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...

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...

In its strongest language yet, the state has objected to plans for reconfiguring the center of Balboa Park and asked the National Park Service to intervene.Milford Wayne Donaldson, a former San Diego...

DETROIT (AP) -- People rarely pick a fight with Dirty Harry. But Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood has generated fierce debate about...

Clint Eastwood that played up the auto industry’s resurgence and called on the nation to come together and rebuild - a message taken in some quarters as an implicit endorsement of...

New York jumps out to a quick 14-7 lead but loses forward Carmelo Anthony to a right groin strain. Utah takes advantage of Anthony and Amare Stoudemire being out, and closes the quarter...

Washington o Targeting Iran's economy, the U.S. ordered tough new penalties Monday to further pinch the country's financial system and encourage Israel to give sanctions more time before...

POOF GO THE PROFITS: Companies in the S&P 500 earned an estimated 5.8 percent more last quarter than a year ago. Since the start of 2010, profits have grown five times as fast in an average...

CORRECTS SPELLING OF PETA ON SECOND REFERENCE- Jeffrey Kerr, general counsel for PETA, talks outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Courthouse in San Diego where a judge agreed to weigh the merits of...

An American aid worker rescued by Navy SEALs in Somalia last month says she's thankful for the support she's received. Thirty-two-year-old Jessica Buchanan was rescued last month along...

NEWARK, N.J. -; A northern New Jersey man has admitted carjacking a 65-year-old grandmother, who was seriously injured when she became entangled in a seat belt and was dragged by the vehicle for two...

NEW YORK -; A Brooklyn police officer trying to make extra money to buy a house pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy charges, admitting his central role in a smuggling case that involved guns,...

PHILADELPHIA -; People have begun paying their respects to the former spiritual leader of Philadelphia's 1.5 million Catholics. The first of two public viewings began Monday evening for the...

SAN FRANCISCO -; A federal appeals court plans to announce whether it thinks California's same-sex marriage ban violates the civil rights of gays and lesbians, and if the trial judge who struck...

In this undated photo provided by Chuck and Judy Cox, Chuck Cox plays with his grandsons, Charlie, right, and Braden, left. Charlie and Braden were killed along with their father, Josh Powell, on...

Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was convicted in 2006 on charges of fraud, corruption and conspiracy, speaks at Public Citizen, a consumer rights advocacy group, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6,...

PORTLAND, Maine -; A tent city that's among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement...

Federal officials have blocked California from requiring Medi-Cal recipients to pay a copayment when they see a doctor or go to the hospital.The copays, which needed federal approval, were one of the...

Havana (Prensa Latina) Facing the current international situation, with an euro zone in crisis and the US practically stagnant economically, the South American countries closed 2011 with better...

Always tidy up before calling the cops - it’s a lesson that Michael Cokley learned the hard way.Late last year, he called 911 to report a gunpoint home invasion robbery.When cops showed up at...

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...

A barista abducted from a coffee shack that sits near one of Anchorage's busiest intersections had filed for a restraining order against a man, but had been too scared to show up for the court...

A Key West man jailed Tuesday night for allegedly robbing McDonald's from the drive-through window is telling police he was coerced into the crime by an unidentified gunman giving orders from...

American Airlines may not know for weeks how many South Florida employees will lose their jobs under a proposal to lay off 13,000 people across the company, representatives said Monday.In a meeting...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- Jahmell Crockam took a look around the courthouse, couldn't find his lawyer, then went home.He went to a friend's home in Lakewood, where he had a conversation with...

A day before Miami has the first of two public budget hearings, the city said it has agreed to new union contracts with all but is police union. The two sides agreed to continue to...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas -- Officials at Big Bend National Park in West Texas are looking for a mountain lion that attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy as he walked with three other...

In June, in one of the most anticipated rulings on the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket this term, the court blocked a huge class-action sex discrimination case brought by approximately 1.5 million...

NEW ORLEANS -- It was a satirical story about an "$8 billion Abortionplex" opening in Kansas. But U.S. Rep. John Fleming, or someone on his staff, appeared to take it seriously in a...

NEW YORK -- Is the great profit engine of corporate America running out of steam?While other parts of the economy struggled the past two years, large companies managed to rack up higher profits...

A federal judge in Miami has blocked enforcement of a first-in-the-nation Florida law restricting what physicians can say about guns to their...

Nineteen U.S. citizens and two Germans are among 43 people Egypt wants to try over alleged illegal activities by their nongovernment organizations (NGOs), judicial officials said on Monday. Only...

gives you a big choice of flights into all three major New York airports - Air Canada. Voted the best airline in North America for the past three consecutive years, Air Canada has announced that...

By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2012 – President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will honor Iraq War veterans and their...

Follow this company got more bad news Monday when a federal judge approved class-action status for a lawsuit accusing the bank and some of its senior executives and directors of...