In its attempt to lure younger viewers, the film academy forgoes a comedian host in favor of two actors with 'Saturday Night Live' credentials.

Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional US pressure tactics overseas.

The NFL fined Houston Texans WR Andre Johnson and Tennessee Titans CB Cortland Finnegan $25000 each on Monday for their fight in Sunday's game.

Two popular presidential candidates are said to be leading in the ballot count. Foreign diplomats hope the vote will produce a legitimate winner, preventing more violence.

President Obama on Monday announced a two-year pay freeze for most of the 1.9 million civilians who work for the federal government, as he tried to address concerns over a mushrooming deficit and placate Republicans who ...

AP MIAMI -- LeBron James and Erik Spoelstra had a pregame meeting Monday afternoon to talk about Miami's offensive woes. Early returns suggest it was a productive chat.

Fit and frisky and currently liked by 619920 people on his home page, George W. Bush dropped by Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters on Monday for a live Q&A with CEO Mark Zuckerberg to discuss his two-term presidency, promote his new book, ...

SINGAPORE, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The euro held near a two-month low on Tuesday and major stock indexes edged lower as fears that Ireland's fiscal problems could spread to more euro zone countries weighed on investor sentiment.

Filmmaker fondly recalls to The Hollywood Reporter the friend and actor who 'never broke character, never let on that he knew he was being funny.

Clinton and other officials shrug off the undiplomatic assessments revealed in the diplomatic cables, saying they won't affect long-term ties, even as they promise to tighten security and punish the leakers.

MONDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Eating disorders have risen steadily in children and teens over the last few decades, with some of the sharpest increases occurring in boys and minority youths, according to a new report.

Tehran today accused the west and Israel of dispatching a hit squad against its atomic programme, after an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and another injured in co-ordinated attacks.

Scientists in Boston have made an astounding discovery, taking aging mice and turning them young again, like tiny little Benjamin Buttons.

WASHINGTON - Global talks on climate change opened in Cancún, Mexico, on Monday with the toughest issues unresolved and little expectation of a breakthrough on shaping an international treaty to curb emissions of the heat-trapping ...

The first, shaky preview performance of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on Sunday is fast becoming theater lore, with tales of dangling performers suspended on wires for several awkward minutes as stagehands addressed technical ...

PC shipments are expected to grow about 14 percent in 2010, but the increasing popularity of tablets like the Apple iPad will likely take a bite out of PC sales in the coming years, according to data from Gartner.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp and Level 3 Communications, a key network partner of Netflix Inc, launched into a vicious public battle over fees Comcast is levying at Level 3 for delivering content such as movies to the cable ...

PGT: Albeit not single-handedly, Dustin Johnson contributed to the European Tour's unprecedented year when he blew two majors in 2010.