Russia has agreed to allow American troops and weapons to fly over its airspace on the way to Afghanistan, the New York Times reported...

'New York', the first big Bollywood film to hit America after the industry strike, has won good reviews from US media with the New York Times praising its portrayal of problems faced by a Muslim...

Organisers Friday released the first details of Michael Jackson's public memorial service, confirming that it will take place at the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles...

The US military said Friday that it was pushing further into a Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan after it had reported its first casualties in the offensive, the first under the US government's new strategy in the Central Asian...

New York, July 3 : O.C. star Mischa Barton was left embarrassed after she was kicked out by a toilet attendant for dragging a friend into the toilet stall with her, it has emerged....

New York, July 03: Limelight is now certainly on Kevin Jonas' love interest Danielle Deleasa after the singer asked her hand for marriage...

New York, July 3 : A Lebanese national was reportedly jailed in Dubai for wearing T-shirt showing Victoria Beckham in the...

New York, Jul 3 : A woman's sex partner was assaulted after teenagers mistook her cries of passion to be screams of pain....

London, July 3 : Late King of Pop Michael Jackson believably at least two aliases, including the name of the American author Jack London, to obtain drugs....

New York, July 3 : Kristen Stewart will reportedly do a steamy bedroom scene with Dakota Fanning in the upcoming Joan Jett biopic 'The Runaways.'...

Washington, July 3 : While Barrack Obama's job as the President of the United States earns him a cool salary of 400,000 dollars, his top White House staffers are also not doing too badly with almost half of the presidential income, a new list has revealed....

New York, Jul 3 : Singapore-born singer/model Tila Tequila has in an open letter to US President Barack Obama urged him to allow gays to openly serve in the military....

Washington, Jul 3 : American glamour model/actress Carmen Electra has come out tops at the models vs. actresses Bikini...

Washington, July 03: Katie Holmes will pay tribute to Judy Garland on the 100th episode of hit U.S. talent show 'So You Think You Can Dance' by...

New York, July 3 : Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe is yet to make a decision over the custody of kids, says her...

Washington, July 03: U.S. President Barrack Obama has finally paid tribute to King of Pop Michael Jackson more than a week after his...

New York, July 3 : Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar feels that his new film Kambakkht Ishq, which also stars Hollywood superstars Sylvester Stallone, Brandon Routh and Denise Richards, will bring the two cultures of...

Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), July 3 Incoming American forces are likely to continue to face a hostile Afghan population, even as they seek to reverse their military losses to a resurgent...

Moscow, July 3 (RIA Novosti) Moscow and Washington will sign deals expanding bilateral military ties and on transit of military supplies via Russia to the American troops in Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's visit to the Russian capital, an official said...

(Ecco; 400 pages; $29.99) The French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault insisted that all history is history of the present. When we reimagine the past, we do so with the concerns and hopes of our...

THE 2004 All-Star Game was held at Minute Maid Park in Houston and, even by midsummer classic standards, it had plenty of sparkle. Native son Roger Clemens, representing the hometown Astros, was the...

(AP) — As of Friday, July 3, 2009, at least 642 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles city officials are planning a massive security operation for Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, and on Friday urged fans who do not win a ticket...

WASHINGTON, July 3 (AP) - (Kyodo)—U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated veteran Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano on Friday on his appointment as the next International Atomic...

Replicas of North Korea's Scud-B missile and other South Korean missiles are seen on display at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea on Oct. 8,...

American gun and drug smuggler Evans Matan was sentenced to a decade behind bars in the U.S. this week for helping to bring 228 kilos of cocaine and three firearms into B.C.Matan, a 36-year-old...

This is just the latest in a number of cases of infant abandonment in Maryland, reports CBS station WJZ-TV in Baltimore. A trail of blood surrounds the scene of what many call a sad and shocking...

Roger Federer of Switzerland smiles during the men's singles semi final match against Tommy Haas of Germany on Day Eleven of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships on July 3, 2009, in...

Before the grill gets lit or the fireworks pop, millions of Americans will travel to their holiday destination. But, travelers are down 12 percent from two years ago. Kelly Wallace tells us...

announced that she will step down from her post as Alaska governor at the end of the month, giving no details about her motivation or future...

Brian Morgan Dan Jennings, right, and Brad Shaw of Los Angeles Country Club defeated Kelly Miller and David Abell of Pine Valley Golf Club to win the World Club...

Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor makes remarks after being named by U.S. President Barack Obama as his choice to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court during an announcement in the...

Sonia Sotomayor brought several discrimination lawsuits in the 1980s that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored...

Washington - Russia has agreed to allow American troops and weapons to fly over its airspace on the way to Afghanistan, the New York Times reported Saturday. The breakthrough was to be announced when...

ROCK HILL, S.C. -- A shuttered mill in northwestern South Carolina has caught fire, spewing clouds of dense, black smoke visible for miles. The mill housing the former Rock Hill Printing &...

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) ― As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures...

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. — Mike Monichetti is on his stool, thinking. This is where Mike always is at Mike's Seafood in Sea Isle City — on the stool behind the counter, against the wall on...

DETROIT -- The mayor of Detroit is firing the city's police chief, a person familiar with the situation said Friday. The person told the Associated Press that Mayor Dave Bing has told Police Chief...

Miami -- Crouching in a cage under a banner that reads, "Give Animals in Zoos Their Independence," and wearing a sexy American-flag bikini, a PETA member will show visitors at the Miami MetroZoo on...

A Lexington family is searching for a missing 68-year-old man who does not speak English. Chasoo Choi went for a walk Friday around 8:30 a.m. and never returned, police say. Choi is a Korean...

(6/30/2009) Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hip, said Friday that he feels like he could play now. Lowell had fluid drained from his hip...

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REGINA — United Airlines twice daily service to Regina was officially inaugurated Friday, with a visit from Canada's consul general in Denver, former Leader-Post political columnist Dale...

(3/18/2009) It's no holiday for those battling over the state budget. Lawmakers are maneuvering to override the governor's budget veto, but Governor Pat Quinn is taking on a powerful new ally. ...

(AP) — LOGAN, Utah - Somewhere among the beakers and the bubbling green-tinged tanks in this Utah State University lab, Jeff Muhs is searching for champion pond scum for the U.S. government. ...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - December 2006 - Gov. Sarah Palin, a former mayor of Wasilla City, Alaska, becomes governor of her state after defeating an incumbent governor of her own party in the...

Yereth RosenFormer US Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin last night announced she will resign this month as the governor of Alaska and not run for re-election, leading to speculation...

At a Tea Party in Atlanta in April, Dwight Alcala of Kennesaw, Ga., protested government taxation and spending. The event was one of as many as 700 such protests around the US this...

Fire was set to cover up shooting, U.S. Navy says Seaman August Provost's death being investigated as homicide Congressman calls for investigation of possible hate crime Body was discovered at 3:30...

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