UNITED STATES

U.S. market regulators charged a former employee of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd with making $63,000 in illegal profits on inside information about the company's 2008 agreement to acquire Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.

U.S. banking regulators are using the agreement announced on Thursday between large U.S. banks and state and federal agencies over foreclosure abuses as a vehicle for levying their own fines on banks for problems in their mortgage servicing businesses.

The number of Americans signing up for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, the latest sign of recovery in the labor market.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has joined a chorus of critics demanding that the Obama administration release its legal justification for assassinating the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, in Yemen.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was seen in a video posted to jihadi forums today welcoming the militant Somali group al-Shabaab into the international terrorist organization.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting recent gains in employment are being sustained.

The U.S. judge overseeing MF Global's bankruptcy plans a closer review before deciding whether any of an estimated $190 million of insurance coverage for former company executives should instead go to customers.

The next supercontinent, Amasia, may still be a few hundred million years away, but there have been three others in the past that can give an approximation of what it might look like.

The mystery over the disappearance of the top Chinese police officer, Wang Lijun, continues to deepen as details emerge about the missing cop.

Swiss bank UBS sought to distance itself from a U.S. investigation of rival Swiss private banks on Thursday, saying that it did not hand over data on rival banks directly to U.S. officials when it settled a U.S. crackdown on taxpayers holding secret offshore accounts two years ago.

Mossad, Israel's elite secret service agency, have been training assassins to kill Iranian nuclear scientists, a new report from NBC News claims.

More than one million popular single-cup coffee makers are being voluntarily recalled by BSH Home Appliances due to burn hazards. Consumers have reported that the Tassimo coffee brewers spray hot liquid, coffee grounds and tea leaves on bystanders and those using the machines. Is your model on the recall list?

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting recent gains in employment are being sustained.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said he will travel to Egypt with a group of senators to try and diffuse a worsening standoff over Americans being tried for their work with pro-democracy organizations.

Russia faced a barrage of condemnations after it joined China over the weekend in vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step aside, but Russia has stood resolutely behind its decision. Why?

Iran is seeking to close grain purchases using gold and oil as payment, and has paid in yen for a large volume of wheat in its first deal since western sanctions against Tehran started choking imports of food staples, European wheat exporters said.

Forty-nine states and five major banks reached a $26 billion mortgage settlement that will aid about two million homeowners, government officials announced Thursday.

India is highly dependent on Persian oil and may not heed demands from the west that it buy its crude elsewhere.

Gold prices rose 1 percent on Thursday as the euro rallied to a fresh two-month high against the dollar after Greece clinched a deal with European Union and IMF leaders needed to avoid a messy default.

PepsiCo Inc forecast lower-than-expected 2012 earnings in a transition year in which it said it would cut thousands of jobs to save money and increase advertising to reinvigorate sales in North America.

There is a debate that has been heating up recently, and it's likely to continue to split some of the smartest minds from coast to coast. This debate revolves around whether prices for goods in the United States are on the rise or not.