Pete Seeger, the 92-year-old folk music legend, joined the Occupy Wall Street protest in the Manhattan borough of New York on Friday. Commentators called the sight powerful and beautiful.
In a bid to kick-start the moribund U.S. housing market, two senior American lawmakers want to make it easier for wealthy foreigners to purchase U.S. homes.
In the latest of shark attacks 2011, a great white shark killed an American diver near Perth, Australia Saturday -- the second fatal shark attack off the coast of Western Australia in the past two weeks.
Williston, N.D., is booming. And it's all because of the oil. People are moving there in en masse. It is probably the one place in the nation where there are not enough empty homes to meet the new residents' demands. North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate of the 50 states at 3.5 percent, and it can tout the fact that workers' salaries have doubled and tripled recently.
Imprisoned financial scam artist Bernard Madoff boasted in a jailhouse letter that he is quite the celebrity and treated like a Mafia don, ABC News said on Thursday.
He had often used the narrative of his parents’ escape from Communism as a compelling theme in his public speeches.
The Tea Party Nation blogger who said U.S. small businesses should stop hiring new employees in order to ensure President Barack Obama will not be re-elected expands on her statement. Melissa Brookstone said a global socialist movement is well underway and Obama is connected to it.
The prince was the son of the kingdom's founder, King Abdul-Aziz, who was known as Ibn Saud.
When Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced Moammar Gadhafi's death Thursday, he began with the words: We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. That must have made many in Libya and in the U.S. feel very good: it never hurts to be reminded that justice exists.
Wireless carrier Sprint announced yesterday that it would no longer be offering unlimited 4G mobile broadband for mobile hotspots, USB modems, tablets and notebooks. Formerly, customers chose one of three plans which offered 3GB, 5GB or 10GB of 3G data and unlimited 4G data. The changes, which will take effect in November, will now only allow 3GB, 5GB and 10GB of combined 3G and 4G data, charging 5 cents for every additional MB of data above the allowance.
The Facebook privacy war has escalated to a whole new level. An international regulator is now charging that the social-networking site is building shadow profiles of nonusers. That's right, there is no running from Facebook.
Nokia, the worlds largest maker of mobile phones, has teamed up with Microsoft to take on Google and Apple.
The popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and now jobs, better governance, and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said Saturday.
The popular uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and jobs, better governance and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said on Saturday.
The International Monetary Fund is not seeking more funds from Gulf Arab oil exporters to bolster its resources, and the region faces no major danger from the euro zone debt crisis, the IMF's Deputy Managing Director Nemat Shafik said on Saturday.
Homeowners who owe more than their houses are worth will get new help to refinance in a government plan to be unveiled as early as Monday to support the battered housing sector, sources familiar with the effort said.
After dazzling onlookers with the one-shoulder purple gown worn by Michelle Obama, designer Doo-Ri Chung has hit the news again for being the next name for Macy's Capsule Collection Series.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud died on Saturday while abroad, the country's royal court said in a statement carried by state media.
In a blunt message to Pakistan, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on Friday, demanded greater cooperation to help squeeze the Haqqani network responsible for attacks in Afghanistan, saying Islamabad could not keep snakes in its backyard to strike its neighbours.
The hypocrisy and opportunism in other capitals don't absolve Gadhafi of the crimes he committed against ordinary Libyans, against humanity. But there is something sinister and sleazy about the current consensus in world capitals about how utterly wretched Gadhafi was.
Regulators closed four banks in the United States on Friday, including one in Colorado with over $1 billion in assets, bringing the total number of closures this year to 84.
Regulators closed four banks in the United States on Friday, including one in Colorado with over $1 billion in assets, bringing the total number of closures this year to 84.
