Lawmakers were still unable to reach an agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling on Friday, but there is no arguing that the dollar's safe-haven appeal should remain trumped by the Swiss franc and Japanese yen.
The busy NFL week continues to stay busy.
Kim Kardashian is getting married, but two years ago, she was already trying on wedding dresses!
After initially declining President Barack Obama's May offer to accompany him at memorial services at Ground Zero, former President George W. Bush has changed his mind, saying he will stand side-by side with the commander-in-chief to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The store's sign indicated furniture for sale but the transactions hardly involved the stuff of residential decor: in New York City, 11 people have been arrested for allegedly being part of a drug ring that sold marijuana out of a furniture store.
What to expect from Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach
Rob Cohen is set to direct the most expensive film in the history of the Korean film industry.
Colorado Rockies' ace Ubaldo Jimenez is on the trade market and it appears that division rivals Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees are in the hunt for the pitcher.
After being officially reinstated by the NFL, embattled wide receiver Plaxico Burress is being courted in style by the New York Giants, his former team.
The sweepstakes for Oakland Raiders' cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha is down to two teams - the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.
The world's population will surpass seven billion people by the end of 2011 and ten billion by 2100, but can earth sustain that many people? Demographers are concerned that explosive population growth in the developing world could drain the earth's resources and threaten global economies.
The Speaker struggles to hold his party together.
Hideki Irabu the former Yankees fastball pitcher was found dead on Wednesday by his friend at home near Los Angeles.
Opening on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan, the World Trade Center Memorial is nearly complete. Here's a look at the workers as they put the finishing touches on the tree-lined plaza.
The debt deal saga is becoming a defining moment for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Former New York Yankee pitcher Hideki Irabu was found dead on Wednesday. His body was reportedly found by his friend. He was 42 years old.
Some major bond fund managers are asking their institutional clients to consider waiving strict requirements that might force mass selling of Treasury bonds if the United States loses its AAA rating.
He grew into other roles in films after James Bond film.
Google+ was launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite-only ?field testing? phase and the service has incorporated social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and has introduced new services such as Circles, Hangouts, Sparks, and Huddles.
A NY auto mechanic survived for nearly 18 hours adrift Lake Huron without a life jacket after his small two-seat Cessna crashed 17 miles from the Michigan shoreline.
"Higgs Boson," "Large Hadron Collider (LHC)" and CERN seem to have more or less become household words, even though it will take many patient sessions with a physicist to fully understand what is going on at CERN and what are the implications of a research of this large a scale.
Libyan Eman al-Obeidy, the alleged rape victim who grabbed worldwide media attention on March 26 after accusing Muammar Gaddafi's forces of gang-raping her, has come to the United States to stay for good.