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Democrat senators divided on government health insurance, so House's bill has nowhere to go
World stock markets rose Monday after the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries agreed to maintain their stimulus measures in the wake of weak U.S. employment figures.
Despite signs of an economic revival gathering pace around the globe, the millions of people laid off during the worst recession in 70 years are unlikely to see relief any time soon as joblessness is still climbing in many of the world's largest economies.
NEW YORK - Both arms raised to the sky, jubilation all over his face, Alex Rodriguez bounced his way to the Yankee Stadium mound.
Obama tells Democrats to answer the call of history as they move toward health care vote
- Derek Jeter almost seems to delight in the way this World Series is playing out.
Asian markets advanced Friday on the back of Wall Street's rally after upbeat economic figures revived confidence about the state of the U.S. economy.
Honduras' interim government has filed a case at the U.N.'s highest court accusing Brazil of meddling in internal Honduran affairs by allowing ousted President Manuel Zelaya to stay at its embassy in Tegucigalpa, the court announced Thursday.
By now, we should all be familiar with Toyota’s woes. No sooner did the automaker finally ascend to the No. 1 global spot, displacing General Motors, than it began to hit speedbumps and potholes. There were historic financial losses, lawsuits, and embarrassing, tragic recalls. At one point, it was widely believed that Toyota could do no wrong. All of a sudden, it could do no right.
Sheldon Cooper is narcissistic, socially awkward, childish, hurtful, naive, irascible, selfish, rude, and irrepressible.
The Fall Classic is here, and we want to hear from you. Set the scene with your report from New York or Philadelphia. Tell us your stories, send us your photos, and we'll publish the best.
Many of the musicians and craftsmen interviewed in “This Is It” talk about Michael Jackson’s perfectionism, so it begs the question: Would Michael Jackson have wanted this movie of rehearsal footage to be seen by mass audiences?
Hulk Hogan, as big a star as professional wrestling had ever spawned, had reached the end. For days he sat in his empty mansion, mixing rum and Xanax, shattered by an impending divorce and a family tragedy, holding a gun to his head and thinking about how little force it would take to pull the trigger and end it all.
The head of Canada's central bank said Monday the global financial industry is in danger of becoming arrogant by resisting regulatory change and handing out bonuses that wouldn't be there if governments hadn't intervened during the financial crisis.
Clinton confronted by Pakistanis over Predator drone attacks — 'executions without trial'
Tanja Poutiainen of Finland won the opening race of the ski season Saturday, edging Kathrin Zettel of Austria by 0.01 second in the giant slalom on the Rettenbach glacier.
A lucky swap and some eager building propelled a 19-year-old Norwegian student to the top of board game fame and sent three would-be tycoons to the poor house at the Monopoly World Championship in Las Vegas.
European stock markets traded flat on Thursday as investors awaited quarterly growth data from the U.S. later in the day for insight into the state of the world's biggest economy.
A record 106 million infants were vaccinated last year against life-threatening diseases, but nearly 1 in 5 babies still aren't fully protected, global health authorities reported Wednesday.
Pirate attacks worldwide in the first nine months of 2009 exceeded the whole of last year's total because of more frequent raids in the Gulf of Aden and off the east coast of Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said Wednesday.
In Charles Schulz’s beloved Peanuts cartoons, poor Linus waited in vain, year after year, for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. But TODAY brought a real-life great pumpkin to Rockefeller Plaza on Monday — a 1,725-pound behemoth that may have earned its growers a place in the record books.
There are some video games that you’re going to hear a lot about in the coming months — “Borderlands,” “Modern Warfare 2,” “Assassin’s Creed II,” “New Super Mario Bros.,” “Bioshock 2” and “MAG,” … just to name a few.
World stock markets fell sharply Thursday as investor optimism was dented by a broker downgrade of U.S. bank Wells Fargo and concerns about future Chinese economic growth.
Parents in some of Africa's poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough.
