Stephen Smith

In 2006, a Sudanese woman who had been held captive by bin Laden as a sex slave wrote of the terrorist mastermind's obsession with Whitney Houston.

U.S. gas prices have risen above $3.50 per gallon unusually early this year, foreshadowing an expensive year for motorists looking to fill up the tank.

Builders of the 2,073-foot Shanghai Tower have announced a partnership with Mitsubishi to outfit the skyscraper with a 40 mph elevator.

The Colombia singer tweeted that she was attacked by a Blackberry-seeking sea lion in Cape Town, South Africa.

On the one-year anniversary of the tiny Gulf nation's uprising, Bahrainis try to return to Pearl Square, the symbol of the revolution, while the government tries to stop them

The Supreme Court justice, his wife, and friends were ambushed by a machete-wielding robber on Thursday at their Caribbean vacation home, who stole $1,200 from the party.

According to her publicist, the Queen of Pop passed away this afternoon, but no cause of death was immediately given.

Mitt Romney was the winner of both this year's CPAC straw poll and Maine's caucuses, with 38 percent and 39 percent of the votes, respectively.

State-owned news agency SANA is reporting that Brig. Gen. Issa al-Khouli was killed Saturday morning as he left his home in Damascus

A source has told American Banker that the terms of this week's massive national mortgage servicing settlement have not been finalized, and that politics drove Thursday's announcement

Andrew Breitbart is seen losing it at Occupy Wall Street protesters at CPAC, calling them filthy, creepy, murdering freaks and telling them to stop raping people

After a tough week on Wall St. following a disappointing earnings report, questions are being asked about the daily deal company's longterm strategy

The House transportation bill seems unlikely to advance much further, coming under fire from fiscal conservatives, environmentalists, and transit activists

Google is developing a wireless streaming home entertainment system, which it will manufacture and sell under its own brand

The former Death Row Records exec was arrested in Las Vegas after marijuana was found in his car during a traffic stop

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was seen in a video posted to jihadi forums today welcoming the militant Somali group al-Shabaab into the international terrorist organization.

Eastern Europe has been hit the hardest by the cold snap, with shipping suspended and hundreds dead across the continent

Journalist Roland Martin was suspended indefinitely from CNN today, after coming under criticism for a Super Bowl tweet that many found homophobic

Istanbul was ranked as the European city with the best prospects for 2012 by PricewaterhouseCooper and the Urban Land Institute, with German cities also on top.

In two separate reports, a high level Iranian Revolutionary Guard official and 15,000 troops are said to have arrived in Syria recently to aid Assad in his battle against rebel forces throughout the country.

Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir for his contribution to WikiLeaks.

Amazon.com will begin collecting sales taxes on orders from Pennsylvania in September, on the heels of a California settlement where it agreed to begin collecting sales in the Golden State also beginning September.

The longtime libertarian-leaning Republican presidential candidate told Piers Morgan that emergency contraception is okay in cases of honest rape, but doubted that a woman who's seven-months pregnant would be telling the truth.

In a bid to revive the struggling agency, Vladimir Popovkin, head of Roscosmos, has announced a contest to recruit cosmonauts for manned moon missions beginning in 2020.

As the Susan G. Komen foundation finds itself in the crosshairs of liberal, and now conservative, activists over its changing position on Planned Parenthood, a new documentary casts the organization and its pink ribbons in a harsh light.

A breathtaking photo taken from the crane on the 90th floor of 1 WTC, looking out on downtown Manhattan, the Lower East Side, and New York's East River bridges.

Facadism, or the architectural practice of building modern structures behind old facades, is hard to get right, but when it is, the result is much more than the sum of its parts.