When the New York Giants and New England Patriots battle in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, they'll be playing in a stadium that was largely financed by taxpayers. Some critics dispute the positive economic benefits of stadiums, which have received around $20 billion in subsidies in the last two decades.
Texas financier Allen Stanford drew on a secret Swiss bank account to pay bribes and for personal expenses such as yacht maintenance, the government's top witness said at Stanford's fraud trial on Friday.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung is all set to reveal its newest Galaxy Note ad at Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 5) and it's going to be a treat for Android fans. But will it be able to create such an impression in viewers that those will be translated to sales figures?
Iran's oil minister said the Islamic state would not retreat from its nuclear program even if its crude-oil exports grind to a halt, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. But Rostam Qasemi also called on the European Union to review its recent decision to ban Iranian oil imports as of July 1.
Gold fell 1 percent on Friday, its biggest one-day loss in over a month, after encouraging U.S. payrolls data smashed hopes of extra stimulus from the Federal Reserve, which had been priced into bullion's recent rally.
I have never been enamored with the NFL.
Among the slick, million-dollar ads airing during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in New York and Boston will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.
The 2012 Super Bowl championship is indeed one of the most-watched television events in America. For the very first time in its history, the entire event, including the celebrity performances and rematch between New York Giants and New England Patriots, will be streamed live from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on NBCSports.com and NFL.com, starting from 6:30 p.m. EST Sunday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed lawmakers to pass his proposal to provide as much as $10 billion in aid to struggling homeowners, saying a failure to address the housing crisis would put the rest of the economy at risk.
Russia sought to delay a U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, warning on Saturday of a so-called scandal should the current draft be put to council members, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Ben Gazzara, who worked with several generations of major Hollywood directors, died at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 81.
Europe will again be at the center of investors' focus next week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the economic calendar to give the market direction.
The Nevada Republicans will head to their caucus stations on Saturday to choose the state's Republican nominee to fight Barack Obama in the Nov. general elections. According to the Nevada State Caucuses Web site, the state has 400,310 registered Republicans voting for 28 delegates.
U.S. fast-food giant Yum Brands Inc. plans to open 130 new KFC stores in Africa this year, bringing its presence on the continent to 1,000 restaurants, the Business Day newspaper in South Africa said on Friday, citing a senior executive.
More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking.
According to the officials, the letter laments that the U.S. failed to create a conducive atmosphere for talks by releasing the Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, the CIA prison for terror suspects in Cuba.
The race between Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters for Pippa Middleton’s first TV interview is on.
The organization that provides the world's banks with a system for moving money said on Friday it is working with officials in the European Union and the United States to address concerns about the services it provides to blacklisted Iranian banks.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is beginning monthlong naval exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf oil-tanker route that Tehran has threatened to close in retaliation for sanctions recently imposed by the European Union and the United States.
Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of passing classified documents to WikiLeaks, will face a full court-martial, the U.S. Army Military District of Washington announced on Friday. Manning faces 22 charges of participating in the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
With a huge lead in polls, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney appears poised for an easy win in Nevada's caucuses on Saturday that would put him in firm command of the party's seesawing presidential nominating race.