Chavez Says Venezuela to Prepare for War as Deterrent to U.S. led AttackVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the military and civil militias today to prepare for war as a deterrent to a U.S.-led attack after American troops gained access to military bases in neighboring Colombia.
Antidepressants Cause Suicide & Violence in Soldiers-noted Psychiatrist saysHere are the starting facts: Death by suicide is at record levels in the armed services. Simultaneously the use of antidepressant drugs is also at record levels, including brand names like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Lexapro.
WND falsely claimed alleged Fort Hood shooter "advised Obama transition""WorldNetDaily falsely claimed that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan "advised Obama transition" in the headline of an article by Jerome Corsi highlighting his listing as a "participant" in a report for the Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) at George Washington Univer …
Top 10: Hottest Women From The Arab WorldIn our ongoing efforts to catalog the sexiest women on earth, it's been brought to our attention that there is one part of the world AskMen.com has largely ignored: the Arab World.
Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New OceanA 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm. The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean.
Mother's Antidepressant use linked to Children's Health RisksNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies whose mothers used antidepressants during pregnancy visit the doctor more often and have higher risks of certain health problems than other children their age, a new study suggests.
Spamers Use Pharma Model for Luring CustomersWelcome to the "fakeosphere." Internet marketing veteran and analyst Jay Weintraub says fake blogs – or flogs – fake news sites and manufactured testimonials are the fastest-growing segment of Internet advertising.
Nursing Home Pharmacy Provider Omnicare, Teva to pay $112 million for kickbacks"J&J's kickbacks to Omnicare took multiple forms, including rebates that were conditioned on Omnicare engaging in an 'Active Intervention Program' for Risperdal and payments disguised as data purchase fees, educational grants, and fees to attend Omnicare meetings," the Justice De …
Tinseltown gets the big picture on psychiatry - it sucks...your Money mostly, but it also sucks the life out of just about every demographic group it purports to help or rather "treat".
Bogus student checks 'don't work'Immigration officers have warned bosses that new rules designed to stop bogus students entering the UK are not working, the BBC has learned.
Crackdown on school place cheatsTougher action should be taken against the thousands of parents who lie to get their children into popular schools, England's school places watchdog says.
Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India For India, the widening Maoist insurgency is a moment of reckoning for the country's democracy and has ignited a sharp debate about where it has failed.
DAWN.COM | World | Quitting region now will be disaster: PentagonWASHINGTON: The Pentagon has warned that it would be a disaster if the US abandoned Pakistan and Afghanistan now.
A Manufactured "Epidemic"Excerpts from Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to BankersFormer Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers
The Corrupt Alliance of the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical IndustryExamples of the conflicts of interest between pharma & the APA.
5 things to know about psychotropics Illinois Dept. Public Health releases guidelines for elderly care in light of recent claims of abuses.
Miscegenation is a crime - RNC Facebook picPerhaps no one noticed. Perhaps no one cared. But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of days old controversial photos on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.
UK: Sharia supremacist group gets $165,000 in taxpayer fundingLeading members of a group that wants to bring down the British state and replace it with a dictatorship under Islamic law have secured more than £100,000 of taxpayers' money for a chain of schools.
Afghans protest rumored desecration of Koran by U.S. troopsReporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - Hundreds of angry protesters in Afghanistan's capital burned an effigy of President Obamaon Sunday, acting on rumors that American troops had desecrated the Koran.
Somali jihad group threatens journalists"The news you report is against the jihad and you are not nationalists willing to defend your people and your country," Sheikh Mohamed told reporters....
Iran buys North Korean WMD for Syria, midget submarines for bothThe US Congressional Research Service reveals that Iran has helped Syria obtain "various forms of weapons of mass destruction" and missiles, as well as buying midget submarines - all from North Korea.
Libya will take part in the World Tourism Show in London , Great Britain, from 9 to 12 November, the Libyan General Tourist and Handicraf t Board announced Friday in its weekly bulletin here.
Saudi female journalist gets lashes for sex showA Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex. Rozanna al-Yami, 22, is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment,
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