Lena Dunham at Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women's Summit and answered to criticism surrounding her show "Girls." The actress, writer, director said that more actors of color will appear on season two of the HBO series.
Todd Akin's Senate campaign is standing by the congressman's allegation that women who are not pregnant are being tricked by physicians into obtaining abortions.
The stakes between Turkey and Syria have risen as Ankara responds to Syria's shelling of a town near the border
Once upon a time on MTV, rapper Kanye West stood onstage and famously said, “Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Ailing Nokia Oyj (NYSE: NOK) said it’s exploring the sale of its headquarters complex in Espoo, Finland, in a bid to raise as much as €300 million ($387.4 million).
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was reportedly refused a visit to China this year, which could have big implications for Beijing's policies in a changing region.
New Zealand has banned Mike Tyson from entering the country, due to his rape conviction from 1992.
More than 6 million visitors are expected to attend Germany's 16-day festival in Munich.
Introducing “The Guerrilla Trek,” a three-week hike across central and western Nepal along the trails where thousands of Maoist guerillas fought the 1996-2006 "People's War."
Semiconductor sales in August barely budged to $24.3 billion, despite growing demand from automakers and Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) the SIA reported.
The Obama administration is happy with its record on foreign policy. But that's not if you ask former Vice President Dick Cheney.
How important is the debate to each candidate’s hopes of winning the election? The “winner” of past debates didn’t necessarily go on to win the election.
The annual Kennedy Center Honors has honored only two Hispanics since its founding in 1978.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced on Tuesday that Taiwan would join 36 countries already participating in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), which offers entry into the U.S. without a previously arranged travel visa.
The board of MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS) has approved merger with Deutsche Telekom's (Pink: DTEGY) T-Mobile USA unit, German newspaper Financial Times Deutschland reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the deal.
Sebastian Marroquin's designer Pablo Escobar T-shirts are reportedly a hit in Mexico's biggest drug war states.
Private employers added more workers than expected in September, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.
After snapping up Cloud Computing firm Stoneware, Lenovo is expanding its hardware operations as it plans to start PC manufacturing in North Carolina in 2013, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Three bombs ripped through the center of the Syrian city of Aleppo Wednesday killing and injuring dozens, state media reported.
The Asian Development Bank cut its 2012 and 2013 growth estimates for several developing countries in Asia Wednesday, citing weakness in global demand.
The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Wednesday as market sentiment continue to be weighed down by fears of the mounting debt pressure faced by the euro zone as Spain has not yet sought help to reduce its borrowing costs.
China's non-manufacturing activity declined in September compared to that in the previous month, increasing the concerns over the slowdown in the economic growth of the country.