THE NEW YORK TIMES

A new set of guidelines will expand the government's ability to retain data about American citizens, empowering officials to store information on U.S. residents for up to five years.

Maria Sharapova is getting married on Nov. 10th.

Although there is some dispute, the mystery of the Clintonville, Wis. booming noises may have been solved. Last week, the United States Geological Survey said a 1.5-magnitute earthquake struck the small Wisconsin town of 4,600 people only about 40 miles west of Green Bay.

Although an official confirmation of a 4G-ready iPhone is yet to land, evidence of the same has been spotted within the inwards of iOS 5.1. Read on to know how text strings within iOS 5.1 indicate 4G presence on a phone device.

A Denver Broncos football fan died just before his favorite team signed his least favorite player, Peyton Manning, as noted in his obituary. In honor of James Driver, here are some of the best Peyton Manning digs from like-minded commentators.

Gwyneth Paltrow caught up with Rachel Ray on the Rachel Ray Show yesterday after putting her kids to bed and pouring herself a glass of wine. The iconic actress phoned in from London for the show to talk about a New York Times article I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter, which claimed that several celebrities had not actually written cookbooks under their names.

A coup d'etat currently underway in Mali is not affecting gold production there, miners in the country are saying, as events related to the military uprising seem confined to the country's capital, hundreds of miles away from where gold deposits are located.

Walt Osterman is the author of Not Home Yet: A Tale Concerning Israel's Rebirth. He served in Vietnam and is a Bronze Star recipient. He lives in Wyoming.

A Zimbabwe court judge announced that six activists who had been arrested for watching videos of the Arab Spring would not be sent to jail. Autocratic politicians there may be learning a lesson from uprisings abroad: the importance of restraint.

A lawsuit that accused Goldman Sachs Group Inc. of defrauding investors was refused dismissal by a federal judge in Manhattan, according to the latest reports.

The self-defense law, under public scrutiny following the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, allows citizens to use deadly force to protect themselves, without ever having to prove their life was actually in danger.

Victims of the shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France were laid to rest in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening.

Despite what the stage monologist would have audiences believe, there are serious journalists who have devoted their careers to reporting on conditions in China. One of them, Rob Schmitz, told IBT that Daisey has undermined his and other reporters' work.

Israel is moving closer to eliminating potentially dangerous physical standards in the country's fashion industry with a law that bans too-skinny models from working unless they meet a specific body mass index (BMI).

The Dutch Royal family is trying to return to their normal routines following Prince Johan Friso's avalanche accident on February 17th. Queen Beatrix, Johan Friso's mother, returned to her royal duties at the beginning of March, attending a meeting with the Prime Minister, and later opening up the new Explosive Ordnance Barracks in Soesterberg.

Deutsche Börse AG, the operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, announced Tuesday that it will appeal the decision by European antitrust regulators to block its planned merger with NYSE Euronext, the New York Times said.

U.S. officials believe that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities will draw U.S. military action and leave hundreds of American soldiers dead, the New York Times said.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc has started reducing employees in the trading and investment banking divisions, it has been reported.

Gwyneth Paltrow has recently come under fire over reports that her cookbook My Father's Daughter was not actually written by the actress. Last week a report surfaced in the New York Times alleging that a Cookbook Ghostwriter penned the popular lifestyle guide.

Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in Lower Manhattan's financial district in New York City late Saturday night during clashes with police on the movement's six-month anniversary.

Fundraising by the Democratic National Committee and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign dwarfs that of his Republican rivals, but he continues to struggle to bring in the same amount of big donations as GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.