LOS ANGELES

Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, but the police later pulled back.

Speculation continues to swirl for Arsene Wenger's squad.

Improving market fundamentals will bolster the commercial real estate market in 2012, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

Cyber Monday offers incredible discounts on airfare, hotels, cruises and more.

Mitt Romney continues to be treated as Republican nominee by the Democratic party. This week they've launched a new ad campaign pitting Romney against himself in a mock action movie called Mitt v. Mitt.

A lost Walt Disney cartoon that pre-dated Mickey Mouse has been discovered in a British film archive and will be offered for auction in Los Angeles on December 14.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street activists who faced eviction early Monday from their eight-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall will be allowed to stay put until at least dawn, a police official said.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have camped outside Los Angeles City Hall for weeks faced a midnight eviction deadline on Sunday with plans to throw a party they hoped might forestall a raid.

With Disney's film reboot of The Muppets raking in $29.5 million during its first weekend and claiming second place at the box office -- and a 98 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes -- director James Bobin is smiling as wide as Dr. Teeth.

The Bruins have a losing record under Neuheisel.

Friend Kelly Osbourne teased Miley about last year's salvia scandal

Occupy Los Angeles activists said Saturday they intend to continue inhabiting their protest site on the grounds of City Hall despite a fast-approaching deadline for their eviction set by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Two thousand children in 23 bands played brass instruments and sang in choirs at metro stations across Caracas on Saturday in the latest endeavor by Venezuela's lauded youth orchestra program.

Previously unseen footage of Michael Jackson's 1993 Dangerous tour, which had been expected to fetch 4-5 million pounds ($6.2-7.8 million) failed to sell at auction in Britain on Saturday.

The NBA lockout is over. We want to play basketball, NBA commissioner David Stern said, perhaps forgetting that he actually didn't want to play basketball for the first scheduled month of the season.

Justin Bieber's girlfriend Selena Gomez revealed on Friday that she is expecting to be a big sister soon, as her mother, Mandy Teefy, is pregnant.

The Wal-Mart customer who used pepper spray on other customers during the store's Black Friday sales has turned herself into authorities, Los Angeles police said Saturday.

A woman suspected of dousing fellow Walmart shoppers with pepper spray during a Black Friday eve bargain frenzy in suburban Los Angeles has turned herself in to authorities, police said on Saturday.

The Heat go into the season with a strong chance of winning the title.

This year has been one of innovations and even revolutions in the gaming industry, one that has paved the way for the future. Big-name titles came and went, and a select few have become immortals in their own right. Check out some of the best games of 2011.

By now, it's certainly no surprise that Tilda Swinton has turned in another riveting performance in a dark and difficult movie; from Orlando to I Am Love, that's what she does, with occasional detours to play the white witch in the Narnia films and win an Oscar as a corporate lawyer in Michael Clayton.