| Obama donates Nobel Peace Prize money US President Barack Obama has donated the $1.4 million that came with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the White House said... | |
| US raises concerns about human rights in Pakistan Extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani military in the ongoing fight with insurgents have further added to human rights concerns in the country, the US State Department said... |
| Won't mind falling in love with a woman: Lady Gaga American singer Lady Gaga has no boundaries on her relationships and says she won't mind falling in love with a... |
| Obama names Hillary Clinton authority for India n-deal President Barack Obama has delegated his authority to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to send mandatory certifications regarding the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal to the US Congress after every six... |
| Obama names Clinton as certification authority of Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal United States President Barack Obama has appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the new certification authority to verify the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement after every six... |
| Girlicious singer arrested with cocaine Natalie Mejia, a member of US band Girlicious, has been arrested after drugs were found in her purse, police told The Los Angeles... |
| US unconvinced over Pak Army's U-turn against Taliban commanders: Expert Pakistan has been claiming huge success against the Taliban by capturing several key militant leaders, including Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban's second-in command, however the United States is far from convinced that the arrests mark a change in the Pakistan Army's... |
| Jamie Jungers says Tiger Woods never tipped waitstaff Jamie Jungers, who has won Howard Stern's Tiger Woods' mistress beauty pageant, has revealed that the golfer never tipped waitstaff when they were... |
| Madonna, daughter team up for fashion line for teens Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, have collaborated on a fashion line for teenage girls that debuts this August exclusively at... |
| Mariah Carey plans to work with Woody Allen Mariah Carey has never met director Woody Allen, but she plans to work with him some... |
| Walmart under fire for cutting price of black Barbies to nearly half of white ones American supermarket chain Walmart has received flak for selling black Barbie dolls at a lesser price than white... |
| Jay-Z scraps plan to invest in NY racetrack casino project Rapper Jay-Z is said to have scrapped plans to invest in a racetrack casino project in New York after state officials allegedly ordered all backers to hand over detailed records of their... |
| Soon, therapeutic socks for diabetics American scientists have developed a new nitric oxide-releasing cloth that may come handy in making a wrap for donor organs and therapeutic socks for... |
| New ways for heart treatment A new American study has suggested new ways to improve heart... |
| Kayani, Pasha continue Pak's traditional anti-India agenda: NYT The report regarding Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani extending the tenure of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General (DG) Lt.Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha by a year clearly suggests that nothing much has changed in the country and two still rule the... |
| Man earns Guinness World Record for world's largest house of cards! An American man has earned himself a Guinness World Record after he built the world's largest ever house of... |
| 'Jihad Jane's' extreme views were unknown to her Penn state neighbours The Pennsylvania woman linked this week to an alleged terrorist plot involving militant Muslims was not known in her neighbourhood for her extreme religious... |
| Parents pass on fewer bad genes to kids Scientists in the U.S. have for the first time unlocked the genetic code of an entire family, and discovered that parents give kids fewer mutations than previously... |
| Average women spend $13k each on makeup in their lifetime An average woman will spend 13,000 dollars on makeup during her lifetime, a new survey has... |
| Chewing gum can give you wrinkles A constant gum-chewing habit can cause wrinkles to pop up, health experts... |
| Indian-American professor turns chicken feathers into fuel Manoranjan 'Mano' Misra, an Indian American professor known for turning coffee grounds and chicken feathers into fuel, been honoured as the 2010 Regents' Researcher by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of... |
| Forbes says Gates no longer the world's richest Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 per cent over the last... |
| Kc Superintendent Says School Closings Are Painful KANSAS CITY, Mo. Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but "unquestionably the right thing to... |
| Ny Attorney General Recuses Self In Paterson Probe FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 14, 2010, New York Gov. David Paterson, left, talks with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo at a meeting of the New York State Association of Black and Puerto... |
| Trucker Convicted In 2 Small-town Mich. Killings CORUNNA, Mich. A jury convicted a trucker of first-degree murder Thursday in the shootings of an abortion protester and a businessman in a small Michigan community, rejecting claims that the... |
| Blagojevich Asks Judge To Delay Corruption Trial CHICAGO Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attorneys are asking a federal judge to postpone his corruption trial, saying they can't be ready by the scheduled June 3 start date. The... |
