WASHINGTON - Amid an escalated tension threatening a nuclear conflict between the two nations, US President Barack Obama has said he did not believe Israel had decided on an attack on Iran to disrupt...

DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country.

The...

NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod.

Currently...

Ricky Martin, who is in New York these days getting ready for his return to the Broadway stage, will play a Spanish teacher in a popular television series "Glee".

Martin will play David Martinez, a...

President Barack Obama is preferred by 52 percent of Americans compared with 43 percent who favour Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, a Washington Post-ABC News...

US President Barack Obama has ordered the freezing of Iran's property under American jurisdiction, including that of the country's central bank, the White House said.

The US and its allies are...

A Mysore-born Indian public affairs specialist has been charged with revitalising the Muslim Public Service Network (MPSN) that grooms young American Muslims for public service and to take on civic...

American aid to Egypt, which is estimated at an average of two billion dollars a year, is reportedly in peril with U.S. lawmakers threatening to block assistance in response to Egypt's crackdown on...

Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders believes that the American economy is improving, and the potential for giving jobs to the unemployed is getting stronger.

"Its pretty close...

A Mysore-born Indian American public affairs specialist has been charged with revitalising the Muslim Public Service Network that grooms young American Muslims for public service and to take on civic...

British Olympic boxing medallist Amir Khan recently took his fiancee Faryal Makhdoom for a tour of his hometown Bolton, England.

Last month, Makhdoom had showed him around her native New York.

The...

The New York Giants have won their second Super Bowl title in four years and fourth overall after beating the New England Patriots in the final.

The Giant's Eli Manning engineered a nine-play,...

Gerard Depardieu will star as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film by US director Abel Ferrara about the New York sex scandal that caused the former IMF chief to resign.

Ferrera met Depardieu, 63, at...

In a tell-all memoir, President John F Kennedy's teenage mistress describes how she lost her virginity to the former U.S. President when he seduced her in his wife's bedroom following a pool party...

Egypt will prosecute 44 non-governmental organization workers, including 19 American nationals, on charges of allegedly receiving foreign funds illegally and being involved in banned activities in...

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON - Candidate committees can rack up cash in a hurry, especially during a high stakes race. And provisions in election law allow campaigns to invest...

WASHINGTON - Perhaps the most attention-getting Super Bowl ad -- other than that dog blackmailing his owner with tortilla chips to keep quiet over a felinicide, of course -- was Clint Eastwood's...

In this Aug. 19, 2011 photo, Josh Powell plays with his son Braden in a park near his home, in Puyallup, Wash. Powell had long been a person of interest in his wife's disappearance from their...

MINNEAPOLIS -; A Somali-American man admitted Monday that he helped raise money so others could travel from Minnesota to join the terror group al-Shabab in Somalia, and that he sent money to Somalia...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -; A federal judge has ordered the return of a 16th Century Baroque painting depicting Christ carrying the cross to the heirs of a Jewish man who died shortly before the German...

In this Aug. 19, 2011 photo, Josh Powell plays with his son Braden in a park near his home, in Puyallup, Wash. Powell had long been a person of interest in his wife's disappearance from their...

FILE - This file photo released on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, by the Anaheim Police Dept. shows Itzcoatl Ocampo. Southern California prosecutors say Ocampo, already accused of killing four homeless...

This photo taken Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, shows artist and free speech blogger Christopher Drew in his studio in Chicago. Drew was charged under the Illinois eavesdropping law on Dec. 2, 2009, after...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -; The main Atlantic City casino workers union ratified a new contract Monday night with the Golden Nugget Atlantic City. Workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the deal....

GOLD BEACH, Ore. -; In a Feb. 5 story about the rescue of three family members lost while mushroom picking, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the helicopter pilot who found them had...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas -; Officials at Big Bend National Park in West Texas are looking for a mountain lion that attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy as he walked with three other people. ...

This advertisement provided by Chrysler Group LLC, shows actor Clint Eastwood, featured in an ad titled "It's Halftime In America," which aired during Super Bowl XVLI, Sunday, Feb. 5,...

GRAHAM, Wash. -- Josh Powell's boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make.He boxed up their books and toys and took them to a charity. He carried heavy cans of gasoline...

A federal judge Friday slapped a Miami River shipping company with a $1 million fine and five years of probation for oil pollution and other environmental...

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973 Arab oil embargo triggered a...

US air traffic control system from radar to one based on GPS technology and to open US skies to unmanned drone flights within four years received final congressional approval...

Follow @mpoindc President Obama's re-election campaign made an about-face late Monday in its opposition to super PACs, encouraging donors to send their unlimited contributions to one such group...

By NBC's Garrett Haake CENTENNIAL, CO - Mitt Romney injected himself into a battle between religious groups and the Obama administration on Monday night, calling a new requirement that health...

GOLDEN, Colo. -- Rick Santorum is fighting back after a barrage of attacks from rival Mitt Romney ahead of three primary season contests that could give the former Pennsylvania senator his best day...

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker, is not for prevarication and so his response to a direct question from The Independent last night was yes and immediately. Or at least upon his being inaugurated as...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. -- An American substitute teacher learned a hard - and costly - lesson when she took a wrong turn in the Michigan Sault and ended up at the Canadian border. Shelly Hamlin was...

Jeremy Lin parlayed his first career start into 28 points and eight assists Monday, sparking the New York Knicks to a 97-88 victory over Utah. Lin helped fill in the gaps for the Knicks as they...

February 6, 2012 Not only was Obama's appointment of Richard Cordray to the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional, but the newly minted federal leviathan itself...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a $63 billion bill on Monday that funds U.S. aviation programs for four years and authorizes new steps for the government to modernize the air traffic...

The New York Giants on Tuesday will be showered with confetti and greeted by throngs as they are feted with the city’s most storied honor: a parade through its Canyon of...

An article in Tuesday’s issue of The Times reports that New York City’s plans for a parade to celebrate the Giants’ Super Bowl victory have upset some returned Iraq veterans, who...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Latin American currencies are on fire across the region. The Colombian peso, the Mexican peso and the Brazilian real are some of the strongest global currencies against...

NEW YORK -- Mike D'Antoni shook his fists in the air as Jeremy Lin's clutch shot fell through the net. It wasn't just the basket that had D'Antoni giddy. It's the feeling...

American Apparel Inc. reported strong preliminary sales for January. The retailer, known for colorful basics and racy ads, said total sales last month rose 14% from a year earlier to $41.4...