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Insurgents brought down an army helicopter over the northern city of Tikrit on Sunday as the military sent in tanks to try to dislodge them on second day of a major pushback against a Sunni militant takeover of large str...

Looking back on it now, the years leading up to the Lehman collapse seem like a dream. This was the era when: -- Your friend who had majored in English went to work for an investment bank. -- Your parents thought it woul...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has blasted plans to raise by more than five times hotel taxes paid by tourists, saying the move would be dangerous for tourism and France's stumbling economy.

Sympathy for machines' experience has led to a new way for them to interact with the world.

The World Cup's host nation is trying to make itself more hospitable to business, boost its economy.           

Don't get caught in a web of bad decisions. A woman in Hutchinson, Kansas, is charged with arson after police say she set her home on fire during an attempt to kill a spider, the Hutchinson News reports. Ginny M. Griffit...

An Australian rugby team released one of its players today after a photo surfaced that appears to show him pissing into his own mouth.

Because email is one of the predominant methods of professional communication, it's easy to fall behind and find yourself stuck with a cluttered or intimidatingly full inbox. Email can still be a major hassle even for pe...

During the first world war hundreds of soldiers, many of them teenage volunteers, were shot by firing squad for cowardice or desertion. Chloe Dewe Mathews's photographs of the mostly forgotten sites of their execution pr...

The Iraqi army says it is making positive advances in a counter-offensive in Tikrit, but residents say ISIS is still in control.

At least 20 die as 2 buildings collapse in India; rescue ongoing for dozen feared trapped

The Iraqi government says it has received the first batch of fighter jets it ordered from Russia to help counter an offensive by Sunni rebels.

The signs at the Texas border offer a glimpse of the enormity of the problem of unaccompanied minors trying to sneak into the US. The instructions are printed in English...

There's a simple reason why the shock 2.9% plunge in first-quarter growth should largely be ignored: companies are hiring.

Christiane Amanpour spoke with Hina Rabbani Khar, former Pakistani Foreign Minister on the issue of honor killings.

People in Hong Kong are voting on the last day of an unofficial poll on universal suffrage - a move criticised by the local and China's governments.

A metal security gate detached from the facade of an Italian ice shop Saturday afternoon, killing a 3-year-old girl, police said.

Companies Clarabridge of Reston appointed Susan Ganeshan chief marketing officer. CPS Professional Services of Fairfax appointed Bob Kremer director of program support operations and Terry Peck director of performance ex...

Competition was the main theme of the Defense Department's second annual report on acquisition performance, released earlier this month. Declining budgets may be pushing defense contractors to look for work outside the g...

Everyone is debating how long the Fed will continue to hold rates down.  Pantheon Macro's Ian Shepherdson is out with a chart showing that for the past 25 years, it's actually been quite simple to predict when the centr...

Some states are a bargain, but consumers in some states can expect to pay an extra couple of thousand dollars for costs you might not think of when you buy a car – state and local sales tax, registration fee and so-cal...