AMMAN - Security forces killed 37 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents claimed, as the UN Security Council prepared to discuss Damascus later in the day ahead of a possible vote next...

SEOUL - The United States and South Korea are to hold annual military exercises on the Korean peninsula soon, the first since the recent change of leadership in North Korea.

There had been...

WASHINGTON - Faced with a budget cut of nearly $500 billion over 10 years, the United States has decided to trim its ground troops but will create a "cutting-edge force" for tactical operations to...

DAVOS - The web economy of the G20 is projected to reach $4.2 trillion in 2016 - nearly double the size of $2.3 trillion in 2010, according to a study by a global management consulting firm.

The...

New figures suggest that Mail Online has beaten the New York Times website as the most visited newspaper site on the web.

According to figures from tracking firm comScore, UK's Daily Mail had 45.35...

American intelligence agency FBI is reportedly developing new software to scan social networks Twitter and Facebook to look for emerging threats and predict crimes.

The FBI has asked technology...

An American woman made a startling revelation when she said how her breast implants saved her from being killed by a jealous lover.

The 41-year-old woman was stabbed repeatedly in the chest by a...

Seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material 'scraped' from social networks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants an application that provides information about possible...

American billionaire Bill Gates has called for raising taxes in the country, and feels the rich people should swallow a larger burden of the tax hike.

"Even as the economy improves and you end the...

When it comes to having an affair, married women would prefer New York Giant quarterback Eli Manning over Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, a survey found.

About 54 percent of the women polled...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reiterated that she is ready to quit American politics.

Speaking at a town hall meeting with State Department employees, Clinton said she is ready to step...

Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai starrer 'Guzaarish' - meaning 'request' in English - is set for a Peru release in February this year, as Bollywood looks towards newer markets.

'Guzaarish' deals...

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden has been known in the past to commit to verbal gaffes and for upsetting the Indian American community.

It did so again in New Hampshire on Thursday, when he adopted...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has made clear that she won't be serving in a second Obama term if there is one, is ready to step off "the high wire of American politics".

Clinton told State...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her State Department employees that she was ready to be out of the public eye.

"I think after 20 years - and it will be 20 years - of being on the high...

The Somali government says it supports the U.S. military operation that freed two Western aid workers who had been held hostage in the war-ravaged country.

In a statement released Thursday,...

Outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh remains in the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman and it is unclear when his planned trip to the United States for medical treatment will take place.

An...

The remaining GOP candidates don't agree on much, but they have found common ground on one thing: less government involvement in the housing market. ...

cheating on SAT tests a felony in his state. The legislation is specifically targeted at those impersonating other test takers for pay and would call for photo identification of each student, and...

Tim Thomas's recent, very public White House snub is not just tiresome or sanctimonious or overwrought (though it is). It underscored a distressing trend in this country: people have lost the...

Amidst all the hoopla surrounding the Federal Reserve's announcement yesterday of long term policy, the Fed statement was very clear that the relevant measure is the deflator for personal...

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Michigan's Al Glick Field House, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) -...

FILE - New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and son Greg attend the New York City Police Foundations 31st Annual Gala in New York, in this March 3, 2009 file photo. Kelly, son of the city...

NEW YORK -; Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly doesn't plan to discuss questions about his TV host son who has been accused of rape. Kelly's chief spokesman Paul Browne said the...

Anti-Syrian regime protesters wave Syrian revolution flags and chant slogans during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Deir Baghlaba area in Homs province, central Syria, on...

WASHINGTON -; The Pentagon's decision to cut the size of the Army by 80,000 soldiers will force the military to rely more on the National Guard and reserves, particularly if the U.S. gets into...

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, Colton Harris-Moore, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," glances at the courtroom gallery as he walks to the defense table, in Island County...

In this police booking photo released by Weber County Sheriff's Dept. showing Dallin Morgan, 18, a high school student who was arrested with another student on Wednesday Jan. 25,2012 on...

PITTSBURGH -; A World War II veteran from Pittsburgh has at long last received a Purple Heart - 70 years after he was wounded in the Battle of Okinawa. Aaron Narvol was awarded the medal...

----- This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Jan. 29, 1862: Lincoln's Special War Order No. 1. On Jan. 30, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues Special War Order No. 1...

ROCHESTER, N.H. -; An elementary school principal in New Hampshire jumped into a frozen river to save a 10-year-old student who fell through the ice. Firefighters say that because of Principal...

In other news Thursday, captors in Somalia threatened to kill an American hostage if the United States attempts to free him. The warning followed a Navy SEAL raid that rescued another American and a...

An Oregon man raced along the rain-swollen Clackamas River but couldn't keep up with his 6-year-old daughter who had fallen into the stream and was swept downriver, authorities...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- A Montana precious metals mine received 27 citations in recent safety inspections triggered by the death of a worker.The Mine Safety and Health Administration says 11 of the...

With more construction projects, like apartments and commercial developments, going up, Miami-Dade’s building industry is inching closer to a rebound. Hiring losses have lasted four years - and...

Friday27 January 20127:48 a.m. The U.S. economy grew at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year, the fastest growth in 2011. Americans spent more on cars and trucks, and...

American Riviera Bank (OTC BB: ARBV.OB) announced unaudited net income of $3,404,000 ($1.35 per share) for the year ended December 31, 2011; compared to $1,024,000 ($0.41 per share) for the year...

Cindy Ramos-Davidson, CEO of the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' El Paso branch, and El Paso...

. There are those who love it and those who hate it - and that's always been the case. Author Teresa Carpenter scoured numerous diaries and journals throughout history and found many views of...

Seattle comes in at number two on the new list released by Central Connecticut State University, while Bakersfield, Calif. is ranked as the least literate city in...

A new study about the prevalence of oral HPV infection in the U.S. population may help health experts understand why rates of oropharyngeal cancer have skyrocketed in recent...

Bank of America is temporarily stopping all of its mortgage refinancing activity that allows homeowners to convert equity in their homes to...

Romney had a strong night … Santorum may have won the debate … But that only helps Romney … All three Republicans are a net-negative in NBC/WSJ poll. … Romney’s...

By Michael O'Brien, msnbc.com A controversy between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) and President Obama stemming from her confrontation of the president on an airport tarmac streteched into another...

By The Associated Press Rick Santorum is tired, almost broke - and going home.The former Pennsylvania senator is leaving Florida just days before the Tuesday primary that even he expects to deal him...

By The Associated Press Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a "ghetto language." Close, but not quite.Gingrich denies doing so and said he merely promoted the use of...