With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking...

The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment...

The wife of US Senate Majority Leader...

US President Barack Obama has donated the $1.4 million that came with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the White House said...

Extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani military in the ongoing fight with insurgents have further added to human rights concerns in the country, the US State Department said...

American singer Lady Gaga has no boundaries on her relationships and says she won't mind falling in love with a...

President Barack Obama has delegated his authority to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to send mandatory certifications regarding the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal to the US Congress after every six...

United States President Barack Obama has appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the new certification authority to verify the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement after every six...

Jamie Jungers, who has won Howard Stern's Tiger Woods' mistress beauty pageant, has revealed that the golfer never tipped waitstaff when they were...

Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, have collaborated on a fashion line for teenage girls that debuts this August exclusively at...

Mariah Carey has never met director Woody Allen, but she plans to work with him some...

American supermarket chain Walmart has received flak for selling black Barbie dolls at a lesser price than white...

Rapper Jay-Z is said to have scrapped plans to invest in a racetrack casino project in New York after state officials allegedly ordered all backers to hand over detailed records of their...

American scientists have developed a new nitric oxide-releasing cloth that may come handy in making a wrap for donor organs and therapeutic socks for...

A new American study has suggested new ways to improve heart...

The report regarding Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani extending the tenure of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General (DG) Lt.Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha by a year clearly suggests that nothing much has changed in the country and two still rule the...

An American man has earned himself a Guinness World Record after he built the world's largest ever house of...

The Pennsylvania woman linked this week to an alleged terrorist plot involving militant Muslims was not known in her neighbourhood for her extreme religious...

An average woman will spend 13,000 dollars on makeup during her lifetime, a new survey has...

A constant gum-chewing habit can cause wrinkles to pop up, health experts...

Manoranjan 'Mano' Misra, an Indian American professor known for turning coffee grounds and chicken feathers into fuel, been honoured as the 2010 Regents' Researcher by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of...

Indians Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal figured among world's top ten billionaires as Mexican tycoon Carlo Slim Helu beat Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on...

Federal prosecutors in the US have charged the owner of a California restaurant over alleged sales of whale meat, which was labelled...

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 per cent over the last...

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 6:54 p.m. Add American Airlines boarding passes to the list of paperless services consumers can use to simplify their lives. Travelers flying out of Lindbergh Field can...

(Thursday, March 11th) Final Score: Western Michigan 69, Central Michigan 60 Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - David Kool led all scorers with 26 points, as Western Michigan held on for a 69-60 win...

BUENA, N.J. — A New Jersey official says a suspected terrorist who worked at a complex of nuclear power plants did not breach security there. Mike Drewniak, a spokesman for Gov. Chris...

HAMMOND, Ind. — A federal judge has ordered a former northern Indiana mayor and two ex-aides to pay $108 million in civil damages in an alleged sidewalks-for-votes scheme. U.S. District...

TRENTON, N.J. — Authorities say three people were fatally struck by trains in New Jersey and New York. The first death occurred in Mercer County in New Jersey on Thursday morning when...

In this 2009 photo provided by the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District, Candice Berner, an Alaska special education teacher, holds up crab caught on a school district outing. Autopsy results...

TRENTON, N.J. — Two people have been struck and killed by trains in separate accidents in New Jersey. The first death occurred in Mercer County on Thursday morning when Amtrak's Keystone...

NEW ORLEANS — An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for...

This undated photo provided March 10, 2010 by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Joshua Maxwell. Maxwell is scheduled to be executed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Huntsville, Texas,...

SAN FRANCISCO — More than two-dozen drug-related cases were dismissed in San Francisco courtrooms for a second day following allegations that a longtime lab technician stole cocaine evidence...

After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to...

(AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESThis 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking...

California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday...

(AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in...

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,Ffile)File - In this June 14, 2004 file photo, Michael Newdow looks down at the fax copy of the Supreme Court's ruling preserving the phrase "one nation under God" in the...

(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)FILE - This April 24, 2005, file photo shows Darrent Williams smiling as he holds a Denver Broncos' jersey bearing his name during a news conference at the team's...

(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)FILE - In this June 24, 2007, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., right, and his wife Landra Reid attend an event at Ford's Theater in Washington. A...

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Clarissa Martinez de Castro, with the National Council of La Raza, center, talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010,...

Federal regulators expanded their efforts Thursday to go after children's jewelry that has high levels of the toxic metal cadmium by telling parents to throw away "Rudolph the Red-Nosed...

New York City has agreed to pay up to US$657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers who say they were sickened by World Trade Centre dust. The...