Abercrombie and Fitch posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as teenagers, both in the United States as well as in international markets, readily shopped at its stores for jeans, T-shirts and other staples.
World equities rose on Wednesday, lifted by strong outlooks and results from U.S. retailers, while crude oil gained on a larger-than-expected decline in U.S. gasoline supplies.
Turkey has delivered its strongest warning to Syria yet as it made a fresh call on Wednesday for an immediate end to operations, signaling that the failure to do so would lead to serious unspecified steps.
The so-called Mother Monster was not set to unveil her latest video for "You and I" until Thursday. However, Lady Gaga's video was leaked and is trending at over 25,000 views so far. The busy video features many sides to Gaga. We see Yuri, her mermaid alter ego, Jo Calderone, her Italian persona, and an unnamed version of Gaga who plays piano in a cornfield."You must love all + every part of me, as must I, for this complex + incomprehensible force to be true," she tweeted.
The clothing brand has offered money to the reality TV star.
A faction of the 45,000 Verizon employees on strike is planning on protesting a New York Department of Education meeting on Wednesday.
Silver rose in early U.S. trading Wednesday and shares of several large silver mining companies also gained in premarket trading.
Gold rose Wednesday but shares of gold mining companies were mixed in premarket trading, indicating that optimism about the yellow metal is doesn't automatically transfer to companies that mine the precious commodity.
Stock futures pointed to a lower open for Wall Street Wednesday, with investors believing that Tuesday's meeting between French and German leaders failed to make significant progress on the euro zone sovereign debt crisis.
Native New Yorker's "Battle of the Bone", Finale Chicken Wing Eating Contest will be held from noon to 4 pm on Aug. 20. The sports-themed family restaurant franchise announced the finale of the 2011 contest, in which contestants attempt to top each other by eating the restaurant's famed chicken wings.
Opposing lawyers disputed the meaning of a medical report that said "rape" caused injuries sustained by the woman who has accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault.
Recent discoveries have found that cancer is even more devious than previously assumed.
London has overtaken New York as the world's fashion capital for 2011, fueled by media interest in late British designer Alexander McQueen and Kate Middleton, according to a survey by the Global Language Monitor.
Zachery Tims, founder of the megachurch New Destiny Christian Center, is dead and police believe it may be because of a drug overdose.
Zachery Tims, senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center (NDCC) in Apopka, Fla., was found dead in a room at the W Hotel in Times Square Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, according to the New York Police Department. The head of NDCC allegedly had a small glassine envelope containing white powder in his pant pocket when he was found lying face up on the floor of his room.
A contract at the heart of a lawsuit seeking half ownership of Facebook does not mention the social networking giant and has nothing to do with it, Facebook said in a court filing.
U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after three days of gains when a meeting between the heads of France and Germany failed to quell fears about euro zone leaders' ability to contain the region's sovereign debt woes.
Tom Hanks reportedly refunded money for ticket admission price to two unhappy movie goers who did not like his film, "Larry Crowne."
Lawyers for Facebook claim that a New York man falsified a contract that he claims makes him a partial owner of the Web site.
A spokeswoman for the Communications Workers of America, (CWA) representing 35,000 of a total 45,000 strikers, said the union "does not condone illegal action of any kind," as the nine-day-old strike continues to flare a number of emotions among union workers.
Kanye West and Jay Z?s CD, ?Watch the Throne,? isn?t the mega hit that was hoped for. Universal Music/DefJam angered record stores (what?s left of em) and download services like amazon.com because it gave ITunes a four day jump on downloads last week. The results, according to hitsdailydouble.com, was sales of 290,000.
What happened to Obama? It's a question being asked by many liberals, who say the president has not delivered on promises of hope and change.
