NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--US stocks closed slightly lower Thursday despite an encouraging round of economic data as investors moved to lock in gains from a strong year that sent the market to two-year highs ...

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a blunt warning Thursday to followers of Ivory Coast's defeated president to back down from a threat to attack a UN-protected facility housing the country's internationally ...

The 'tea party'-backed Senate candidate from Delaware calls a federal inquiry a 'thug-politic tactic.' By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times Christine O'Donnell, who was backed by the conservative "tea party" movement in her unsuccessful bid for a ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fans disappointed that "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi will not be placed in a large ball and dropped from a building during MTV's New Year's Eve bash from Times Square can rest easy.

The certificate of election declaring Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) the winner of the 2010 Senate race is seen in this handout photograph released by the Governor's office December 30, 2010, in Juneau, Alaska.

By Sports Network The New York Jets have reportedly been fined $100000 by the league for the tripping incident involving coach Sal Alosi against the Dolphins earlier this month.

The number of emergency-room visits caused by underage drinking swells more than 250 percent on New Year's Day, according to a federal government study.

If Microsoft decides to boost its smartphone position with a major acquisition, it should buy Nokia, not Research in Motion. Some would argue that Nokia isn't really a smartphone maker and Symbian isn't really a smartphone OS, and that RIM would be a ...

Raz B is lashing back at Chris Brown ... insisting yesterday's explosive Twitter incident was "not about receiving attention" -- as Brown insisted -- but was about standing up for what he felt was "right.

However, it appears to be more of a sign of things to come rather than a serious threat to US Android users. Dubbed Geinimi (a scrambulation of Gemini) by Lookout Mobile Security, a startup based in San Francisco, the botnet-like Trojan sends location ...

Health secretary Andrew Lansley was tonight under pressure to get a grip on the winter flu outbreak, amid warnings that millions more people need to be vaccinated in order to prevent a mounting toll of deaths.

Today Skype released a new version of its popular iPhone application that adds video calling support. After testing out many other lackluster video calling applications for smartphones, we were unsure whether Skype would get it right.

NEW YORK Dec 30 (Reuters) - Facebook surpassed Google for the first time as the most visited website in the United States for most of 2010.

'I wish nothing but the best for the mother of my children,' actor says of his ex's engagement to agent Jim Toth. By Kara Warner (@karawarner) Just because Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon didn't make it as a married couple doesn't mean that they ...

One could breathe a sigh of relief after Moshe Katsav was convicted; the prosecution did not frame, the media did not tell tales and the public did not lynch; the judges carried out their task.

Relatives of the fifth grade boy who was found dead and burned beyond recognition say that they have no idea who the woman is that police have charged with the child's murder.

Three are charged in Denmark with attempted terrorism for an alleged plot against a newspaper office and another is held in Sweden.

The five juniors suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season pledged to return for their senior seasons, coach Jim Tressel told the media Thursday.