A group of congressmen has sought the US citizenship for jailed Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, who helped the CIA track down and kill former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden last year in his...

Former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney secured his third victory of the GOP primary season, as television networks declared him the winner of Nevada's...

Daniel Radcliffe had to go through an awkward moment during a TV interview in Los Angeles when a fan got down on one knee and asked him to marry her.

The Harry Potter star, who is dating production...

Sam Arora is a Maryland state Delegate, Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji served on President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) and Hari Kondabalu is a rising comedy star just back from an...

Anna Kournikova has sold her Miami Beach's gated Sunset Island house for 7.4 million dollars.

The former tennis star, who has been dating Enrique Inglesias for ten years, paid 5 million dollars for...

Imams across Canada and the United States have issued a moral ruling condemning honour killings, domestic violence and misogyny as "un-Islamic."

Thirty-four imams belonging to the Islamic Supreme...

Demi Moore, who has not been spotted since her recent health crisis, is reportedly in a treatment facility and not at her Los Angeles home, as was speculated.

She is said to have checked into Cirque...

Versatile US actor Ben Gazzara died in a New York hospital of pancreatic cancer, The New York Times said. He was 81.

A student at New York's legendary Actor's Studio where other Hollywood stars like...

As a UN Security Council draft resolution to pressure Syria failed after China and Russia voted against it, India said it backed the motion as it favoured resolving the crisis through a Syrian-led...

Apart from typical running, throwing and strength training drills, the Super Bowl-bound New York Giants also reap the athletic benefits of season-long yoga sessions.

Gwen Lawrence, celebrity yoga...

Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher were seen paying a visit to Demi Moore this week as she recovered at her Los Angeles home following her collapse and hospitalization due to "exhaustion."

The...

French magazine 'Elle' has apologised for a 'racist' article posted on its website that suggested that black American elite, inspired by the Obamas, were finally embracing 'white' fashion, after it...

MUNICH — The Obama administration on Saturday called for stepped up U.S.-European cooperation to isolate tyrannies like the Assad regime in Syria, promote democracy in the Arab World and beyond...

Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to stand down. The United States said the vote has raised the risk of more bloodshed...

Protesters attacked seven Syrian embassies around the world following reports of the bloodiest episode yet in Damascus' nearly yearlong crackdown on dissent. Mobs trashed diplomats' offices...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney romped to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday, cementing his position as frontrunner to take on President Barack Obama in...

Prosecutors' first attempt to convict star pitcher Roger Clemens ended in a mistrial, so they're preparing for another attempt in two months. And now the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has...

COLEVILLE, Calif. -; A woman killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was the 31-year-old wife of a U.S. Marine, and a mother of two from Hudson, Iowa,...

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected Sunday on a one-day visit to Bulgaria, during which a string of bilateral and global issues are likely to be discussed. Saturday Clinton was...

Paul Millsap combined for 34 points Saturday and the Utah Jazz used a strong fourth quarter to overcome the Los Angeles Lakers 96-87. Jefferson finished with 18 points, Millsap added 16 and each...

The African American community in Dallas has been protesting a gas station run by a Korean-born U.S. citizen in a predominately black neighborhood in South Dallas for over a month, taking issue with...

TAMPA, Fla. - Lurvin Luzardo has lived in Tampa for more than 20 years, and while she can’t vote in the upcoming elections, she aspires to one day be a voice for the state’s...

1 of 7. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (L) and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly attend a news conference in New York in this September 8, 2011 file photo. No one thinks gun control is going...

An Occupy Oakland protester wears a Guy Fawkes mask before an anti-police march against the Oakland Police Department in Oakland, California February 4,...

"Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer," Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson explained how unprecedented wealth transfers to America's rich destroyed middle class...

via @MikeGiardi Someone behind the New York Giants’ website tried to play sports Nostradamus on Saturday, prematurely declaring the Giants champions of Sunday’s Super Bowl match with the...

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard began military exercises Saturday in the country's south, the latest show of force after threats to close the strategic Strait of...

New York's Jeremy Lin scored a career-high 25 points Saturday and the Knicks rode his hot hand to a 99-92 win over New Jersey. Lin, a second-year guard out of Harvard, put in 19 of his points...

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 5, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 photo shows Gibre George, who started a Facebook page called 'Don't Call Me African-American," in...

Statues of children with umbrellas stand in front of Children's Hospital as heavy snow falls in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. A band of heavy snow stalled over Nebraska, dumping nearly 13...

LOS ANGELES (CBS / AP) — Drew Viney scored 20 points, including the go-ahead basket with 54 seconds left, as Loyola-Marymount rallied from a 16-point deficit in the final eight minutes to...

MUNICH - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reassure Europe on Saturday that, despite budget cuts in Washington and the coming withdrawal from...

Members of the Native Mob gang have shot rivals in Minneapolis, sold drugs in Duluth, and thrown boiling water in a person's face in Crow Wing County. Authorities say they've also assaulted...

VATICAN CITY, 19 JAN 2012 (VIS) - Today in the Vatican Benedict XVI received a group of prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (Regions 4 and 6), at the end of their "ad...

Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney got a new poll boost two days before Nevada's caucuses, as real estate mogul Donald Trump endorsed him for the party's presidential nomination. The...

CAIRO -- Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One even put out...

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. -; A southeastern Indiana woman has been charged after prosecutors say she left her morbidly obese sister alive and decomposing in a chair for three weeks. A grand jury in...

FILE - This file photo released on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, provided by the Anaheim Police Dept. shows Itzcoatl Ocampo. The ex-Marine charged with killing four homeless men in Orange County has been...

Less than 24 hours before deployment, U.S. Army SPC Frantz Eliscard stood in the fifth row on a theater stage, six soldiers in, listening to a string of political and military leaders offering words...

Mitt Romney cruised to a dominating victory Saturday night in the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses, Fox News projects, leveraging a base of support that dates back to his 2008 run to notch the...

In other sports, the big-city rivalries usually come to a head in the playoff round before the championship. Here, though, the cities that love to hate each other are going for it all. Does Beantown...

Jason Pominville scored in a shootout Saturday and the Buffalo Sabres came away with a 4-3 win over the New York Islanders. Boyes tallied in the first round of the tie-breaker, firing a quick wrist...

Jeff Skinner 's goal with just over 3 minutes left in regulation Saturday was the difference in the Carolina Hurricanes' 2-1 decision over Los Angeles. Skinner was there to poke in the...

Jim Harbaugh, whose strategic wizardry and catchy slogans propelled the 49ers to the brink of the Super Bowl, was honored as the NFL coach of the year Saturday night at a lavish ceremony in...

1 of 6. A protester walks along barricades with his personal belongings as U.S. National Park Service police cordon-off the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square in Washington, February 4,...

A southeastern Indiana woman has been charged after prosecutors say she left her morbidly obese sister alive and decomposing in a chair for three weeks. A grand jury in Dearborn County near the...