A distraught Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Tuesday after a judge ruled that she had violated her probation.
BP ruled out a share issue and talk persisted of sovereign wealth fund interest in the British oil major, boosting its shares on Tuesday.
Book pundits in the United States are being urged to line up on one side or other: Is the American novel finally dead or not?
BP is seeking a strategic investor to secure its independence in the face of any takeover attempts as it struggles with a devastating oil leak.
With iPhone and iPad sales responsible for the majority of Apple’s revenue, the company is losing interest in what was once its keystone product.
A supertanker adapted to scoop up oil from the BP spill began tests amid a report that some expect the energy giant to replace its top executives.
Washington was preparing a revised offshore oil drilling moratorium and clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico returned to normal on Friday.
Every iPhone ever made uses a "totally wrong" formula to show signal strength, says Apple, after antenna complaints.
The former US vice-president Al Gore faces a reopened police investigation into allegations that he groped a massage therapist in hotel.
After 25 years and 50 000 interviews, Larry King has announced that he is hanging up his brightly coloured braces.
Hurricane Alex is slowing clean-up and oil-containment efforts at the site of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The US House of Representatives gave its final approval on Wednesday to the biggest overhaul of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression.
The Russian espionage drama intensfied on Wednesday as one of the suspects in the alleged "deep cover" spy ring skipped bail in Cyprus.
A relief well that might divert the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak is still weeks from completion, a top United States official said on Wednesday.
It might have been better for the environment to have done nothing about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico except to keep the oil out at sea.
Russia and the United States sought on Wednesday to cool a heated scandal sparked by the arrest of 11 suspected Kremlin spies.
Russia and the US face their most serious diplomatic crisis of the Obama era after the Kremlin denounced the arrest of 10 US-based Russian spies.
Rough weather whipped up by the season’s first Atlantic hurricane is disrupting clean-up of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A man accused of fatally beating his stepdaughter when she wouldn’t stop crying as he watched a World Cup game has been charged with capital murder.
The FBI has arrested 10 alleged Russian spies and broken up a "long-term, deep cover" network of agents across America’s east coast.
Political momentum was expected to carry a Wall Street reform Bill to approval, but the death of Senator Robert Byrd threatens to delay final action.
Joe Biden has done it again: made a gaffe in full view of the cable TV news cameras. But it’s nothing new for the vice-president.
Tropical depression Alex picked up speed over the Gulf of Mexico and regained tropical storm strength on Sunday as two key oil ports remained closed.
Tropical Storm Alex made landfall in Belize Saturday night, dumping showers on northern Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula.
Ghana, the last African team left in the World Cup, won a stirring 2-1 extra time victory over the US on Saturday to reach the quarterfinals.
Joseph Jackson files lawsuit against Conrad Murray, accusing the physician of giving the late pop star powerful drug and being slow to call for help.
United States lawmakers finalised an historic overhaul of financial regulations as dawn broke over Capitol Hill on Friday.
The oil spill piled pressure on Obama on Thursday as the hurricane season closed in and voters angry at his crisis management hammered the president.
The gusher in the Gulf of Mexico returned to full force on Thursday after BP was forced to remove a cap that had been containing some of the oil.
Barack Obama has sacked the US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, following disparaging comments made by McChrystal.
United States coach Bob Bradley, who has scowled his way through much of the World Cup, allowed himself a rare smile on Wednesday.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a catastrophe caused by human error that could have been avoided, the International Energy Agency has said.