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Swedish Princess Madeleine and her British-American boyfriend, Christopher O'Neill, became engaged in early October and plan to marry in summer 2013.

In a 4-3 majority decision, the NY Supreme Court ruled that lap dances are not dramatic performances like ballets are, thus they're not applicable for tax exemptions.

Traders on Friday marked the final day of the rowdy "open outcry" practices that used to define the New York commodity trading pits.

Currently unsure of Quazi Nafis' citizenship, Bangladeshi diplomats in the U.S. will meet with State Department officials about the alleged terror suspect.

FBI officials claim Nafis moved to the country specifically to carry out terror attacks, not to pursue higher education

Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for president, was arrested and removed from Hofstra University hours before the Presidential debate.

Kateri Tekakwitha was converted to Catholicism by Jesuit priests and spent much of her short, grim life struggling from the ravages of smallpox, including partial blindness.

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is expected to report lower third-quarter revenue, but earnings should rise at least 5%.

Actress Taryn Manning appeared in court on Friday and was charged with attacking her makeup artist.

Watching financial announcements from big companies in the PC sector resembles a jalopy falling apart. Is the tablet age here?

The novel depicts a world of relentless violence, hostility, greed and an endlessly depressing cornucopia of amoral and feral behavior.

Caribbean immigrants are diverse: they may be black, white, Latino, East Indian, Chinese, Arab, Christian, Muslim, or Hindu.

American Airlines may fire people.

Nicole Richie, 33, stunned the masses when she wore an $8,000 Mathieu Mirano gown to the ALMA Awards in Pasadena on Sunday, E! News reported.

New York University School of Medicine researcher Leonardo Trasande and his colleagues examined urinary BPA levels in a sample of nearly 3,000 children and adolescents, including 1,047 children scored as overweight and 590 scored as obese.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.

Major League Baseball said it will investigate the gay slur written in Spanish on the eye black Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar.

Steve Sabol, one of the founding members of NFL Films, died this morning after he lost his battle with brain cancer at the age of 69.

Anyone who's ever watched an interview with Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte knows that he isn't the most intelligent of public figures. That's why Seth MacFarlane Saturday Night Live portrayal of Lochte as dimwitted was pretty dead on. Now the athlete has reacted to the Family Guy creator's Weekend Update spoof.

The leader of Lebanon's militant Islamist political party Hezbollah has issued a proclamation calling for the death of the producers of the highly controversial film, Innocence of Muslims, which has sparked outrage, protests and violent attacks throughout the Islamic world.

The Chinese demonstrators smashing windows and burning Japanese cars aren't fired up about just islands in the East China Sea. Their grievances go back all the way to the 1930s.