Alcoa (NYSE: AA) posted a second-quarter loss as a slump in aluminum prices to near two-year lows offset, growing demand in the aerospace and automobile markets.
With his divorce from Katie Holmes putting Tom Cruise and his Scientologist beliefs back in the spotlight, a review of the actor's greatest YouTube hits shows his growing reputation for eccentricity, at best.
Robert Nkemdiche's attempt to land scholarships for his teammates could set a precedent.
It is difficult to reconcile the accusations that TomKat was merely a contractual agreement with the way the split has played out so far -- with Cruise convincingly playing the role of the jilted husband and Holmes the long-suffering wife who can't get away from him fast enough. On the other hand, the hasty settlement is more suggestive of a premeditated ending than a knock-down, drag-out fight would have been.
Neurofibromatosis type 1 can cause tumors called optic glioma, but until now, scientists didn't know exactly where these tumors came from. Now researchers working with mice have tracked the tumors back to a specific region in the embryonic brain.
Denise Rich, the wealthy socialite and former wife of controversial billionaire trader Marc Rich, has renounced her United States citizenship thereby saving her millions of dollars in U.S. taxes.
After missing out on acquiring Steve Nash, the Knicks are on the verge of making several moves to sure up their roster for the 2012-13 NBA Season.
As investors await second-quarter earnings from leading technology companies, several warning signs indicate that save for special cases, it won?t be a blow-out.
The Nets are the favorites to land Dwight Howard.
Did he steal Eric Clapton?s girl?
Where to watch the 2012 Home Run Derby.
It will be Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants, not New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey, who will be starting for the National League at Tuesday's All-Star game -- in what many perceive to be a snub of Dickey, a dominant knuckleballer who was arguably the best pitcher in the first half of the season.
It appears Kevin Love could be the next star to demand a trade.
Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) has extended its lead in 2012 orders over European rival Airbus SAS with a multibillion-dollar commitment from a leasing company that the Chicago-based company revealed this week in Airbus' backyard.
The Knicks made a smart decision adding Jason Kidd.
Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a key witness to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, has agreed to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's new defense team. Rhodes told CNN earlier this year she believed Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone in the assassination of the former U.S. senator.
Sports' elite stripped down for the 2012 ESPN Body Issue featuring 27 athletes posing naked in pictures for the fourth annual edition. Some of the athletes posing in nude photos for the magazine include Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots, Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays, Abby Wambach of the Women's National Soccer Team and Tyson Chandler of the New York Knicks, who is featured on the cover.
More than 1.3 million requests for information about mobile telephone subscribers came from police and other law enforcement agencies last year, the New York Times reported.
If you are reading this online, then the computer you're using is not infected with the DNS Changer Malware. However, those who haven't bothered to remove the malicious software lost internet access at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
A video of the brutal public slaying of an Afghan woman by a militant, believed to be a member of the Taliban, was caught on camera last month near Kabul, laying bare the perilously unstable law and order situation in Afghanistan, ahead of the planned withdrawal of NATO troops in 2014.
The Dark Knight Rises is hands-down the most widely hyped movie of the summer. Yet, for all the fanfare surrounding the film, there's a lot of mystery, too. It appears director Christopher Nolan has heard his fans' pleas for More, and released a 13-minute sneak preview of the coming blockbuster.
Estimates have The Amazing Spider-Man finishing the weekend atop the movie box-office standings, raking in $65 million in U.S. and Canadian sales. Overall, it has grossed $140 million since its U.S. release on July 3.
