UNITED STATES

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will support a new public/private venture to find the plane of aviator Amelia Earhart and finally solve the mystery around her disappearance 75 years ago.

An influential U.S. consumer watchdog is investigating online reports that Apple Inc's new iPad throws off an unusually large amount of heat and will publish its findings later on Tuesday.

Angry Birds maker Rovio is teaming up with a major U.S. retail chain to put its branded toys, books and T-shirts in dedicated areas of thousands of stores nationwide, the Finnish company's marketing chief told Reuters on Tuesday.

New E.U. sanctions have prompted Belgium-based financial institution SWIFT to deny Iranian banks access to a global messaging system that is used for arranging money transfers that are crucial to facilitating the country's oil exports.

Major indexes across Europe were down Tuesday on negative news regarding an expected slowdown in Chinese economic growth.

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after a 3-day winning streak for the S&P 500 on concerns that China's economy may be slowing down.

Tiffany & Co said its business was back on track in the first quarter after a holiday scare, and the high-end jeweler forecast higher sales and profit for 2012, sending shares up nearly 7 percent.

Devils bruisers Ryan Carter, Cam Janssen and Eric Boulton squared off with Rangers tough guys Stu Bickel, Brandon Proust and Mike Rupp just three seconds into the game last night at Madison Square Garden.

Suu Kyi has waited over twenty years to stand for election – she has been under house arrest for much of the prior two decades

Americans travelling to the Olympics could be exposed to measles and should be vaccinated before they go, the CDC warned.

The Amazing Spider-Man won't hit theaters until July 3, but the film has already launched an interactive viral campaign. The movie stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/ Spider-Man, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, and Denis Leary as Captain George Stacy. A mock TV news segment was released on Webbedmenace.com, featuring Leary in character. We have a masked criminal roaming the streets of our city posing as some kind of a hero, says Captain Stacy.

Sales of smartphones with Microsoft Windows software have surpassed those using Nokia's old Symbian system in Britain, research showed on Tuesday, a sign of progress in Nokia's switch to Microsoft software.

Gold fell on Tuesday, hurt by strength in the dollar which profited from the growing view in the market that the U.S. economy is on a firmer footing, ending a three-day rally in the bullion price.

Nearly 23 years to a day after an overworked mariner crashed it into a reef, causing it to spill hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into the pristine Alaskan sea, the bulker formerly known as the 'Exxon Valdez' is being retired and sold for scrap. In an ironic twist, the ship at the center of one of the most infamous environmental disasters ever will be recycled in a process called one of the greenest by an executive in the vessel demolition world.

Under the House GOP budget plan, the personal income tax rate would be slashed into two brackets: a top rate of 25 percent and lower rate of 10 percent.

Wendy's had toppled Burger King's rein as the second biggest fast food chain, after McDonalds. The burger joint has surpassed Burger King's U.S sales for the first time since it was established in 1969, according to a report by research firm Technomic Inc.

One tornado touched down southwest of San Antonio Monday night, amidst widespread flooding and severe storms that continue to pummel several Southern and Midwestern states.

India will call upon local airlines to boycott the European Union's carbon-offsetting tax, as an ongoing row over a recently-instated tax on flights in and out of Europe has sparked discontent from several nations and heightend fears of a trade war.

Spring has sprung, and a little bit earlier than usual - in fact, it's the earliest vernal equinox in over a century.

While Kim Kardashian is reportedly eying rapper Kanye West, One Direction's Harry Styles in hoping she would give him a call ... someday.

Apple's push for a tax holiday on overseas profits is unlikely to influence the Obama administration's position on the issue, a White House source told Talking Points Memo.