Republicans are poised to retake the US House next week without a mandate from voters to carry out their policies, a Bloomberg National Poll shows.

The death of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner may strengthen the opposition before next year's presidential elections as his wife and successor, Cristina Fernandez de ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Vikings quarterback Brett Favre said yesterday he wants to play Sunday against the Patriots [team stats], even though he's got an ankle that would keep most people far away from a football field.

The mystery woman who locked herself naked in a Plaza hotel bathroom during bad-boy actor Charlie Sheen's coke-fueled frenzy was identified as a smokin' hot porn star from New York City.

Aerial images from the tsunami-hit Mentawai Islands in Indonesia have revealed the extent of destruction, as officials raised the death toll to 311.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The foreclosure crisis intensified across a majority of large US metropolitan areas this summer, with Chicago and Seattle - cities outside of the states that have shouldered the worst of the housing downturn - seeing a sharp increase ...

Bryant, who had knee surgery in the off-season, played 37 minutes against the Rockets. After a slow start, he finished with 27 points on eight-of-20 shooting.

The federal government has ended an inquiry into a privacy breach involving Google's Street View service, satisfied with the company's pledge to stop gathering e-mail, passwords and other information from residential WiFi networks as it ...

By DAN JOLING AP © 2010 The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order stopping state elections officials from handing out names of write-in candidates at polling places.

Research hints at earlier opportunities to spot and treat the disease, which is fatal in 95% of cases. Genetic analysis of tumours by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Johns Hopkins University suggested the first mutations may happen 20 years ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The death toll from Haiti's spreading cholera epidemic topped 300 on Wednesday as fears over violence and fair voting clouded the path to elections next month which are seen as key to stability in the ...

The dollar declined to $1.3814 per euro as of 9:51 am in Tokyo from $1.3769 in New York yesterday, when it climbed to $1.3734, the highest level since Oct. 20.

SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) has declined to say whether its incoming chief executive, Leo Apotheker, will testify in a high-profile trade secrets case involving Oracle (ORCL.

Pity the poor women who have to trick themselves out in elaborate Lady Gaga costumes this Halloween. All guys have to do is grab a six-pack.

Deep in the red, News Corp.'s social-networking site gets a redesign. The "cool" factor is still to be determined By Andy Fixmer and Ronald Grover The numbers tell the tale of MySpace.

Search crews scouring a wooded area Wednesday found a prosthetic leg that could belong to Zahra Baker, the 10-year-old Hickory girl missing for almost three weeks and presumed dead.

Just hours after Billy Ray Cyrus filed for divorce ... his soon-to-be ex wife Tish was out in Los Angeles, getting some serious emotional support from her two kids.