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'Linsanity' slammed into hockey-mad Canada with the force of a winter storm on Tuesday as Jeremy Lin, the National Basketball Association's (NBA) newest sensation, set hearts aflutter with a Valentine's Day visit to the league's most northern outpost.

Linsanity travels across the border Tuesday night as the Knicks play in Toronto. Lin held his own press conference as 16 different cameras filmed the point guard being peppered with questions from reporters.

President Barack Obama was characteristically reticent on the issue of gay marriage.

A kiss may be just a kiss, but when sweethearts pucker up on Valentine's Day, they will be participating in one of the most bizarre and unlikely of human activities.

In a YouTube video posted in Aug. 2010, Jeremy Lin, the NBA Knicks’ rising star, explores New York City for the first time and narrates the experience. In the short video, Lin comes across as the humble, intelligent and upbeat player that his New York fans have come to love over the last few weeks. However, the California-born player makes several prophetic comments while on camera during his first visit to New York with his home team, the Golden State Warriors.

The decision that freed Amanda Knox may be overturned. On Tuesday, Italian prosecutors appealed to the country's highest criminal court against overturned convictions of murder against American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. The two allegedly brutally murdered a British student, Meredith Kercher.

The trial of George Huguely continued into its sixth day as prosecutors and defense attorneys questioned the medical examiner who inspected Yeardley Love's body.

The robbery of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the island of Nevis highlights a growing concern for vacationers about the safety of the Caribbean Islands.

Xstrata PLC is looking to sell 20 percent of its proposed A$6 billion (US$6.4 billion) Wandoan Coal Project, to take place west of the Wandoan township in Queensland, Australia.

A Chinese tech firm that says it owns the iPad trademark, plans to seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc's computer tablets from China, a lawyer for the company said.

India's determination to pursue trade with Iran despite Western sanctions could be undermined as wary exporters back away from fresh deals following a bomb attack in New Delhi blamed on Tehran, a trade association chief said on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama on Monday proposed more aggressive deficit reductions through savings from Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs than the White House put forward just five months ago.

No Indian government will ever censor social media, Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said, seeking to calm fears of a China-style crackdown on companies like Google and Facebook.

The tech giant Apple is facing a great challenge - the iPads have been removed from the shelves in northern China due to the trademark dispute between Apple and Chinese company Proview International.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has taken a lot of heat from his decision to ban worship services from public schools, defended his administration's decision Monday.

The top aftermarket NYSE losers Monday were: Masco Corp, Quantum Corp, Calgon Carbon, Brink's, Calpine Corp, HealthSouth Corp, Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes and Carbo Ceramics.

Proview, which won a court ruling that it owns the iPad name in China, has said that it will ask customs officials to ban import and export of Apple's iPads.

Barman Liam Lloyd Warriner, from Sydney, was fined AU$750 or US$800 for mooning Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, during a royal visit to Australia last year. Warriner has said he would do it again,

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.

Rick Santorum may want to discuss economic policy, but the candidate is spending his time talking about social issues as his campaign gets a new surge of support.

A Belgian court has ruled that Tintin in the Congo does not break racism laws and therefore will not be banned in the country