FORT HOOD, Tex. - The first of dozens of witnesses to the 2009 massacre on this sprawling Army base gave chilling testimony on Wednesday in a pretrial hearing for Maj.

Not to be outdone by Warner Bros.' recent run of exciting superhero-movie news - Superman has a director, Tom Hardy might be in "Batman 3" - Sony has unveiled the identity of the villain in their upcoming "Spider-Man" ...

Google maintained its lead atop the search engine leaderboard for September, comScore found, with the combined Yahoo-Microsoft search partnership slipping a bit.

LOS ANGELES - More than half a dozen pornographers in California's multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry have halted production after an actor tested positive for HIV - and more shutdowns were expected.

So says David Arquette who's now apologizing for going public about his crumbling marriage and lack of sex with now-estranged wife Courteney Cox.

AOL Inc. and several private-equity firms are exploring making an offer to buy Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, devising a bold plan to marry two big Internet brands facing steep ...

Mahmoud fuelled his claims that the US government was behind the Sept 11 attack on America and demanded to 'know the truth of what happened' during his visit to Lebanon.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank shares have proved resilient despite the widening US foreclosure crisis, as investors view the growing furor over foreclosures as a procedural problem instead of a deeper issue of how homes are repossessed.

ATLANTA -- As Bobby Cox attempts to make the transition from legendary manager to retiree, he finds himself feeling essentially the same as he did at the end of that season that the city of Atlanta ...

Demonstrators wave flags and banners in front of the White House in Washington on October 11, 2009 as tens of thousands of gay activists marched to demand civil rights, a day after President Barack ...

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu offer to extend the moratorium on settlement construction - but only if the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

(CNN) -- Nearly six months after an explosion aboard an oil rig sent crude spewing from a BP-owned well deep below the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup work along the Gulf Coast is far from over.

By Sports Network Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre said Wednesday that he would consider missing a few games if the pain in his right elbow gets worse.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US drivers looking to save a few pennies per gallon on fuel will push retailers to sell gasoline with higher levels of ethanol, the chief executive of Poet, the largest US ethanol producer said.

Elderly people who get about by walking are less likely to suffer mental decline or even dementia, a study says. Brain scans revealed that older people walking between six and nine miles a week appeared to have more brain tissue in key areas.

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- French unions have called for public transport workers to strike for a third day today to pressure the government to drop plans to increase the retirement age, even as fewer employees stayed away from work ...

Armenian-American gangsters created a fictitious medical world, complete with fake doctors and fake patients, which they extended across the US in a scheme to defraud the Medicare system of more than $100m (£62.9m), federal prosecutors said yesterday.