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...

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...

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...

Security officials say the crowds expected in Indianapolis for the NFL's Super Bowl championship game are tempting targets for terrorists.

An operation in place to protect the Super Bowl 46 site...

CHICAGO (AP) -- 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

EMERGENCY services are responding to reports several powerlines are down at Tugun and Burleigh Heads this afternoon.Members of the public called the problems in and guarded the live wires to keep...

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...

Amar'e Stoudemire was mourning the death of his older brother Monday, who was killed in an early-morning car accident in Florida. The Knicks confirmed that the forward took a leave of absence...

New York Giants . Smart move: Those exercises train big muscles (like your glutes and those in your back) and smaller stabilizers (like the ones in your rotator cuffs). That balance is vital to excel...

speech on foreign policy. "In an American century," the former Massachusetts governor continued, "America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world."...

Santo Domingo.- The American Chamber of Commerce, AMCHAMDR, through its Business Social Responsibility Committee, and the Foundation Inter American (FIA), activated their donations plan on Friday...

CAIRO, Egypt -; Egypt on Monday released the names of 19 Americans who face trial over foreign funding of activities of their non-profit groups in Egypt, a case that has soured U.S.-Egypt relations. ...

Former White House intern Mimi Alford says in her new book that former president John F. Kennedy Jr. acted as if their alleged affair was 'the most natural thing in the world,' she...

WASHINGTON -- If you're looking to travel to another country, it's going to cost you a little more. The State Department is boosting the cost of a passport from $55 to $70. If...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Lazard Ltd., the largest independent merger adviser, fell the most in six months after reporting a 99 percent plunge in fourth-quarter profit on a decrease in revenue from...

ATLANTA  — Georgia's top court struck down a state law that restricted assisted suicides, siding on Monday with four members of a suicide group who said the law violated their free...

By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com Nearly 130 dolphins have beached themselves on Cape Cod in the last three weeks, with 92 dying in what's become "the single largest stranding" in at least...