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Jennifer Aniston has again made celebrity news magazine headlines after she purchased a $450,000 painting with her boyfriend Justin Theroux at an auction on Thursday.

With less than six days until a possible U.S. Government shutdown, considerable differences remain between Democratic and Republican proposals to fund disaster relief. The GOP wants any Hurricane Irene disaster relief funds to be offset by cuts to other programs. Democrats say doing so would hold disaster victims hostage to partisan politics.

Stuntman Jeb Corliss successfully completed a high-risk wingsuit dive through a 100-ft. wide arch in China's Tienman Mountain on Saturday.Corliss jumped from a helicopter 6,000 feet above the ground, and raced through the air at high speed towards a perilously narrow gap in the mountain. An expectant crowd gasped and cheered as the 35-year old made it through with room to spare.An earlier attempt was aborted after the smoke canisters on his wingsuit malfunctioned. The suit allows him ...

The Apple iPad tablet isn't even two years old, but it owns almost three-fourths of the global market for tablet computers. HP's TouchPad couldn't take it down. That product lasted just two months before a $99 fire sale brought buyers rushing in for the discontinued product. But now it appears there are two serious threats to the iPad's runaway success: new tablets forthcoming from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

NASA said 26 components of its Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), weighing a total of 1,200 pounds, could have survived the fiery fall and landed on the surface of the Earth. The space agency said the UARS fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT on Friday and 1:09 a.m. Saturday.

The St. Louis Cardinals kept the heat on Atlanta in the race for the National League's wild card berth on Saturday with a 2-1 win over the Chicago Cubs that came courtesy of a walk and a wild pitch in the ninth inning.

Nirvana completed 20 years since the launch of Nevermind.

Morgan Freeman has stirred controversy by calling the Tea Party racist, for having an anti-Obama agenda based on his skin color.

We were all wondering how Jennifer Aniston was going react after all the comments that Brad Pitt recently made in front of the media about his five-year long marriage with Aniston. Well, it seems our very own Rachel from America's most famous series Friends has really grown into a mature lady and has not let an iota of the whole episode. She is moving strong and happy with her man Justin Theroux. Doing what? Spending some real huge bucks!

The Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers and Arizona Diamondbacks advanced to the playoffs on Friday by securing the final three divisional titles.

More people have been arrested in New York City for the Occupy Wall Street protests Saturday, as activists protested in Union Square.

Barnes & Noble may try to keep Amazon from pulling too far ahead with its new Kindle tablet, expected to be unveiled at a press conference in New York on September 28.

Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has said she is not a homophobe, but that she was defending her mother during a heated exchange at a West Hollywood bar.

Ahmadinejad said Iran and Russia are “neighbors” and that “neighbors must be friends with one another.

Adoboli is hardly the first UBS employee to engage in questionable conduct.

A 100-year-old Aborigine lock of hair is leading scientists to rewrite the history of human migration out of Africa as we know it.

Paul McCartney's ballet debut writing an orchestral score and tale of love about an ocean dwelling princess received poor, early reviews on Friday that called his music agreeable but the story and staging bland.

Chelsea Clinton is hot. In the same week she joined Facebook, the only daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is upped her public profile in a big way by interviewing her mother on stage.

Amazon appears ready to release its new tablet, hailed by some observers as a legitimate threat to Apple's global-leading iPad. Amazon's PR firm sent an invitation to journalists Friday afternoon announcing a press conference in New York City on Sept. 28, when the company is expected to reveal its new consumer tech weapon -- the Kindle tablet. But while the tablet hasn't been revealed publicly yet, it is apparently quite real -- seen by one tech journalist already with other strong hint...

Health insurer Humana Inc (HUM.N) agreed to acquire privately held MD Care for an undisclosed amount on Friday to expand its Medicare plans for the elderly in California.

The Dow Jones industrial average on Friday suffered its worst week since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, stung by severe anxiety over Europe's spiraling debt crisis and a warning from the Federal Reserve about the U.S. economy.