We have a lot of Halloween traditions, but what is the history of Halloween and why do we dress up, carve jack-o-lanterns, and go trick-or-treating?
Real-time disclosure of the credit ratings on debt in the $3.7 trillion U.S. municipal bond market will be available in coming months, the board that collects market data said on Monday.
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been added to the line-up for the MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast on Sunday, when he will join his girlfriend and host for the night, actress and singer Selena Gomez.
The Congressional super committee has been less transparent than Casper the Friendly Ghost, according to several good government organizations, who are staging Halloween rallies to call for more openness as the dozen-member group decides how to tighten the budget by at least another $1.2 trillion.
Adele has a hemorrhaged vocal chord -- not a life-threatening condition
While sites such as Monster and CareerBuilder have become very popular for job searchers, two career experts say time will be better spent searching elsewhere.
Investors were so concerned that euro zone leaders would not reach agreement on solving the debt crisis in October that they cut equity holdings to the second lowest level in 12 months, Reuters polls showed on Monday.
Netflix and Amazon.com Inc unveiled content deals with Walt Disney Co on Monday, a sign of increased competition between the two companies in the video streaming business.
Americans are enormously proud of their country, and frequently boast that the country is better than all of the rest. But two new studies offer a counter-argument to the aforementioned, at least regarding the ease of doing business and the goal of social justice.
Macy's Inc is planning its earliest start ever to the holiday shopping season by opening many of its U.S. stores at midnight on Thanksgiving night.
The Happy Halloween doodle is one the Google Doodle team put together each year, but what usually is a simple illustration or animation has this year become a full day shoot of the doodle team physically carving 1000 pound pumpkins, at Google's headquarters in California.
Halloween night in NYC will be a lively one with wild creations as part of the 39th annual Village Halloween Parade; find out the parade route, least crowded spots, and best time to get there.
The euro area is headed toward a sharp economic slowdown in 2012, with some countries set for negative growth, and failure to restore confidence in battered state finances could prompt a major contraction in developed countries, the OECD said on Monday.
Safety of next-generation birth control pills in question
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The bankruptcy of New York-based MF Global Holdings brought the European debt crisis to New York, wiping out a respected firm and tarnishing the reputation of a former Goldman Sachs CEO.
Though most areas of the U.S. currently observe daylight saving time, Arizona, Hawaii, and the territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are exceptions. But in Arizona, the Navajo Nation observes daylight saving time.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement head into its seventh week, Richmond police put an end to protests in Kanawha Plaza.
A White House official said President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Monday ordering the FDA to take steps to reduce vital medication shortages across the nation.
Ratings agency Moody's has cut its outlook for the European steel industry to negative and said it expects demand to weaken by up to 4 percent in the next 12 months, as the industry faces economic strain and weak construction and auto markets.
Several Occupy Portland protestors were arrested Sunday morning.
Loews Corp , run by the billionaire Tisch family, posted quarterly earnings below analysts' estimates for the third time in a row, hurt by a fall in its investment income and higher catastrophe losses at its biggest holding CNA Financial .
