The world is saying happy birthday today to Gabriel García Márquez, a Nobel Laureate and one of the most beloved living authors, who is perhaps best known for his 1967 masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Food Network chef and Southern comfort celebrity Paula Deen has been slapped with a lawsuit detailing shocking allegations including the use of a racial slur against President Barack Obama, pornographic content shared at work and segregation of the restaurant's bathrooms.
When at least 80 tornadoes rampaged across the United States, from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, last Friday, it was more than is typically observed during the entire month of March, tracking firm AccuWeather.com reported on Monday.
Large capital inflows to Latin America have resumed in recent months, which if continue can result in a threat of overheating and asset price bubbles according to a report.
Decrying calls on Wall Street for further quantitative easing (QE3), Richard Fisher, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas called on the nation’s lawmakers to follow the fiscal examples set by Mexico and Texas in a speech Monday.
Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey are pregnant! The couple announced the joyous news on Monday in separate ways. Minnillo took to her Twitter to share the baby love while Lachey took to a more public forum, Live! With Kelly.
Mazda Motor Corp. set the price of an approximately $1.67 billion share offering at a discounted ¥124 per share, roughly $1.53, on Monday in the hopes that the money raised can help fund a return to profitableness for the struggling Japanese car manufacturer.
Traders throughout the world welcomed BP's settlement news Monday with the company's stock hitting its highest level in more than a year.
Canadian gold miner AuRico Gold Inc. said Monday its reserves of gold shot up last year by more than one million ounces on its acquisition of Capital Gold Corp. and Northgate Minerals Corp.
The 15-month-old girl from Indiana had been found alive in a field Friday after a tornado ripped through her family's mobile home, killing her parents and two siblings.
Gas prices are a potent weapon in an election year. TransCanada Corp's proposed $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would move 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf, has suddenly become an inalienable part in the election rhetoric.
Late Friday night, BP announced that a $4.7 billion settlement had been reached with individual plaintiffs who sought damages related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
BP and three other energy companies late Friday reached a settlement with thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill that killed 11 workers and fouled the Gulf of Mexico with millions of gallons of oil.
BP PLC said early Saturday that it has agreed to a $7.8 billion deal with a committee representing plaintiffs to settle claims by fishermen and other private claimants who were adversely affected by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.
BP PLC and plaintiffs in the largest lawsuit filed in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 have agreed on the terms of a proposed class settlement, according to an order signed late Friday by the judge handling the case.
Liverpool transfer news late on Thursday talked of Colombian striker Jackson Martinez's claims of interest from Anfield.
The U.S. Navajo Nation has sued Urban Outfitters Inc. for trademark violations and licensing discrepancies in regard to products offered in its retail stores and online.
The Google YouTube team announced a brand new series, Versus, which will invite celebrities to debate different global issues. The debates will be streamed from YouTube. Versus will be part of a collaborative venture with Intelligence Squared, the self-described world's premier forum for debate and intelligent discussion. Real-time voting on the channel will allow debaters to delve more deeply into arguments that are resonating with viewers.
Another 26 states and the District of Columbia have requested a federal waiver from parts of the No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total number of exemption-seekers to 38 and underscoring the widespread view that the landmark 2001 education overhaul has been a failure.
Latinos, a large and growing voting bloc in several swing states, could play a pivotal role in deciding the U.S. presidential election. A raft of tough new state immigration laws, combined with rhetoric from its candidates, could hurt the Republican Party in November.
With victory over Italy, it looks like Jurgen Klinsmann is building the United States in the right direction.
Inspired by the announcement of Sen. Olympia Snowe's retirement, we take a look at the which members of the 112th Congress have no plans to reclaim their seats in November.
