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...

A woman from Staten Island has sued New York City for 900 trillion dollars for emotional and physical trauma, after a child services group removed her children from her custody and put them in foster...

Egypt has refused to backtrack in a row with the United States over its' onslaught on non-profit groups despite Washington's threat to cut aid.

The army is positioning more troops to reinforce the...

Several e-mails posted on the web site of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission show an agency struggling to figure out how to respond and deal with the American public while cutting through what...

America and Eurasia will crash into each other over the North Pole in 50-200 million years time, scientists have claimed.

According to scientists at Yale University, Africa and Australia will join...

Former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen has written a letter to the Pakistan Supreme Court to appear before the judicial commission investigating the Memo Gate scandal.

Meanwhile,...

Singer Nicole Scherzinger insists that she gave the job "110 per cent" effort and has "no regrets", post her departure from the U.S. TV talent show 'X Factor'.

The 'Don't Hold Your Breath' hitmaker...

A Chinese dad on a visit to New York made his 4-year-old son, dressed only in gym shoes and a pair of yellow underpants, run and do push-ups in the snow to develop a "masculine temperament". shocking...

Al-Qaeda is currently at "its weakest state" since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, a top security adviser of Britain's Home Office has said.

Charles Farr, the Home...

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...

Nicole Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton seem to have reignited their romance after they were spotted holding hands following a late night dinner date in Los Angeles earlier this week.

Just four months...

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...

The Human Rights Watch has called on the United States to pressure the Pakistan government to curb crimes in Balochistan province, including extra-judicial killings, torture, illegal detention,...

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...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday met with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, who is visiting Washington for talks on his country's post-earthquake reconstruction efforts.

The...

One of the top U.S. commanders in Afghanistan is defending the progress coalition troops are making in Afghanistan, after a U.S. Lieutenant Colonel publicly countered U.S. assertions the allied...

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...

The U.S. State Department's Acting deputy spokesman Mark Toner has said that the Pakistan Supreme Court's decision to possibly convict Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on February 13 is their...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly tried to thwart the most focused U.S. effort to begin peace talks with the Taliban, observers have said.

Though Karzai has repeatedly declared that his...

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,...

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...

Clinton, N.C. - Police said Wednesday that they have charged a Sampson County store owner with selling fake urine for people to pass drug tests, as well as prescription drugs from out of the...

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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...

CHICAGO -; Chicago has axed the winning design for its 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker, contending some may believe it depicts street gang signs. Chicago requires residents with vehicles to...

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....