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U.S. Bancorp is the latest big bank to offer an overdraft-free account. Skeptics are questioning how many Americans are benefiting from these products, and want banks to do more to market them.

In the wake of stabbing attacks and a shooting rampage last month, the German government is planning to tell citizens they should prepare themselves for a catastrophic event by having a stockpile of food and water, a Ger...

Thousands of people swarm a Taiwanese intersection in a scene reminiscent of science fiction

Autopsy results said the singer died of an accidental fentanyl overdose.          

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel.

Asian stocks meandered on Monday as investors looked ahead to the Fed's meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for clues on timing for possible interest rate hikes. …

South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korea's threat of nuclear strikes in response to the exercises that it calls an invasion rehearsal. …

In an unassuming Quezon City neighborhood, across from a municipal library and around the corner from a police station stands the local jail.

The Windy City is littered with small, privately held banks, some of which are looking to sell. Here is an overview of the challenges — and possible solutions — faced by those banks and ones like them in clogged bank...

Viacom's settlement deal between outgoing CEO Philippe Dauman and the Redstones is official.

In a middle-class city in China a family sits down for an evening dinner. The kids run around the table, the parents set the food out and call for their energetic boys to sit. …

The explosive wildfire sent thousands fleeing for their lives.

Driverless cars appear to not be ready for prime time, although drivers distracted by digital media may be just as dangerous. Cartoon by Ed Hall.

A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation.

In pictures: The best and most bizarre moments of the Rio 2016 closing ceremony

Justice Secretary Liz Truss is to set up special units within prisons to hold Islamist extremists most likely to radicalise other inmates.

Stenhouse finished second behind Kevin Harvick Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway.          

As both presidential candidates campaign against it, the White House is negotiating with Republicans in Congress to ratify the largest regional trade agreement ever.

The Salvation Army charity says it has seen nearly a five-fold rise in the number of slavery victims it has helped in England and Wales since 2012.

France's former conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy has formally announced he is running for the presidency again in next year's elections.

Under President Rodrigo Duterte, 712 suspects have died in police operations and 1,067 have been killed by vigilantes, the nation's police chief says.

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in U.S. public schools. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth i...