The Federal Reserve warned this week that financial markets remained under heavy pressure as it announced that it was holding American interest rates.
At least 13 people were killed on Friday when a chartered bus carrying Vietnamese churchgoers plunged off a highway bridge in Texas.
Scientists have found ways to tease even more clues out of fingerprints’ telltale marks.
The Democrats’ primary battle came back to haunt Hillary Clinton on Thursday, a day before she sets off on a solo campaign swing for Barack Obama.
After two years in prison, Tremayne Durham could stand it no longer. His craving for a bit of nosh was so intense that he agreed to pay a high price.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews photographer Annie Leibovitz’s Annie Leibovitz: Life through a Lens.
Hillary Clinton’s virulent attacks on Barack Obama during their primary epic returned to haunt her on Thursday.
Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an internet flaw.
A jury convicted Osama bin Laden’s former driver of supporting terrorism on Wednesday in the first war-crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay.
MySpace announced on Wednesday it is launching a website devoted to the United States presidential debates.
During a lengthy reunion tour, The Police didn’t necessarily resolve the conflicts that blew apart one of rock’s most successful groups.
Reigning Masters champion Trevor Immelman insists that there is no place for golf, basketball and tennis at the Olympic Games.
HIV/Aids vaccine researchers should move to smaller, more focused trials and dump any vaccines that do not show strong promise.
A farmer has erected a fence made of three old cars sticking up in the air to send a message to new neighbours that he can do whatever he wants.
Barack Obama reversed his position over petrol prices on Monday in the face of polls showing it has emerged as the dominant issue of the election.
Tropical Storm Edouard was forecast to reach near-hurricane strength as it headed towards the gulf coast of Texas on Tuesday.
The Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was said to be in a serious condition after the car he was driving flipped over several times late on Sunday.
Officials in Texas have defied the International Court of Justice to affirm the scheduled execution on Tuesday of a Mexican national.
Vijay Singh on Sunday closed with a two-under 68 for a one-shot victory in the Bridgestone Invitational.
The row between the two United States presidential candidates over the use of race as a campaign weapon rumbled through the weekend.
A 12-year-old girl who fell into a chimney on her Manhattan rooftop and plummeted down the flue for 14 storeys survived almost unscathed.
In the case of Joss Whedon, it was boredom, not necessity, that proved the mother of invention.
In New York, one name has always stood out among restaurants: Cipriani. But now the Cipriani family has been hit by a series of legal disasters.
The number of Americans infected by Aids each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, US health officials have revealed.
Nude dancing remains an art in the American state of Iowa.
Rafael Nadal marked a changing of the guard in tennis on Friday with a quarterfinal victory at the Cincinnati Masters.
The gloom surrounding the motor industry deepened on Friday when General Motors announced a ,5-billion loss and BMW issued a profits warning.
A long-forgotten and inspiring perspective of the Twin Towers emerges in a new documentary by British filmmaker James Marsh.
Ludacris’s new song, Politics as Usual, may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Nasa scientists on Thursday night confirmed that there is water on Mars. The space agency’s Phoenix lander has identified ice in a soil sample.
A US biodefence researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file charges against him in the anthrax mailings.
Tony Snow, who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President George Bush’s press secretary, has died.