British cyclist Bradley Wiggins has won the 2012 Tour de France, making him the first Briton to ever win the race. Wiggins, who rides for Team Sky, had already been in the lead before a strong win in Saturday's time trial secured him the yellow jacket.
The names of the 12 people who died in the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., on Friday has been released. Learn their names and the stories behind the victims as told by families and friends.
Investors can monitor five stats to obtain a reading on the U.S. economy’s strength. Currently, these stats show a slowdown in U.S. GDP growth, which is why Congress should do more to create jobs and help increase the economy’s growth rate.
Watch highlights of Brazil's victory over Great Britain at the Riverside Stadium.
In Namibia, finding an aquifer is akin to striking gold.
Photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield describes Queen of Versailles as a super-sized version of what we had seen so many others struggle through in America since the start of the housing crisis.
What guns laws are like elsewhere in the world, and how the U.S. outranks every other nation in gun ownership
Watch live coverage as Great Britain take on Brazil, plus a full preview, team news and prediction.
Since striking gold with Guy Fieri, the Food Network has looked to its show The Next Food Network Star to find, farm and develop the next food hosts for the Food Network. In the show's eighth season, the producers decided to try a new system for picking the winner: Once the final contestants were chosen, fans would be able to vote for the winner online, and that alone would decide the fate of the season. It was a good idea, but the Food Network failed on the execution.
All the details behind the latest speculation concerning Chelsea's busy summer in the transfer market.
Gold continues to fare better than other asset classes in spite of a downward pressure on prices.
Despite some key injuries to the U.S. Men's National Basketball Team, the red, white and blue remain the overwhelming favorites to win the gold medal at the London Olympics.
Activision Blizzard’s “Diablo 3” marks one of the largest PC gaming launches in history, and fans of the dungeon-crawler action game have been waiting more than 10 years for its release. Now it seems Blizzard believes fans should be given more bang for their buck after holding out for over a decade. The company has just announced that it will be releasing new content catered to high-level players.
The Nazis planned to kill Sir Winston Church with exploding chocolate bars, according to recently unveiled wartime documents. The portly British Prime Minister was known for delving into the good life, with fine cigars, brandy and a voracious sweet tooth.
Some NBA owners don;t want players participating in the Olympics
The Who have announced a 36-date Quadrophenia tour this fall, performing their 1973 rock opera in its entirety. The legendary band's first North American appearance in four years will kick off Nov. 1 in Sunrise, Fla., and wrap Feb. 26, 2013, in Providence, R.I.
Japan's female Olympic athletes haven't been treated quite as well as their male counterparts, occasioning new scrutiny into gender equality issues in Japan.
New York artist Danny Evans of Planet Hiltron was fed up with the celebrity way of life -- spending boatloads of money on their appearances -- and wanted to shed the celebrity of the glitz and gold, showing key players like like Angelina Jolie, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Rihanna, Madonna and Johnny Depp as raw, “real people in his photos series Celebrity Make Under.
The aptly named Lauryn Mark will be representing Australia at the upcoming 2012 London Olympics as the American-born Mark tries to go for gold in skeet shooting.
The world's major miners are not discovering enough new gold deposits to make up for all the extraction they have engaged in over the past decade and a half, a fact that suggests the scarcity of the precious yellow metal could grow in coming decades.
Forbes Magazine estimates The Red Devils are now worth $2.23 billion, 19 percent more than second place Spanish side Real Madrid, which is worth $1.88 billion.
U.S. stocks gave back early gains and turned negative after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke set out a downbeat view of the economy to Congress without promising imminent easing measures.