History will remember 2011 as the year of the popular uprising. The common man is creating history in different corners of the world. What else do the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests, the anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain, and the anti-corruption campaign in India herald?
Jehane Noujaim -- director of Control Room, a 2004 documentary about Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera -- was arrested and later released after participating in a protest in Egypt, according to multiple reports on Twitter.
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have broken their Twitter silence in the spirit of the holiday season.
Tom Wicker, the New York Times reporter who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the paper before moving on to become the Times' Washington bureau chief and a columnist for 25 years, died at his Rochester, Vermont, home on Friday, the Times reports.
Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have been camped in front of Los Angeles' City Hall for nearly two months will be evicted on Monday, city officials said on Friday.
As the holidays approach, there are numerous things to dread: long hours spent in airports, seasonal weight gain, and searching for gifts for everyone on your list.
Violent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of students into the Occupy Wall Street movement and unleashed what some historians call the biggest surge in campus activism since the 1960s.
Exchange operator CME Group Inc. fined Infinium Capital Management, a high-frequency trading firm with offices in Chicago, London, and New York, a total of $850,000 for three separate computer malfunctions that rattled futures markets in 2009 and 2010.
There's not much to be thankful for if you were working on Wall Street this week. Stocks tumbled for the seventh session in a row, helping push the Standard & Poor's 500 down 4.7 percent.
A Staten Island family has been awarded $1 million after learning that their deceased son's brain was on display at the Staten Island Mortuary.
A raging fire in Brooklyn at 12:17 p.m. yesterday put five into the hospital--all in critical condition, and rushed to New York Presbyterian Cornell Weill Medical Center.
Stocks posted seven straight sessions of losses on Friday, ending the worst week in two months, as the lack of a credible solution to Europe's debt crisis kept investors away from risky assets.
A Very Gaga Thanksgiving was a glorious holiday special that showed a subdued and charming side of Ms. Lady Gaga.
With a minimal 2 per cent increase in established businesses and a persistent rate of opportunity-driven ventures, the entrepreneurial scenario of the United States was still healthier than rest of the world in 2010.
Reputed mafia boss Salvatore Montagna, 40, was found murdered on Thursday outside of Montreal. His body was found in the Assomption River in Charlemagne, northeast of the city.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has been accused of flip-flopping on a number of issues. So what are his political positions?
Thousands of people thronged the streets of New York City on Nov.24, 2011 on the occasion of the 85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Crude oil prices edge higher in Asian trade Friday, but remained rangebound as renewed concerns over the eurozone debt crisis offset fears over an escalation of violence in Saudi Arabia may threaten crude supply from the Middle East.
The holiday shopping season is in full swing on Thursday, with retailers hoping consumers will spend big despite worries about the fragile economy and their own precarious finances.
Singer and rapper Nicki Minaj was named Billboard's 2011 Rising Star on Wednesday, following her international success this year with her album, Pink Friday.
Appliances, computers, electronics, cameras, clothes, watches, ribbons or bows, you name it and it's for sale on Black Friday, the most important retail day of the year.
Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby failed to find the same explosive form that marked his return to NHL action earlier this week and was held without a point as the Penguins lost 3-2 in overtime to St Louis on Wednesday.