US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the south of Afghanistan after touching down on...

Miami police swooped on the main airport on Friday when screeners detected a suspicious article in a checked...

Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said it is time to finalize a deal on the Middle East peace...

A US general has revealed the Taliban in Afghanistan are very short of money with their drug labs and supply routes under pressure from US...

A seven-month-old baby died after doctors at a hospital in the US flushed his system with alcohol instead of saline solution during a heart...

Seven out of ten New Yorkers participating in a New York poll, want the proposed Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated away from Ground Zero in Lower...

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has prevented a conventional war with India, ensuring 'our survival, our security, and our sovereignty', besides making the 'nation walk with head held high', boasts A.Q. Khan, the disgraced scientist considered the father of Islamabad's clandestine nuclear...

Two-thirds of New York City residents want a controversial Muslim community centre and mosque to be relocated farther away from the site of 9/11 terrorist attack, according to a New York Times...

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has lashed out at reporters who write about her using anonymous sources, branding them 'impotent' and...

People who believe in fate and destiny tend to dump superstition when faced with the death, says a recent...

Socialite Kim Kardashian has stunned her fans after posing with two nude men for a magazine photo shoot. She describes it as one of her most risque covers to...

Actor Ashton Kutcher is reportedly threatening to sue the editors of a US tabloid for defamation, following an article they published suggesting he had been cheating on his wife Demi...

Despite reports from the US Thursday that initial jobless claims fell to 472,000 last week and pending home resales were up 5.2 per cent in July, Canada's top Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank said the economic recovery in North America is slipping after positive hints four months...

American singer Katy Perry says she will apply to become a citizen of the UK as soon as she weds Russell...

The US brokered Middle East peace talks here have not only led to promises of a second round of negotiations Sep 14-15, but also opened the possibility of a third round later this month, according to media...

India's Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said here Thursday that India and a trade bloc of South American countries have agreed to expand a trade...

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has prevented a conventional war with India and made the 'nation walk with heads held high', boasts notorious Pakistani scientist A Q Khan, considered the father of Islamabad's clandestine nuclear weapons...

An offshore oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Coast Guard...

Three people were killed in a small plane crash Thursday in a lagoon in the US state of California, authorities...

Another Gulf coast rig has caught fire, causing the United States Coast Guard to scramble into...

Rapper Sean Combs aka P. Diddy is being sued for $12 million by a former employee for age...

Results Thursday at the 23-million-dollar US...

Hurricane Earl threatened to bring a violent end to the summer high season on the US Atlantic coast as tourists evacuated beach resorts in North Carolina and storm preparations were underway Thursday along most of the Eastern...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to a one-year time-frame for reaching a peace agreement, the special US envoy to the region, George Mitchell, said...

Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake, an estimated 1.3 million Haitians are still living in temporary shelters while the country struggles with reconstruction and rebuilding a government, the United Nations said Thursday in an updated...

Serena Williams has revealed that she underwent surgery to repair a lacerated tendon near her big toe to avoid a lifetime with a 'droopy'...

Members of American hard rock band Guns N' Roses stormed off the stage after their fans threw bottles at them for turning up more than an hour...

The International Monetary Fund Thursday pledged $450 million in emergency loans to Pakistan to help the country cope with a massive flood...

With 39 Indian companies making it to the Forbes 'Asia's Best Under a Billion' list, up from only 20 last year, India was the biggest gainer as the region grew at 'blistering rates' after the global economic...

An armed man who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters and was killed by police after a tense four-hour standoff told a TV channel that he had bombs strapped on 'ready to go...

A North Carolina woman was found shot dead by her ex-boyfriend after she recently announced her engagement to another man on...

A Manhattan court has brushed aside claims by a lawyer that letting women past the velvet rope for free or half price on "Ladies Nights" violates the...

Popstar Lady Gaga has morphed into a risque Lady Liberty for the cover shoot of the new issue of V Magazine in a lacy black bra and...

American artist Lady Gaga has revealed that she wants to get ordained so she can marry gay fans on...

Ponzi schemer Ken Starr's stripper wife, Diane Passage, has claimed that Wesley Snipes' private eyes have been stalking her in a bid to find evidence to clear the actor of tax...

India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus advanced to the men's doubles second round at the US Open tennis...

Joe Manganiello has revealed that he had once checked his car for tracking devices that was possibly left by...

Tiger Woods has reportedly not moved into the downtown Manhattan apartment on Hudson...

Kim Cattrall of 'Sex and the City' fame has revealed that she is not size zero like her other co-stars in the...

Catherine Zeta-Jones has been angered by a medical diagnosis of her husband, Michael Douglas, in which he was told he has stage four cancer of the...

A New York man has survived after plunging from the rooftop of a 40 storey...

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn shows off the Veteran's Cash scratch-off lottery ticket, the Stars & Stripes, in Springfield, Ill. Two weeks before Gov. Pat Quinn is...

Robert Arnold looks on as his wife Deanna holds a rooster on their farm, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Garrison, Iowa. The two former workers at Wright County Egg facilities said they reported problems...

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File June This bust of dictator Josef Stalin sits at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford. The 2.5 million-member American Legion expressed its displeasure Thursday with the placement of a bust...

MIAMI -- Federal officials say a passenger has been taken into custody after screeners detected something suspicious in a checked bag at Miami International Airport.A statement by the Transportation...

PHOENIX — The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing a package of business tax breaks — potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars — to spur hiring and to combat Republican...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks to the media after learning the U.S. Justice Department is suing Arpaio saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an...