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You’re competing against young people in Beijing and Mumbai. Those kids are hungry, they’re working hard and you’ll need to be prepared for it, president Barack Obama said to U.S. high school graduates.

The Mississippi River crest is slowly moving south, with the river expected to crest at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana this week.

Fifty percent of people believe the US stock market will drop more than 30 percent in the next 12 months, according to the latest Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index poll.

There's no such thing as home sweet home if the place you live in is making you depressed. If your place is giving you mental stress, it will greatly affect you. Some states are depressive because of the economic instability and the inadequate access to health care. Here are the top 10 most depressing states in the U.S.

NASA uses satellite cameras to take images of the Mississippi River floods that have ravaged Tennessee and the southeast.

Early this morning, the Mississippi River crested at 47.79 feet in Memphis, Tennessee, 13.79 feet higher than flood stage and the second highest level on record.

Shelby County Sherrif Bill Oldham said on Monday that law enforcement is keeping close watch and will arrest anyone breaking laws amid a difficult time in Memphis, Tennessee as it copes with a flood of historic proportions along the Mississippi river.

Memphis area residents have been warned that they are at risk of dangerous flooding as the region braces for the highest Mississippi River crest since 1937. Check out some of the latest pictures of the slowly rising Mississippi River floodwaters.

The Islamic Republic of Iran finds itself grappling with new realities in a Middle East that has been turned upside-down by an unprecedented wave of revolt and rebellion

The series of tornadoes and thunderstorms that have swept past the southern U.S. state of Alabama and seven others, have claimed at least 311 lives so far and have left the city of Tuscaloosa in ruins, flattening entire city blocks.

More than 1 million customers are without electricity in Southern states on Thursday in the wake of devastating storms with tornadoes which have officially killed 305 people, mostly in Alabama.

Tornadoes and thunderstorms, termed catastrophic by U.S. President Barack Obama, that swept across the southern United States the past few days, left a trail of death and destruction - properties worth millions of dollars were damaged, nearly 300 people are dead and hundreds of thousands injured.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has shut down its undamaged Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in northern Alabama, cooling its reactors after power transmission lines into the plant were knocked out by severe storms in the state.

Alabama officials have declared an emergency at a nuclear power plant in the northern part of the state and have started shutting it down in the aftermath of severe storms and tornadoes that have pounded the state.

Alabama's state emergency management agency said Thursday that it had confirmed 128 deaths from severe and deadly storms which have included tornados and ravaged Southern states in recent days.

American Pharmacies, a member-owned independent pharmacy cooperative based in Texas, is taking on Humana and Walmart via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for discriminating against some pharmacies in Humana’s new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan (PDP).

The National Weather Service predicted severe thunderstorms and chances of tornadoes across six southern states Tuesday afternoon and into Wednesday, as severe weather continues to impact the region.

International Business Times spoke to Dilshod Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tenn., to discuss Turkey’s evolving role in the Middle East, how it is handling the revolutions in the Arab world and its chances for accession into the EU.

A pair of air traffic controllers have been fired and officials are probing a Monday landing incident involving First Lady Michelle Obama, as weeks of embarrassing sleeping incidents and procedural gaffes have prompted a top-to-bottom review of federal air traffic controller training.

As the search for the missing Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo goes on, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and other law enforcement agencies is seeking public assistance in finding the 20-year old girl.

National Weather Service has predicted strong tornadoes and large hail may develop over parts of the south today through tonight and areas most likely will affect include Mississippi and Alabama.