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The Yankees have traded A.J. Burnett to the Pirates. Here's 5 things all baseball fans need to know about the deal.

Markets jumped Monday as policy easing by China and prospects for Greece to clinch a second bailout fund buoyed investor appetite for riskier assets, sending U.S. crude up nearly $2 a barrel and Asian shares up nearly 1 percent.

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After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangling and an assassination attempt, Yemenis will draw a line under Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule Tuesday by voting in an uncontested election to install his deputy as president.

Jeremy Lin shined in perhaps his most difficult test yet, as the New York Knicks beat the Dallas Mavericks 104-97 Sunday afternoon at Madison Square Garden.

ESPN announced on Sunday that it has fired the writer responsible for the Chink in the armor headline during the Jeremy Lin coverage some 36 hours after the racially insensitive headline was seen. The network also offered an apology.

Saturday Night Live alumnus Maya Rudolf hosted the sketch-comedy show for the very first time this weekend. The episode was filled with guest appearances from celebrities such as Bill O'Reilly, Justin Timberlake, Amy Poehler and Kate Upton.

Wynn Resorts Ltd said it had discovered that board member Kazuo Okada made improper payments to foreign gaming regulators and the company forcibly bought back the Japanese gaming mogul's 20 percent stake in Wynn.

If upcoming earnings from U.S. retailers are as unimpressive as the rest of the profit season has been, Wall Street could face a tough time justifying a stock market at nine-month highs.

Wynn Resorts Ltd upped the ante in the fight between its billionaire founder Steve Wynn and his former business partner Kazuo Okada, accusing the Japanese gaming mogul of improper payments and forcibly buying back his 20 percent stake in Wynn's casino company at a discount.

According to a report by Forbes, the now-public 191-page FBI file on Steve Jobs, Apple's co founder, will be available as a $12.95 paperback. However, if it's the soft copy you're looking for, you're in luck - a PDF version of the file can be downloaded for free.

Bo Derek -- an American actress and model, and an international sex symbol -- was on the Boomer & Carton morning show on WFAN radio last week to promote her appearance on CBS's CSI: Miami television show, and she couldn't help but confess she is an admirer of the New York Knicks' newest star, Jeremy Lin.

Gas prices in the U.S. have gone past $3.50 a gallon, the highest price this time of the year, ticking panic among people who have begun to see the price rises as oppressive.

Just hours after wrapping up her work in New York, Victoria Beckham was seen boarding a plane back to her homeland, Landon, to launch her collection for London fashion week.

David Beckham took home the That's How I Roll award for the most stylish athlete at the second Annual Cartoon Network Hall Of Game Awards in Los Angeles.

Top 20 Hottest Celebrity Lip-locks: Kate Middleton, Angelina Jolie, J Lo, Britney, Lady Gaga and Counting (PHOTOS)

The lyrics tell the story of a young woman who becomes part of the Hollywood-New York celebrity scene... and ultimately succumbs to the deadly lure of drug abuse.

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was among 22 men inducted into cardinal status by Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City.

Born in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 9, 1963, Whitney Houston grew up to become one of the most successful and admired singers of the 20th century. Houston spent her life surrounded by music. She died on Feb. 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Pope Benedict on Saturday elevated 22 prelates to the rank of cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church at a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Basilica. Here are their names.

The United States, as most readers and investors know, went through a trying time from 2001 to 2008, and it is only now beginning to recover. Hence, the nation could use a little comic relief. And who better to provide it than, arguably, the greatest comedian of the modern era -- Groucho Marx.