Amazon's Kindle Fire has been available in stores and online for one month, but consumers have already begun shipping their Fire's back with serious concerns and complaints about the device. We took a look at the top 11 problems most users complained about to judge whether they should affect your decision to buy the Amazon tablet or not.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder offered a vigorous defense of the U.S. Justice Department's ability to challenge discriminatory voting laws Tuesday night, suggesting an escalating clash between the federal government and states that have passed restrictive voting laws since 2010.
Regarding the payroll tax cut extension, the scene shifts to the Democratic-controlled Senate, after the Republican-led House Tuesday passed, on a largely party-line vote, an extension that contained many pet project items that Democrats oppose, including a speed-up of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Liege, Belgium attacker Nordine Amrani killed six people on Tuesday, including his cleaning lady, a child, an elderly woman, and eventually, himself.
Mitt Romney has picked up an unexpected endorsement: that of Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell, who upset establishment Republican Mike Castle in a 2010 congressional primary in Delaware.
President Barack Obama is expected to win the re-election in 2012, according to Oliver Pursche, co-portfolio manager of GMG Defensive Beta Fund.
European shares fell on Wednesday at mid-day after the Federal Reserve warned that the Eurozone debt crisis was a risk to the U.S. economy and did not signal any fresh stimulus measures to boost growth.
India's economic gloom deepened on Wednesday as figures showed a record low rupee is adding to Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) inflation headache and an adviser to the prime minister said there was little that could be done to check the currency's slump.
Most Southeast Asian stock markets closed weaker on Wednesday in light trading volumes after the Federal Reserve warned that turmoil in Europe poses a big threat to the world's biggest economy.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expects to succeed in his push to open the domestic retail market to foreign companies after regional elections conclude by the end of March.
Worries that India's evolution into an economic superpower may be overhyped and signs the government may lack the will to further dismantle a protectionist legacy drove India-themed funds to the bottom of performance league tables in November.
A shift in the global military balance is one of the inalienable fallouts of the economic winter experienced by the Western world. While military spending in the U.S., the reigning super power, is increasingly coming under a scanner, the extended defense holiday in Europe signals that the continent’s global influence is on irreversible decline.
South Korean women, who were forced into sexual slavery during the World War II, held their 1,000 weekly protest outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul.
India's wholesale prices rose more than expected in November, leaving inflation stubbornly high and suggesting the RBI would hold rates steady at its review on Friday even as worries grow over the health of the economy.
Police in Belgium are trying to determine what motivated a local man to open fire on a busy marketplace in Liege, killing at least six people
According to reports, someone among a throng of people captured a video on Saturday of what 25,000 pro-democracy protesters in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square believed to be a UFO hovering over the crowd.
In what was probably Iran's response to growing threats made against its sovereignty, and a possible show of strength, the Middle Eastern country announced it is planning war drills to practice closing off the Strait of Hormuz -- one of the world's main oil arteries.
Uzbekistan is using torture -- both physical and psychological – on prisoners.
Fed-watchers two decades ago had a hard time speculating what the central bank's decisions were because the Fed said relatively little about its monetary policy and allowed actions to speak for themselves. However, efficient markets do not like to be kept guessing.
Moncef Marzouki has been elected the new President of Tunisia.
The law will likely prompt legal challenges, based on religious freedom provisions in the constitution.
The Federal Communications Commission got authority to adopt rules regulating the volume of television commercials when Congress passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM Act.
Miley Cyrus turned heads in a low-cut yellow dress at the CNN Hereos Awards late Sunday. It appeared that the 19-year-old Disney star may have had plastic surgery. Three experts on plastic surgery all agreed that it looks like her new look is a result of breast implants.
In a shift that could reshape the dynamics of the 2012 Republican presidential primary, a new poll shows Ron Paul almost overtaking Newt Gingrich in Iowa.
It’s not too late to save the U.S. Postal Service, the inventor of e-mail told the International Business Times.
Casseri was connected to a right wing anti-immigrant movement called Casa Pound
The U.S. Mint will cut off mass production of presidential $1 coins, making just enough to meet demand for collectors, Vice President Joe Biden announced at a Cabinet meeting.
Spending cuts proposed by a cash-strapped coalition government in London will likely also exacerbate the problem.
Donald Trump has backed out of moderating the Dec. 27 GOP debate, but those who hope the businessman and reality TV star is leaving the 2012 electoral race are destined to be disappointed. In a statement Tuesday, Trump said he was withdrawing because he is considering running as an independent and didn't want a conflict of interest to emerge.
You've seen Awkward Family Photos, where users spread the awkwardness and upload pictures from around Web of families posing together awkwardly.
But have you seen the awkward Christmas photo of San Juan, Puerto Rico mayor Jorge Santini and his family that has gone viral?
