Consumer confidence rose for a third straight month with Americans feeling more optimistic about the future.

President Obama said there were a number of failures by U.S. officials that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to smuggle expl...

A wave of scandals broke in 2009 clouding investor perceptions of Wall Street.

A Long Beach man charged with killing a U.C. Riverside English professor was found dead in a Los Angeles jail cell. Suzanne R...

British talent show phenomenon Susan Boyle arrives in Japan ahead of New Year's eve performance.

Israeli authorities detained nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu for breaking his ban on speaking to foreigners.

The once booming Baltic Tiger now faces an unemployment rate double the European Union average.

Dutch showcase new, improved airport body scanners after a Nigerian allegedly tried to blow up a passenger jet over the US on...

The British government criticised China over their decision to execute 53 year old Akmal Shaikh, who was believed to have a h...

Giant shredders are on hand in New York's Times Square to erase all of your bad memories of 2009.