DENVER, Colorado - In a stunning upset, Republican hopeful Rick Santorum won in three major state caucuses, reviving his chances in the US presidential race and clouding front-runner Mitt Romney's...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least 10 suspected militants were killed in a pre-dawn US drone aircraft attack in a restive Pakistani tribal town, officials said Wednesday.

Missiles fired from a US drone...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo's chairman and three other board members have decided not to stand for re-election, giving in to the demands of its shareholders frustrated over the Internet company's declining...

MELBOURNE - Global mining major BHP Billiton is planning a rethink on its focus areas for investments including the American shale gas venture, with weakening global commodity prices pulling down the...

Shane Warne, who recently made headlines for his "metrosexual" makeover, made an unlikely appearance at the New York Fashion Week alongside Elizabeth Hurley and old pal Sarah Jessica Parker on...

John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as possible just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo, which subsequently made them illegal, it has been revealed.

The...

A senior US envoy scheduled to tour South Asia will make a stop in the Maldives Saturday, as the island nation is grappling with violence after a new president was sworn in, the State Department...

Argentine oil company YPF, a unit of Spain's Repsol-YPF, announced Wednesday that its investments in the South American country rose last year by 50 percent to a record 13.3 billion pesos ($3.06...

India underlined its commitment to implementing the landmark civil nuclear deal when Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai Wednesday met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and held a series of meetings...

A video clip of a four-year-old Chinese boy being forced to do push-ups, wearing just an underwear despite freezing temperature, on a road in the New York city of the US has evoked outrage.

Filmed...

A New York City startup has started tapping into the intense water pressure at treatment plants, reservoirs and factories, converting the excess into electricity.

The idea for the startup,...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is facing increased pressure in the United States after the FBI stepped-up its investigations into allegations of illegal bribing activity across the...

The Central Intelligence Agency is expected to maintain a large clandestine presence in Iraq and Afghanistan after the withdrawal of conventional U.S. troops as part of the Obama administration plan...

The Obama administration is reportedly sending a senior American military commander to Pakistan this month in what is being seen as a first step towards getting a strategic relationship that has been...

American authorities want to upgrade one of the charges against a former Indian-origin Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who has been accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter...

People of Boston are infuriated with Gisele Bundchen for slamming the New England Patriots team for their defeat at the hands of New York Giants in the Super Bowl.

After declaring that her husband,...

Scarlett Johansson co-hosted a fashion-themed fundraiser for Barack Obama's re-election in New York on Tuesday along with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

The 27-year-old actress, who traded...

Kate Winslet has revealed in an interview that she had trouble getting former President Bill Clinton to take part in her latest charity project.

Winslet, 36, asked various celebrities to be...

An American federal appeals court has rejected California's same-sex marriage ban, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown as early as next year.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S....

Actress Anne Hathaway and actor Adam Shulman threw an engagement party for family and friends in New York.

Hathaway joked that her beau ruined her plans to stay single.

"I am very much in love with...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Young housewives and older moms who bought assault rifles from Texas gun dealers are among nearly two dozen charged in an alleged weapons smuggling ring that armed Mexican cartels...

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Next The 254-173 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill that gives the president the line-item veto, or authority to pick out specific items in spending bills for elimination. A...

This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 by the Cole County sheriff's office shows Alyssa Bustamante. Bustamante, 18, who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl, was described as a thrill...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -; A Pennsylvania lawmaker convicted of corruption said Wednesday he will follow tradition and step down from the House of Representatives when he is sentenced, but a colleague said...

LOS ANGELES -; The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet...

MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. -; A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -; A Pennsylvania legislator is demanding the immediate resignation of fellow Democratic lawmaker who has been convicted on corruption charges. Rep. Babette Josephs of...

MINEOLA, N.Y. -; The owner of one of Long Island's largest catering companies has been accused of seriously violating Jewish law by having workers prepare kosher and non-kosher meals in the...

San Francisco is now in the decisive phase on hosting the America's Cup, a move that comes amid concern over the pace of fundraising to defray city costs and a fight over whether to include in...

WALSENBURG, Colo. -; One of the three Dougherty siblings accused in a multi-state crime spree has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, a spokesman for the Colorado court system said Wednesday. ...

FILE - This March 28, 2007 file photo shows tourists walking on the glass-bottomed Skywalk that extends 70 feet over the edge of Grand Canyon West's Eagle Point, in Arizona. A northwestern...

AKRON, Ohio -; There won't be a trial soon for an Ohio man suspected in the shooting deaths of three men lured to a rural area by bogus job listings on Craigslist. Fifty-two-year-old Richard...

FILE-This undated photo released by the Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Antun Lewis. Federal Judge Solomon Oliver in Ohio has granted a new trial for Antun Lewis, convicted in a...

WASHINGTON -; House Republicans put aside their usual antipathy toward President Barack Obama on Wednesday to give the president, and his successors, the line-item veto, a constitutionally...

American Standards are scheduled to perform on Sunday, February 12, at The Underground in Mesa. Hardcore bands are kind of like the Tea Party: Both have strong opinions and are keen on shoving...

February 8, 2012 at 3:44 pm 1)The Capitalistic system is THE Formula for a Disorganized Economy ! Hence it is Unpredictable in the medium ( one year ) and long term ( three years + ) , therefore I am...

Amid all the worry about how long it will take the economic recovery to kick into high gear, there's a little-noticed sector that's doing very well, thank you: American agriculture....

staff blog today, the company kicked off New York Fashion Week by announcing a partnership with Milk Studios to cover the event . The post was written was Matt Hackett, Tumblr’s former VP of...

February 8, 2012 A federal judge convicted a Chinese-born American Tuesday of stealing trade secrets but acquitted her of more serious charges of corporate espionage at a trial in Chicago that...

AFP/Getty Images January 2010: Muslim-Americans protest against terrorism outside a federal court building in Detroit, where "Christmas Day" bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being...

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich praised Minnesota Timberwolves’ rookie guard Rick Rubio’s rapid adjustment to NBA and American culture while criticising American arrogance and...

May 18, 2010: In the latest installment of the Made in America series, msnbc.com looks at how the Viking Range Corp. is vital to Greenwood, Miss.'s economy. John Makely...

A federal judge has dismissed an unprecedented lawsuit by an animal rights group seeking to grant constitutional protection against slavery to a group of orcas that perform at SeaWorld...

The Arab League suspended its Syria observation mission Saturday, saying it was too dangerous to continue, as battles between security and opposition forces raged just outside the capital,...

LEWISVILLE, Texas -- Friends recalled John and Wanda Casias as "spiritual soldiers" who gave their lives to God and hearts to Mexico, where the American missionaries were slain last...