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As analysts began to eagerly predict Facebook earnings--its first as a public company--the social media giant's close ally Zynga posted dramatic losses, leading many to question the future the two tech companies may have together.

U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes most gun owners would want guns out of the hands of those who want to do harm, thus background checks and other means to safe gun sales shouldn't be a controversial issue.

A Nickelback fan, 22-year-old Kevin Beaudette was injured on Tuesday night after he fell into a gorge while trying to sneak into a Nickelback concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Beaudette who lives near New York's Tupper Lake slipped down a creek embankment near the merchandise tent as the officials told Times Union. The Saratoga Springs Fire Department helped in rescuing this injured man and confirmed that Beaudette was in a highly intoxicated state when he tried to sneak into the Ni...

A group of men deployed by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to help stop crime in Chicago is a welcomed initiative by the city's first Jewish Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

After weeks of speculation that Dwight Howard would be traded before the start of training camp, it appears that the center might not be leaving Orlando any time soon.

Further Arsenal signings are on the way, plus the latest on the futures of Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott.

Based on a decade's worth of national surveys, researchers found more than 2.5 million adults in the U.S. take oral steroids - a rate that trumps all existing estimates from other countries.

Federal regulators ordered the distributor of a brand of small magnetic toys to halt sales because injuries to children who had swallowed them had continued to rise.

Catfights are not new to the entertainment industry and in most of the cases; the fight is for a man. This incident took place almost a year back in Miami's Dream Nightclub last year when the famous Victoria Secret Model Selita Ebanks allegedly hit the 34-year-old Telemundo model Liza Irizarry and broke her nose for kissing boyfriend Terrence J.

Amid reports that Islamic fundamentalists are trying to hijack the Syrian revolution, which have raised concerns among U.S. intelligence and Iraqi officials, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed Washington's position over the Damascus bombing that killed several top Syrian officials, as "a direct whitewashing of terrorism."

Some of local governments are turning to a new tool to fix the problem, known as underwater mortgages: seizing the loans through eminent domain and enacting principal reductions, a move that is attracting praise and controversy.

Even as London gears up to host the Olympics with the biggest peacetime security operation underway since World War II, security measures at the Manchester airport, about 300 kilometers from London, came under scrutiny following reports that a 11-year-old boy boarded a plane from Manchester to Rome without a passport, ticket or boarding pass.

Ron Paul's so-called "Audit the Fed" bill, aimed at making the U.S. Federal Reserve more transparent and accountable, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a rare moment of bipartisanship on Wednesday.

The Blues made a major signing on Wednesday.

New York University's proposal to add four new buildings to Greenwich Village was approved Wednesday by the New York City Council, capping a fierce five-year battle that pitted one of the country's largest colleges against local residents and preservationists.

IAC/InterActiveCorp. (Nasdaq: IACI) and AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) both reported profitable second quarters on Wednesday, and both New York-based companies discussed the futures of their respective troubled media properties.

Apple beat its own conservative quarterly estimate, reporting a strong jump in earnings and even sold a record number of iPads in Q3, but across the board, Apple did a rare thing: It missed analysts' estimates. Apple can rebound in Q4 if it decides to release its next iPhone, which many are already calling "iPhone 5," as long as the much-rumored "iPad Mini."

American children's well-being have improved in education and health despite the recent economic downturn. However, between 2005 and 2010, 2.4 million more children were living in families and more parents are finding it hard to get steady employment.

The EU is looking into the possibility of making Libor and Euribor rate-rigging -- the deliberate manipulation of interest rates that set the benchmark for over $500 trillion in financial contracts - a criminal offense.

News of Kristen Stewart's alleged infidelity has flooded the media and left Twilight fans slack-jawed and heartbroken.

The ASA rules against Activision in a case involving a daytime television ad for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. How will this impact future marketing for the next installment in the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops 2?