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...

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...

Online dating has not only shed its stigma but has surpassed all forms of matchmaking in the United States apart from meeting through friends, a new study has revealed.

The digital revolution in...

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...

Katy Perry, who performed her first U.S. concert since splitting from Russell Brand in Indianapolis on Saturday night, dedicated a song to Tim Tebow at the pre-Super Bowl Concert.

The 27-year-old...

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...

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...

Next After paying $16 to file a one-page claim to an empty, $340,000 home in an upscale Dallas suburb, Kenneth Robinson moved in furniture, hung a "No Trespassing" sign in the front...

This courtroom sketch shows Former Stanford CFO James Davis, replicating for jurors the handcuffing motion he used to make to warn R. Allen Stanford that what they were doing was illegal Thursday,...

PHILADELPHIA -; Prosecutors overseeing a child sex-abuse case involving three Roman Catholic priests can reference molestation claims against more than 20 other clergymen to try to establish a...

WASHINGTON -; About 90 District of Columbia workers have been suspended and may be fired after officials determined they received unemployment checks while holding city jobs. The Washington Post...

LAS VEGAS -; A new report shows U.S. casinos and the industries that depend on them made a $125 billion economic splash in 2010 - the equivalent of 1 percent of the total U.S. gross domestic...

SEATTLE -; Money donated by the nation's most chartable people is starting to catch up with pre-recession giving, thanks in part to some very large bequests from a few donors. The Chronicle...

SAN FRANCISCO -; A federal appeals court is ready to announce its ruling on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians. The 9th U.S....

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -; Jury selection has begun in the trial of two men charged with serving as contract killers in a violent drug ring accused of moving cocaine from Mexico into Tennessee and other...

WASHINGTON -; The U.S. is easing one of its many sanctions against Myanmar as a reward for political reforms after five decades of direct military rule. The step is very limited, and most of the...

SAN ANTONIO -; Texas' attorney general agreed Monday to temporary voting maps that add new Hispanic-dominated districts and could save the April 3 date for primary elections statewide. But at...

American Petro-Hunter announced that the Company's 3rd horizontal well in North Oklahoma has concluded drilling operations in the Mississippi Lime formation and has begun the completion phase as...

February 6, 2012 According to the libertarian social scientist Charles Murray, America is "coming apart at the seams." Class strain has cleaved society into two groups, he argues in his new...

Mimi Alford is speaking publicly for the first time about the secret she’s held for half a century. Alford claims that she had an 18-month-long affair with President John F. Kennedy when she...

The killer whale Tilikum watches as SeaWorld Orlando trainers take a break during a training session at the theme park's Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla., on March 7,...

If you go • What: Miami Herald Small Business Forum • When: Feb. 23, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. • Where: Florida International University Modesto Maidique Campus, College of Business Business...

Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has made it official: After its latest two day meeting, it announced its goal to devalue the dollar by 33% over...

After four years of coping with a stagnant economy, probably the last thing you want to hear is how important it is to sock away money for a rainy day - you already know that. But hear me out, just...

Local business leaders are hoping to turn a productive business briefing into definitive benefits for the Memphis business community. More than 30 local business leaders traveled to Washington, D.C....

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan is said to be considering the sale and lease back of all of the bank's office buildings that it owns except for principle structures in New York and...

punctuated by extending her middle finger, occurred during one of the largest broadcast events of the year. Musical icon Madonna's performance in-between halves invoked debates of its own, but...

A spokesman from the National Football League denied the organization had asked Google to remove from YouTube an "Imported from Detroit" ad from Chrysler. During the 2011 Super Bowl,...

By The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing...

This 1963 file photo shows former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The New York Post on February 6, 2012 reports that the author of a new tell-all book entitled "Once upon a secret: my affair...

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning touches his most valuable player trophy on Monday, the day after Super Bowl XLVI in which they defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 in...

Atlanta’s 55-story Bank of America Plaza, the tallest tower in the Southeast, is set to be sold at an open outcry auction on the steps of the Fulton County Courthouse tomorrow after landlord...

Politicians need to strengthen Social Security’s protections, especially for lower-income women, youth and ethnic elders and stop focusing on reducing Social Security already modest benefits to...