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This week, leaders from India and the United States will gather in Washington to discuss our expanding cooperation on everything from trade to technology to terrorism. There also will be issues on which we don't see eye to eye, and some of those may dominate the media coverage.

Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell Thursday amid report of cut in Spain's credit rating and disappointing data from the U.S.

U.S. investors are getting back into real estate, but their efforts are being complicated by the uncertain housing market.

Lance Armstrong, America's most famous cyclist, is facing formal doping charges from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that could cost him his seven Tour de France titles, it emerged late Wednesday.

Of more than 2,500 U.S. veterans with an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, men who were obese at diagnosis had only about two-thirds the risk of dying during the study period that normal-weight men had, after considering other factors like age and overall health.

Precious and industrial metals have been moving higher over the past few sessions in spite of fundamentals, suggesting commodities traders are loading up on the physical assets in anticipation of seeing at least one of the world's major central banks turn on the money spigots later this month.

For a variety of reasons, it's pretty much impossible that you would have to worry about getting AIDS from a mosquito bite.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 will be launching in the U.S on schedule, after Apple lost a bid to impose a court ban on the phone.

Anarchists have been arrested for a spate of bomb attacks in Italy, and are being blamed for violence in Europe and the U.S. Is this the comeback of a movement that was considered a big threat a century ago?

Dinner with Barack -- for the liberal Democrat, few things sound better than free food with their fearless leader. Four prize dinners with the Great One -- awarded by drawing -- have come and gone; but have no fear, Dinner with Barack V is here.

The US Open kicks off from San Francisco on Thursday. Here's a list of five players to watch during the tournament.

Openet, one of Ireland?s flourishing software developers, said it raised an additional $21 million from investors in Japan, Europe and the U.S., bringing the cumulative total raised in 13 years to $55 million.

Something strange is going to take place next week at the G-20 summit: Europe, long accustomed to sending aid through the International Monetary Fund to developing nations, will pass a collection plate to many of those same countries. But to get such help, which could be as much as $105 billion from four major emerging economies, European nations will have to surrender some control of the IMF.

It seems that since the very beginning of the European debt crisis the half-life of announced bailout measures is steadily contracting

Police in Berlin released the photos of the English-speaking boy who walked out of the woods near the city limits nine months ago claiming he had been living in the forest for five years with his father.

In anticipation of an imminent Supreme Court decision on Arizona's tough new immigration law, Gov. Jan Brewer is re-issuing a video training officers on how to spot undocumented immigrants.

Goodfellas was the greatest gangster movie ever made, but it took a lot of creative license when it came to its characters.

Protestors were present on Wednesday, June 13, when JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon testified on Capitol Hill in Washington. The activists reportedly heckled Dimon as the head of the largest bank in the U.S arrived to take his seat at a Senate Banking Committee hearing.

The Mexican drug cartels are notorious for the decapitated bodies they leave along the dusty highways south of the border, but they'd rather keep a low profile about another activity of theirs on U.S. soil -- horse racing.

The U.S. natural gas industry will create 1.5 million jobs by 2015, in large part because of the surge in production from unconventional shale beds that require hydraulic fracturing, according to an IHS study released Wednesday.

The personal copy of the United States Constitution owned by George Washington, where he took notes on the manuscript, will be auctioned later this month, auction house Christie's said Wednesday.