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...

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...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday paid a short visit to Bulgaria and discussed energy issues and military cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Xinhua reported.

At a...

L.A. Reid has reportedly signed up to be a judge on the second series of the American version of "The X Factor".

The 55-year-old has reportedly signed a contract to reprise his position on the panel...

American comedian Joan Rivers claims she has had a total of 739 surgical procedures.

According to showbizspy.com, the 78-year-old TV personality has gone under the knife more than 700 times, and...

The 18-year-old killed by police bullets in the Bronx on February 2 was the third young victim of New York City cops in the space of one week. Ramarley Graham was shot and killed in his own...

Updated Feb 6, 2012 at 12:54 PM EST (WKBW release) New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday announced a New York Giants Super Bowl XLVI victory license plate to honor the championship...

CAIRO (AP) — Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt has referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally...

See a collection of political cartoons on the economy. ] Still, the question is why will the Fed resort to more ease, probably this summer, if the economy is on the mend? The answer is that the Fed...

An Egyptian man stands in front of riot police blocking the road during clashes with protestors near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The number of people killed in...

LOS ANGELES -; About three dozen parents and supporters have staged a protest at the Los Angeles-area elementary school rocked by allegations of lewd conduct crimes by two teachers against children....

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -; Jury selection is under way in the trial of a University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, who played on the women's team. Media...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -; A judge on Monday sentenced a South Dakota inmate to death for his part in the killing of a prison guard during an unsuccessful escape attempt. Rodney Berget, 49, pleaded...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -; A jury on Monday convicted a senior Democrat in the state House of Representatives of all but one of six charges in the latest corruption trial stemming from a five-year...

CHICAGO -; An attorney for a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver accused of attempting to send funds to al-Qaida says his client will change his plea to guilty. Raja Lahrasib Khan's lawyer,...

The smoldering remains of a house, left, where an explosion killed Josh Powell and his two sons, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, is shown from the air in Graham, Wash. The explosion occurred moments after a...

WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama has ordered new sanctions on the Islamic republic, including its Central Bank, in a move to enforce a law he signed in December. In a letter to Congress...

PHOENIX -; Police have started searching a landfill south of Phoenix for the body of a 5-year-old Arizona girl who has been missing for more than four months and who authorities now believe is dead....

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images This week in rock history, the Beatles arrived in New York, Bill Haley passed away, the Clash began recording their studio debut, Sonny Bono declared his candidacy...

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on Monday urged Egypt to immediately release the 19 Americans – including the son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood - who are being...

PrisonPlanet.com 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...

Two new polls ominously highlight that almost half of all Americans are willing to go along with attacking Iran in order to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons. In...

The State Column Monday, February 6, 2012 Veterans for Ron Paul 2012, which was founded by Adam Kokesh and Nathan Cox, will host a "Ron Paul is the Choice of the Troops" march on February...

Berlin, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) After winning the 2009 Golden Bear Award, Peruvian moviemaker Claudia Llosa will come back on Friday to the Berlin International Film Festival with the short film...

Saying that "these Americans have done absolutely nothing wrong," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations this morning called on Egypt to immediately allow 19 U.S. citizens to leave that...

February 6, 2012 Nineteen Americans face criminal charges in Egypt over their work for U.S. non-profit organizations. The charges are part of an escalating stand-off between Egyptian officials and...

An Atlanta federal appeals court has ordered a new hearing for a Miami woman sentenced to life for her role in a high-profile murder-for-hire...

ROANOKE, Texas -- A man who gained notoriety for claiming he could live in a $340,000 suburban Dallas house for $16 has vacated the home following a judge's order.Kenneth Robinson had filed an...

Minutes after a man pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was dumped in a trash bin and later found in a landfill, the little girl's twin brother...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Sunday for "friends of democratic Syria" to unite and rally against President Bashar Assad's regime, previewing the possible...

ATLANTA -- The family of a Georgia woman claims a homeowners association should have removed an alligator from a subdivision that they say may have killed the woman.The Georgia Supreme Court...

FILE - This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and left several...

Washington Post February 6, 2012 CAIRO -- Nineteen Americans will face criminal charges as part of a probe of the funding of pro-democracy groups, Egyptian officials announced Sunday, a provocative...

New York received another unsolicited bid for a block of the residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS) bonds they couldn’t give away last summer. In response, so the story goes, the Fed may...