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Around 2,000 Syrian troops backed by tanks launched an assault to retake Damascus suburbs from rebels Sunday, activists said, a day after the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of worsening violence.

'All My Children' actor Nick Santino, committed suicide last Wednesday after his pit bull Rocco, was euthanized.

January has turned out to be strong for stocks with just two trading days to go. If you're afraid to miss the ride, there's still time to jump in. You just might want to wear a neck brace.

Riot police fought running clashes with Occupy Oakland protesters on Saturday, arresting more than 200 people and firing tear gas in scuffles that injured three officers and at least one demonstrator in the California city.

Nick Santino, a Brooklyn-born actor who appeared on several episodes of All My Children committed suicide on Wednesday, after being stricken with grief because he was forced to euthanize his beloved pit bull Rocco, according to reports.

It's the biggest television event of the year, and it's just a week away. The New York Giants will face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI. This is usually a game many people bet on. New England is favored to win by three points. The over/under for the game is 55 points.

The American midfielder has alerted Arsenal of his intentions to play in Champions League.

Jim Murphy, co-executive producer of Anderson Cooper's syndicated daytime talk show Anderson, has stepped down.

Police fired tear gas at hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters on Saturday who tried to take over a shuttered convention center, arresting 19 people in the latest clash between anti-Wall Street activists and authorities in the Bay Area city.

The tape of the Demi Moore 911 call from the actresses' home Monday night has been released, and it appears the situation more more serious than her publicist initially related. The Los Angeles Fire Department released the tape of the 911 call, made by a friend as the 49-year-old Moore was apparently in a medical emergency. Moore's friends were trying to summon an ambulance to her Beverly Hills home.

Apple Inc has never turned a blind eye to the problems in its supply chain and any suggestion it does not care about the plight of workers is patently false, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an email to employees.

The Arab League said on Saturday it had suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of the critical deterioration of the situation as state security forces battled rebels holding three suburbs just outside Damascus.

If his son gets into deeper trouble, Ray's future political ambitions might be thwarted.

Long nicknamed the Finger Building, the condo building has been reviled by local residents. But now, it has sold, with 70 percent of its 41 apartments in contract after a few months of marketing.

Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to the employees, Thursday, claiming the company cares about the worker's welfare, after the New York Times published, Wednesday, a lengthy report about the terrible working conditions in the major Apple product manufacturer Foxconn.

Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor, died Friday, in a hospital in Oswiecim on the 67th anniversary of its liberation. After World War II, Smolen became director of the memorial site.

While Newt Gingrich is out convincing the American voting population why he is the best person to be Republican presidential nominee, many eyes are focused on his wife Callista, whose hair has been attracting much attention for some time now. Here are five interesting things to know about Callista Gingrich's hair.

New details have emerged in the case of baby Lisa Irwin who has been missing for more than three months. Her parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin were interviewed by Dr. Phil McGraw.

Diane von Furstenberg, President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has issued new guidelines, aimed at keeping fashion models healthy and preventing their suffering from any kind of eating disorders.

The eagerly anticipated Old Masters paintings auction, conducted separately at international auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's, fetched over $120 million in sales, with certain pieces of art selling for more than $4 million each.

Researchers have associated obesity to pain stating that people who are overweight suffer from higher incidences of pain. In the new study, the researchers also indicated that as people age, excess weight is associated with even more pain, as part of the developmental process.