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Fifty Shades of Grey, E L James' S&M erotica, has sat atop The New York Times' Best Sellers list for seven weeks straight. Casting for the movie has already caused a buzz, despite the fact that no solid offers have been made. Many young Hollywood heartthrobs are rumored to be in talks for the Fifty Shades of Grey leading role of Christian Grey. Ian Somerhalder is the latest glove thrown in the ring.

The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival is currently featuring a wide range of intriguing documentaries. The festival's selections such as The List and Searching For Sugar Man are allowing innovative cinematic voices to emerge. For documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner, her work being honored at the Sundance Film Festival proved to be life altering.

Two Democratic lawmakers on Monday said they are launching an investigation into allegations of bribery at Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Mexican affiliate.

The sinking of Wal-Mart's stock after the Mexican Bribery Scandal, cost the retail powerhouse $4.5 Billion. The loss comes after its investors watched as the companies Mexican subsidiary tried to cover up accusations of corruption in their growth practices.

On Monday, the state-run North Korean news agency broadcast a military statement threatening to reduce the rat-like groups of South Korea to ashes in three or four minutes...

Stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Monday on weak European data and renewed anxiety over how the region would tackle its debt crisis, while Wal-Mart slumped after a report it stymied a probe into bribery allegations.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade Monday are: Ardea Biosciences, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Savient Pharmaceuticals, Amarin Corp, DR Horton, Achillion Pharmaceuticals, SGOCO Group, Kellogg Co, Wal-Mart Stores and United States Steel Corp.

New York Times says Wal-Mart suppressed an investigation into an extensive bribery campaign carried out by top executives of its Mexican subsidiary

Kenyans dominated yet another large city marathon on Sunday, with Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany winning in London.

The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

A shortage of domestic coal has postponed the construction of new power plants in the energy-starved country.

Charles W. Chuck Colson, who served as a special counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, died of complications related to a brain hemorrhage on Saturday at 3:12 p.m. EDT, according to one of the two evangelical Christian organizations he founded. He was 80.

Dania Suarez, one of the alleged Colombian prostitutes involved in the recent U.S. Secret Service scandal, has gone into hiding after photographs of her were posted on the Internet, the New York Daily News reported on Friday. Check out a slideshow of three other prostitution sex scandals that rocked governments.

Bank of America Corp directors, who were sued by shareholders for allegedly paying too much for Merrill Lynch & Co in 2008, must defend a proposed $20 million settlement of the claims in federal court in New York, court papers show.

It's been confirmed that three more Secret Service employees resigned on Friday amid a prostitution scandal in Colombia. This raises the total number of employees to leave the U.S. Secret Service due to the recent misconduct to six.

Boy band fever is definitely in the air, but did the genre ever really go away?

Rich Ross, Disney's studio chairman, has resigned after the entertainment company took a huge hit with the movie John Carter.

Three more employees with the U.S. Secret Service could lose their jobs on Friday, a source has told the Associated Press. That would bring the number of ousted employees caught up in an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia to six.

On Friday, Cairo's Tahrir Square looked much the same as it did 15 months ago as tens of thousands of protestors gathered to call for the country's rulers to step down.

The culture of the United States Secret Service Agency is under heated scrutiny after photos of the Colombian escort allegedly involved in the prostitution scandal, Dania Suarez, were published in the media. Along with photos of Ms. Suarez, the names of two supervisors involved in the scandal have been revealed.

President Obama is urging Congress to prevent a planned interest rate increase on federal student loans, weighing in on the latest budget showdown.

Investigators looking into the recent Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia have interviewed some of the Colombian prostitutes who allegedly met with agents last week before President Obama's trip to Cartagena, Colombia, ABC reported.

Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while walking to his New York City bus stop on May 25, 1979. In 2001 Etan was declared dead, and in 2010 his case was reopened. After 33 years, police may have found a new lead in the child's mysterious disappearance.

Popocatepetl volcano shot a heavy plume of ash into the sky, just southeast of Mexico's capital city, as it spewed glowing rock and magma from its crater around dawn on Friday.

World leaders sharpened their condemnations of the bloodshed in Syria on Thursday, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the United Nations to adopt a resolution similar to the one that enabled the NATO operation in Libya.

Haitong Securities Co. (SHA: 600837), China's second-largest brokerage by assets, raised HK$13 billion ($1.7 billion) in the largest public offering in the world so far this year, media reports said Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Spirit Airlines has jumped at the opportunity of using the recent Secret Service prostitution scandal as a marketing gimmick to sell cheap tickets to Cartagena, Columbia.

Photos of the Colombian escort caught up in a scandal that has caused three Secret Service agents to lose their jobs hit the Web Thursday. According to the New York Daily News, the woman, a 24-year-old single mother is known as Dania.

Organizers announce that Microsoft will be the official innovation provider, working on ways to use Xbox and other technology at the GOP event.