| Us Man Held As Terrorist Had Been In Yemen 2 Years This frame grab made from video provided by NBC.40 television shows Charles Mobley, father of Sharif Mobley, on Thursday March 11, 2010 outside his home in Buena, N.J. The FBI is investigating the... |
| Highway Deaths Drop To Lowest Level Since 1950s WASHINGTON The roads today are full of hazards: Runaway Toyotas, teen drivers texting, commuters using the rearview mirror to check their hair while juggling cups of scalding coffee.... |
| Us Police Departments Seeking More Bilingual Cops NYPD police officer Michael Belogorodsky, second from left, speaks with a man in Russian in New York, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit... |
| Acorn Agrees To Give Up Its Ohio Business License COLUMBUS, Ohio The community organizing group ACORN has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to give up its Ohio business license and not return under another name. ACORN was sued by the... |
| Obama Gives Away $1.4m Nobel Prize WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has announced which groups will get the $1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama said Thursday that $250,000 will go to Fisher... |
| Cops: Man Copies Key On Test Drive, Steals Truck LINCOLN, Neb. Police said a man did more than take a pickup for a spin during a test drive this week. Red Star Auto of Lincoln reported a pickup had been stolen Tuesday night or early... |
| Tenn. Police File 10th Dui Charge Against Driver KINGSPORT, Tenn. Kingsport Police have filed a 10th DUI charge against a driver who was going about 20 miles per hour on Interstate 26 and weaving. The Kingsport Times -News reported that the... |
| Devotees Of Fla. Man Say They Ingested Snail Mucus MIAMI Devotees of a man claiming to practice a traditional African religion said they had to ingest the mucus of a Giant African Snail that sickened them. Federal authorities in January... |
| Ny Attorney General To Comment On Paterson Probe ALBANY, N.Y. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is planning an announcement about his investigation of Gov. David Paterson, the governor's state police security detail and some of his... |
| Al-qaida Seen Eyeing Less Complex Attacks On Us WASHINGTON Ever since al-Qaida attacked America in 2001, U.S. authorities have worked to detect and prevent the next big terrorist strike. But officials and counterterrorism experts say... |
| Court Upholds 'under God' In Pledge Of Allegiance SAN FRANCISCO A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on... |
| Acorn Gives Up Ohio Business License, Won't Return By JULIE CARR SMYTHAP STATEHOUSE CORRESPONDENT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The community organizing group ACORN has agreed to give up its Ohio business license and not return under another name, as it has... |
| Alert: Bloomberg To Gather Healthcare Experts In Chicago, April 27th The Bloomberg Health & America Briefing will convene a live audience of 100 top representatives from government, medical schools, insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, corporate boards and... |
| School Cuts A No-win Lesson For All Members of the Kansas City School Board listen to citizens during a meeting Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. The school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay... |
| Yemen Holds N.j. Man After Al-qaida Shootout BUENA, N.J. - Yemen counterterrorism authorities captured a U.S. citizen of Somali origin after he shot his way out of a hospital in the Middle Eastern country, where he was being held after a sweep... |
| Korean Air Chairman Yang-ho Cho To Speak At Town Hall Los Angeles Yang-Ho Cho, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Korean Air will address TOWN HALL Los Angeles with the keynote "Planes, Cranes and Change," during a noon luncheon... |
| Johnson Leads 12th-seed Miami Past Wake 83-62 GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Redshirt freshman Reggie Johnson scored a season-high 22 points against his hometown school and 12th-seeded Miami routed fifth-seeded Wake Forest 83-62 on Thursday in the first... |
| Can Textbooks Pass The Reagan Test? If you want to know just what your kids are learning from their history books, all you have to do is apply the "Reagan test," says Professor Larry Schweikart. As the Texas textbook battle continues... |
| Lesbian Teen Back At School After Prom Drama JACKSON, Miss. An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student says she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she returned to school after officials canceled the senior prom because of her... |
| Report Claims Afghan, Iraq Human Rights Abuses Up As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, the State Department is blaming the Iraqi government for arbitrary killings of civilians and other human rights... |
| Liveshots: Palin-mccain Visit Starting To Shape Former Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be in Arizona the last weekend of March as part of Senator John McCain's re-election campaign. Details of that trip... |
| Feds Recall More Children Jewelry In Cadmium Probe Federal regulators expanded their efforts Thursday to go after children's jewelry that contains high levels of the toxic metal cadmium by telling parents to throw away... |
| Yemen Holds Nj Man After Al-qaida Sweep, Shootout (AP Photo/NBC.40) MANDATORY CREDITThis frame grab made from video provided by NBC.40 television shows Charles Mobley, father of Sharif Mobley, on Thursday March 11, 2010 outside his home in Buena,... |
