The world's largest athletic shoe maker Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) reported on Thursday overall sales were not able to keep pace with increasing costs, yet growth China and emerging markets drove the company's fiscal third quarter past analysts' expectations.
John Goodman, the 48-year-old Florida millionaire polo mogul, was found guilty of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide on Friday.
The Hunger Games movie premiered on Thursday at midnight, selling out theaters and earning an 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 95 percent approval rating from users. Now that the movie everyone has been waiting for is here, gossip about what went down during production of the film is starting to come out. According to a source who spilled the beans to Perez Hilton there was plenty of sex and drug abuse taking place behind the scenes of The Hunger Games during filming.
Geraldo Rivera's son, Gabriel, is reportedly ashamed his father made a controversial statement about Trayvon Martin on Friday.
The fastest objects in the galaxy might be a planet fly through space at 30 million mph, according to a new study.
Local police raided an unlicensed cannabis club in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, seizing a vending machine that dispensed marijuana and arresting four people.
Some fans were let down by the latest release in the “Resident Evil” franchise, “Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The game was said to have strayed from its trademark zombie horror-survival stigma, and the next addition to the series may take a similar route.
A 45-foot, 800-pound paper plane soared across the Arizona desert Wednesday evening.
A newly discovered Mozart piece recently found in an attic in Austria was performed for the first time at his Salzburg home in Austria.
Jonathan Turley, a defense attorney and professor at George Washington University, is claiming that the case against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case may not be as much of an open-and-shut case as people assume, even when it comes to the 911 tapes cited as proof that Zimmerman wasn't acting in self-defense.
NBC's Community returned for a second episode on Thursday night following a 3-month long hiatus enforced by the network in what seemed at the time like the show getting cancelled. The second episode since the show's triumphant return following an outpouring of support from fans both online and in the form of flashmobs at Rockefeller center was full of the wacky antics and insane plot twists that Community is known for as the cast was forced to dress up as movie stars and work a bar-mitzvah...
A NASA space probe has discovered a new ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Dubbed the Enceladen Ocean, some researchers speculate that there could be life on one of Saturn's moons.
A division of Kraft has been given a proposed name of 'Mondelez,' but it turns out that's it's a sexually explicit term in Russia. A look back at some other companies that made similar blunders.
The shooting and death of Trayvon Martin has not only shaken the moral and constitutional foundations of Florida's self-defense Stand Your Ground law, but it has also affected the entire nation. George Zimmerman, of Caucasian and Hispanic descent, shot and killed the 17-year-old African American on Feb. 26 while he was walking home to his father's house after going to a nearby store to buy candy. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, has not yet been charged in the shooting.
The 2012 National Day of Unplugging will begin sundown Friday until sundown the next day and the challenge is to take a take a digital detox from everything in the virtual world.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will face 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder in a military court Friday, following a massacre two weeks earlier of Afghan civilians in which he is the prime suspect.
Mad Men season 5 premieres this Sunday, March 25 on AMC at 8 pm and legions of eager fans who have gone without new episodes during the show's 17-month hiatus are still almost completely in the dark regarding where and when the 2-hour long episode will pick up as well how the plot will develop. The biggest question most fans are pondering is whether Don Draper (Jon Hamm) will stay with his ex-secretary Megan Calvet, who he proposed to during the season 4 finale, or end up back with ex-wife Be...
A game of tug of war like no other.
Canadian singer-songwriter Ariane Moffatt, who is based in Quebec, released her fourth album with some tracks in English. Things have gone well for her since... except for those rumors about sex addiction.
Jupiter's core may be melting, which could offer an explanation as to why a recently discovered Jupiter-like planet is so dense, despite being a similar size, according to a new study.
Geraldo Rivera has set off a firestorm of criticism against after he blamed Trayvon Martin's hoodie for causing the Florida teen's fatal shooting by George Zimmerman.
Fans of “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” are anxiously anticipating the rumored upcoming downloadable content. News leaked earlier this week that there are three new expansions in the works. And with Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax filing a patent for Dawnguard, there is a possibility this could be true.
The U.S.'s No. 4 cell phone service T-Mobile USA, Inc. said Thursday it plans to cut about 1,900 jobs and close seven customer service call centers as it undergoes restructuring after a proposed purchase by AT&T was nixed by regulators.
Astoria resident Jordan Hawes pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife, Tara Hawes, and received 25 years in prison.
Ed Speleers, best known for 2006 fantasy film Eragon, will be joining the cast of Downton Abbey for the hit TV show's third season. Find out his role and get the dirt on who else is joining the cast, from Shirley MacLaine as Lady Cora's mother to Matt Milne as the nephew of scheming lady's maid Miss O'Brien.
The investigation into the disappearance of California teen Sierra LaMar is getting an extra boost with the FBI now getting involved.
Google celebrates the 125th birthday of Spanish artist Juan Gris today with a Cubism-inspired Google Doodle, honoring one of the form's lesser known but most talented painters. Find out the story behind the Google Doodle honoring the Third Musketeer of Cubism and relive some of his most classic paintings here.
Samsung’s flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, may be seeing a release date in the near future. The new device may be unveiled on May 22nd, according to technology news site Geek.com.
On Friday morning, Tracy Martin revealed that his son Trayvon had saved his life during a house fire when the boy was only 9 years old. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon's mother, said that the teen's grandfather was a police officer.
When you want to make light of a situation, you can always count on Jason Biggs of American Pie fame to bring that well-needed humor. This time, the upcoming star of American Reunion mocked KONY 2012 director Jason Russell and his naked meltdown in a video that has gone viral on the Internet.
