Headline News

A 74.79-carat, pear-shaped diamond fetched more than $14.1 million at Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels sale Wednesday, setting an auction record for any white diamond sold in the Americas.

Don't let allergies derail your love of travel. Here's some tips from experts on dealing with various allergies when away from home.

What do you do with 6,000 tons of space junk traveling at thousands of miles an hour? Harpoon it of course.

It's a surreal and horrifying scene. Father and daughter are in a truck that's parked in a relatively distant field, behind a fence. They're watching a building burn.

Authorities have arrested a Mississippi man believed responsible for letters apparently tainted with the poison ricin that were sent to President Obama and government offices, including that of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.

ZHENGZHOU/CHONGQING, China

Ricin Mailer Charged With Threatening the President

Another epic fail by Congress... Background check legislation for criminals and others who should never own a weapon failed. The inside the Beltway tricks prevented a majority vote on the legislation.

There have been fresh clashes in Bahrain ahead of this Sunday's Formula 1, as activists call for the race to be cancelled.

Up to 70 people have been killed and hundreds injured after an explosion at a fertiliser plant in Texas, according to reports.

The actions of a British man who died when the coach he was driving crashed in the French Alps helped to save the lives of others, officials say.

Authorities pinpoint two backpack-toting men believed to have been acting suspiciously around the time of the Boston Marathon bombings.BOSTON -- Authorities have obtained clear images of the faces of two men with backpac...

Images are released by police of 10 football fans wanted in connection with disorder at Saturday's FA Cup semi-final between Millwall and Wigan.

This July, Christian Lacroix will be back, during Paris's couture season. After a four-year hiatus, the much-missed French fashion designer is creating a capsule collection for the house of Schiaparelli. The 15 unique pi...

Ashoka Associate Neerali Patel shares five things aspiring changemakers can learn from microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus.

Amanda Knox thought she might rather die than spend another day in prison. She contemplated suicide. In her new memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard," to be released by Harper Collins on April 30, Knox details her four years in ...

(Reuters) - Google Inc's core Internet business grew net revenue 23 percent in the first quarter to $9.99 billion as the company's search advertising business continued to show strength.

The opposition is still calling for a recount claiming there was intimidation and fraud in Sunday's election.

U.S. President Barack Obama failed to keep his 2008 election promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp at a U.S. naval base in Cuba because the world had stopped watching. Europeans, delighted at his election and p...

North Korea says it is ready to talk if UN sanctions against it are withdrawn and if the US and South Korea put an end to joint military drills.

Earlier today an email leaked from a University of Maryland student and, due to its expletive-filled, fiery rhetoric worthy of David Mamet, it almost instantly went viral. The message, sent to the young woman's sorority ...

British graphic designer was responsible for some of the most memorable album artwork of all time Storm Thorgerson, the British graphic designer behind some of the most memorable album covers of all time, including Pink ...