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The Renault-Nissan Alliance will buy an indirect majority stake in Russian car company OAO Avtovaz, maker of Lada brand cars, for $750 million, the automakers' alliance announced Friday.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, will be formally arraigned -- along with four alleged co-conspirators -- in a military court at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Saturday. Each faces the death penalty.

In honor of Mother?s Day in the US, here?s a look at five destinations across the nation for five different types of mother-daughter pairs.

Beyonce has been nominated and won many awards over the span of her career, but an award for journalism is a new one.

The baseball that rolled through Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in the 1986 World Series cost Boston fans a lot of heartbreak. The ball's monetary cost was $418,000 at an auction held Friday.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is getting election-year heat from two prominent Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Former BP engineer Kurt Mix pleaded not guilty Thursday in a federal court in New Orleans to charges that he deliberately destroyed evidence requested by authorities probing the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Phil Mushnick, a New York Post columnist and racist hack, wrote Friday that the Brooklyn Nets should be called New York N----s if Jay-Z is calling their marketing shots in a racist rant that has shocked the sports world with its insensitivity.

A New York sports columnist made some insensitive remarks about the New Jersey Nets.

Did Dominique Strauss-Khan, the former IMF chief whose career was shattered amid accusations he raped a New York hotel maid, participate in an alleged group rape in Washington, D.C? French investigators are exploring the possibility as they probe the once-likely French presidential candidate.

Women all over the world are finding themselves sexually liberated and it's all because of the kinkily fun pleasure fest that is Fifty Shades of Grey. The first book in the erotic trilogy (there's also Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed) currently resides at the top of the New York Times and Amazon.com best seller list.

Rafael Soriano is the best option to replace Mariano Rivera.

The disgraced former IMF chief already faces charges of aggravated pimping in an organized gang for allegedly organizing orgies in France and the U.S.

The Obama administration will reportedly restrict hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by promulgating a set of rules governing such practices on federal land.

Patricia Krentcil is tan and proud. The tanorexic New Jersey mother accused of bringing her redheaded, five-year-old daughter into a tanning booth with her recently called critics of her tanning jealous, fat and ugly.

Mallory Kievman, 13, has not only supposedly cured the hiccups, but has become a CEO in the process. Mallory Kievman is CEO and founder of Hiccupops, a company that might just have cured one of the world's oldest and most annoying conditions.

Violet D'Mello, a British woman from Aberdeen, was visiting the Kragga Kamma reserve in South Africa with her husband Archie when she was mauled by a cheetah.

New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera sustained a possible career-ending injury on Thursday night before the Yankees game in Kansas City chasing a fly ball. But how serious is a torn ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament)?

The Bentley Mulsanne was parked across the street from our non-descript New York office tower. It gleamed in the sun, but nevertheless a Bentley employee was giving it one last spit and polish (although I'm sure that Bentley would never use spit to polish unless it came from a special Bentley tended pride of lions; it's just that lux).

One of the alleged prostitutes caught in the scandal surrounding the U.S. Secret Service reportedly told a Colombian radio program that the agent who had hired her left his luggage and papers exposed in the hotel room where he was staying and where he had taken her. Suarez said if she had been a spy, she could have easily removed his papers.

The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is suing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), accusing leaders of the world's biggest retailer of not upholding the best interest of shareholders by quashing an investigation of bribery of public officials by its Mexican subsidiary.