Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was the center focus for global market participants on Wednesday as he testified before the House Financial Services Committee about the state of the U.S. economy and the Fed's monetary policy.
Cellphones and the Internet are muscling in on more traditional media as ways to see the Olympic Games, and the trend will only deepen, organizers said on Tuesday.
Kim Yuna mimed a pistol firing at the end of her Bond Girl routine and with it a warning shot to her rivals that it will be hard to stop her winning Olympic gold in the women's figure skating.
Canada stormed into the Olympic men's ice hockey quarter-finals on Tuesday while Switzerland and the Czech Republic were pushed to the limit and Slovakia battled to a bloody victory over Norway.
Canada's Olympic inquisition was put on ice after an extraordinary day of raw emotion at the Vancouver Winter Games on Tuesday.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) also pointed to a rise in the use of so-called date rape drugs, as sexual abusers try to get around more rigorous controls with substances not banned by international drugs laws.
Afghanistan's main opposition on Wednesday criticized President Hamid Karzai's removal of foreign observers from a U.N.-backed electoral watchdog as autocratic and urged international pressure to ensure impartial elections.
Over 6500 authors have asked to be excluded from the digital books agreement that Google reached with the publishing industry bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and Louis de Bernières and critical favorites Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith.
Presidents and high-ranking representatives of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed to create a new organization without the United States and Canada on Tuesday.
From ambitious concept to international academic institution, Iceland‘s Svartárkot Centre for Research & Education adopts a radical new approach to addressing the complex — often vexed — relationship between humans and nature
From the Kremlin to Ottawa's Parliament Hill a Canada-Russia showdown was the Olympic men's ice hockey dream game everyone wanted -- just not in the quarter-finals.
Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Inc is preparing to bid for a large stake in No. 2 U.S. mall owner General Growth Properties Inc.
Most athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver are looking at financial gains for bringing home a gold medal but South Korean figure skater Kim Yuna could sustain huge losses if she does not.
A young pair of ice dancers lifted the host country out of its Winter Olympic gloom with a golden performance Monday just as Canadians were questioning their team's medal-winning capability.
As the saying goes, money isn't everything, but it certainly means more to people now than before the global financial crisis, and especially in China, Japan and South Korea.
A U.S. Navy warship prevented an attack on a Tanzanian ship and apprehended eight suspected pirates in the process, the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania said on Tuesday.
Actor Andrew Koenig, who is probably best known for playing the role of Richard “Boner” Stabone in the 1980's sitcom “Growing Pains,” is reported to be missing in Canada.
Ireen Wust of the Netherlands made up for a disappointing start to her Olympics by claiming Vancouver speedskating gold in the women's 1,500 meters at the Richmond Olympic Oval on Sunday.
Big-name athletes are giving Olympic curling a boost by lending both their star power and locker-room motivational techniques.
Sunday's Olympics ice hockey grudge game between Canada and the United States was billed as the hottest show at the Vancouver Winter Olympics for good reason -- bragging rights alone can mean more than mere medals.
The Big Red Machine got back in gear as Russia beat the Czech Republic 4-2 to kick off a potentially explosive Olympic hockey Super Sunday.
Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir wowed the fans and judges with their sultry Flamenco moves on Sunday to upstage Russian favorites Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin in the Olympics ice dance event on Sunday.
