High winds and rough seas hampered efforts on Saturday to prevent an oil slick from reaching US shores and wreaking enormous environmental damage.
An apparent failed car bomb in a vehicle that was smoking and emitted a small "flash" caused police to evacuate New York’s Times Square on Saturday.
Sadly, there is no cure for megalomania. But venture capitalists ought to start funding the search for a cure, because it’s costing a lot of money.
Comparisons with the response to Hurricane Katrina are already being made, but the spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not a political albatross — yet.
An oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Thursday.
Experts have thrown a spanner in the works, questioning its efficacy in fighting climate change.
Hopes are high that a study of a broad-based preventative approach will dramatically reduce prevalence among particularly vulnerable miners.
Woods’ golf rehabilitation continues on Thursday at the Quail Hollow Championship, three weeks after he ended a five-month hiatus from the game.
We’ll never know what difference US participation in an arms trafficking treaty might have made thanks to the gun lobbies, argues Bernd Debusmann.
Republicans hung together on Tuesday and again thwarted Democratic efforts to start formal debate on legislation to rein in Wall Street excesses.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on Tuesday faced a blistering cross-examination from US lawmakers about the company’s behaviour toward its clients.
The United States extradited former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France on Monday to face money-laundering charges.
Sweeping legislation to rein in Wall Street suffered a temporary setback in the United States Senate on Monday.
Embattled Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein will tell lawmakers on Tuesday the company did not bet on the collapse of the housing market.
By the time you discover whether you’ve been tapped for the path to respect and cash handouts, or for a bullet through the brain, it will be too late.
Former US president writes about "never-before-heard detail" of 9/11, his alcoholism, and mistakes and achievements while in White House.
The two newspaper heavyweights are poised to do battle as Rupert Murdoch’s <i>Journal</i> challenges Arthur Sulzberger’s <i>Times</i>.
A United States Senate investigative panel has released several emails that could prove embarrassing to Goldman Sachs.
A tornado nearly a kilometre wide ripped through central Mississippi on Saturday, killing 10 people, including three children.
Goldman Sachs is preparing to defend itself against the US government allegations by arguing that it was unsure where housing prices were headed.
Former economics student David Kernell faces up to 50 years in jail if convicted of hacking into email account.
The current show at New York’s Moma has rubbed up against an unexpected problem.
Some of the richest and most powerful people in the US are arguing about money and the world has trillions of dollars invested in the outcome.
A routine anti-virus update from web security firm McAfee confused a valid Windows file with a virus on Wednesday, disrupting computers worldwide.
WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley feared he would never get to fight fellow American Floyd Mayweather, until "destiny" played its part.
Light ’em up! The historic hotel Normandie in Los Angeles’s Koreatown held a grand reopening on Tuesday for a special clientele — marijuana smokers
Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot smashed the course record to win the Boston Marathon men’s race on Monday, while Teyba Erkesso captured the women’s title.
Iraqi security forces backed by United States troops killed al-Qaeda’s top two leaders in Iraq.
President Barack Obama will this week demand swift action on reforms designed to purge a high-risk and excess-riddled Wall Street culture.
Goldman Sachs sees pressure building on both sides of the Atlantic, two days after it was charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Toyota has agreed to pay the United States government a fine of nearly $16,4-million for concealing accelerator pedal defects.
Anglo American, the London-listed mining group, will face accusations that it risks damaging one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats.