Stock index futures fell Monday in low volume following the S&P 500's four-year closing high last week and after the Group of 20 leading economies told Europe it must commit more money to fight the EU debt crisis before seeking broader help.
The Artist is the first silent movie to win the Oscar after Wings which won the award in 1929, the very year the Oscar Awards ceremony began.
Scientists have discovered a new species of bat at Cat Ba Island in Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam and in Chu Mom Ray National Park.
Global anti-privacy organization Wikileaks announced Sunday night it would be releasing over five million emails hacked from the servers of a private intelligence newsletter publisher that's been called a shadow CIA by others.
The 2012 Oscars dazzled with some of the most stunning designer gowns in the most stunning Hollywood starlets. But who do you think was the best dressed? Take our poll here!
Perhaps familiarity does breed contempt. The biggest U.S. companies have often failed to meet forecasts this earnings season, while their smaller counterparts have delivered.
The Eastern Conference has dominated the Western Conference in NBA All-Star Game history, and with Dwight Howard starting for the East and playing for Orlando, that dominance will continue.
Dazzling and debonair, actors and actresses arrived on the 2012 Oscars red carpet looking their very best. Dressed in stunning designer frocks, with brilliantly bright smiles and fluttering hearts, Hollywood's top contenders were thrilled to be at the 84th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
A friend of mine lived in a one bedroom apartment in The Devonshire, a beautiful pre-war building on the corner of 10th and University in the heart of NYU. I got really lucky and an apartment came on the market and I moved in.
About 160 works by famous artists including Donatello, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, and Antonello da Messina are being showcased at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Benihana gets the 30 Rock treatment.
The Oscars return this Sunday with all the spectacle, drama and long-winded thank you speeches that make it Hollywood's favorite night of the year. With the throwback silent film The Artist expected to sweep the awards, Sunday night's results will either be extremely repetitive or come as a huge shock. Here are our favorite clips from all nine films nominated for the best picture.
The New Jersey funeral home responsible for Whitney Houston's body after her death has denied allegations of leaking a photo of the singer in a casket.
Johan Friso, the Dutch Prince who is currently in a coma after being buried in snow for 20 minutes as the result of an avalanche, has had his wife, Princess Mabel Wisse Smit dutifully at his side. Princess Mabel and Prince Friso seemed to be headed into a blissful fairy tale before the horrific avalanche accident that happened while the Prince was skiing with friends. Who is Princess Mabel Wisse Smit, and how did she get her fairy tale with Prince Friso?
The crowd at White Noise (a grimy bar and lounge in the East Village that's heavy on the strobe lights, smoke machines and stripper poles) on Friday night, Feb. 24, was a mix of punk, hair metal, rock and AC/DC fans, who had gathered together for one final hurrah before the freaky rock 'n' roll bar closed shop following a year-long run on the second floor of an East Village building above a Liquor Store on Avenue C. A mass of sweaty rockers bounced, moshed and grinded as if it was their...
The youth vote is often assumed to go more to Democrats than to Republicans, but an impressive number of young conservatives made the trek to Washington in mid-February for the Conservative Political Action Conference -- more than one-half of the attendees were between 18 and 29 years of age.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York will host a retrospective to honor the works of designer icons Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli.
The S&P 500 rose on Friday to close at its highest level since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September 2008, continuing a pattern of steady gains on apparent signs of U.S. economic recovery.
Proview Electronics, the firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China, has a plausible claim over the unusual methods Apple used to conceal its identity when attempting to acquire Proview's trademarks, according to several legal experts.
The Supreme Court will weigh next week whether corporations can be sued in the United States for suspected complicity in human rights abuses abroad, in a case being closely watched by businesses concerned about long and costly litigation.
While Kate Middleton has skyrocketed to fame with her royal wedding to Prince William, another member of her family, Katrina Darling, has recently gained publicity as well. Darling, a distant cousin of British royal Kate Middleton, is bringing her racy burlesque dancing act to New York this March. Take a look at pictures of Kate Middleton's sexy second cousin who models lingerie and racy burlesque outfits.
Arizona and Florida were ground zero for the housing boom and subsequent crash, but the multifamily sector is finally showing signs of life, with developers again planning new projects.
