Bored with board games and bingo, residents of an elderly people's home in France are taking on interactive console games lik...

A town famous for honouring dead British soldiers returning from Afghanistan has reacted defiantly to news that a controversi...

The Russian Government has set a minimum for price for vodka that more than doubles the cost of cheapest voldka on the market...

At least 70 people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the middle of a volleyball game in northwe...

Dec. 31: The stock market rally since last March has failed to offset the decade's losses. NBC's Lester Holt reports. (Nightl...

CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera sits in for Maria Bartiromo to discuss the day's top business and financial news, and look ahe...

Mad Money host Jim Cramer advises his audience not to be a passive investor. Rather, he says, use market downturns to boost y...

CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera sits in for Maria Bartiromo to discuss the day's top business and financial news, and look ahe...

Thursday's session capped double-digit year-end gains for the major averages despite plunging earlier in the year.

Despite a rocky start, stocks posted stellar gains in 2009.