-Malika Henderson and Krissah Thompson Bishop Eddie L. Long built a religious empire just outside Atlanta by preaching ...

There can never have been such a nervous coronation. After Ed Miliband had won, he looked sombre, as well he might. By Andrew Gimson He had worked with ruthless skill for this moment, and had expected to feel so happy, but when the moment of victory ...

Debbie Styron, 57, of Deer Park, gives of a bag of prescription drugs on Saturday to Stephanie Eguia and Sanjay Gupta at a drug take-back site in Pasadena.

NEWARK, NJ - New Jersey has already thrown enough money at its largest school district to make it among the nation's best-funded, yet it remains in the pits.

by AP Enlarge AP A Pakistan International Airlines airplane at Manchester Airport Manchester, England, Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. The aircraft was held earlier in the day in Stockholm when Swedish police evacuated the plane carrying 273 people and ...

Texas is in the postseason for the first time since 1999; the NL races remain wild. The Texas Rangers ended the franchise's decade-long playoff drought Saturday, beating the Oakland Athletics 4-3 to clinch the American League West.

Aaron Sorkin joined Facebook as part of his research for "The Social Network," a movie, directed by David Fincher, about the stormy beginnings of the social-networking site.

Despite a somewhat tepid reception last year for an earlier version of the iPhone, customers in China turned out in force Saturday to try to get their hands on the latest incarnation, the iPhone 4, as it made its debut in the country.

In Washington, a new advocacy group decries 'the tyranny of hyperpartisanship.' And powerful New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg throws his support behind candidates willing to reach across the aisle.

The nation's No. 1 team rallied from 13 points down in the third quarter to beat Arkansas 24-20 before a record crowd at Razorback Stadium.

NEW ORLEANS - The administrator of the fund for gulf oil spill victims said people should start getting bigger payments faster. Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Coast Claims Facility administrator, said he was responding to criticism.

AP The noise was everywhere for Boise State. The Broncos faced another so-called statement game on national television, this time with the pregame show held right on their blue turf.

SRINAGAR, India - The hardline separatist leader who has organised months of protests in Indian Kashmir dismissed Sunday an offer from the India government for fresh talks and a security review in the state.

DENVER (Reuters) - Troy Tulowitzki drove in five runs as the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 10-9 in a 10-inning slugfest of 32 total hits and five home runs.

The Defense Intelligence Agency has blocked a book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called "Able Danger.

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts who lived on the International Space Station for 176 days touched down safely in Kazakhstan on Saturday.

Republican candidate for US Senate Carly Fiorina answers a question as she and US Sen. Barbara Boxer participate in a debate on the Saint Mary's College campus in Moraga, Calif,.

Oliver Stone never met an easy-to-grasp visual metaphor he couldn't shamelessly exploit. That probably explains why there are multiple shots of children blowing bubbles in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.