Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.

The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to...

Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement.

The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few blocks...

Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in...

Versatile US actor Ben Gazzara died in a New York hospital of pancreatic cancer, The New York Times said. He was 81.

A student at New York's legendary Actor's Studio where other Hollywood stars like...

Apart from typical running, throwing and strength training drills, the Super Bowl-bound New York Giants also reap the athletic benefits of season-long yoga sessions.

Gwen Lawrence, celebrity yoga...

A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Private First Class Bradley Manning, 24, has been in prison since his arrest one-and-a-half...

French magazine 'Elle' has apologised for a 'racist' article posted on its website that suggested that black American elite, inspired by the Obamas, were finally embracing 'white' fashion, after it...

The latest job report, which pegs US unemployment at 8.3 percent may be a turning point for President Barack Obama ahead of the 2012 White House race.

The US added 243,000 new jobs in January, the...

Daniel Radcliffe is supporting the Giants and has bet for 5,000 dollars that New York will win the Super Bowl.

"I'm really excited. I am a Giants fan, absolutely. I was christened a Giants fan when...

Kim Kardashian has taken to her Twitter account to deny rumours of a budding romance with American footballer and model Kate Upton's boyfriend, Mark Sanchez.

The 31-year-old reality star, who has...

A strange outbreak of twitching disorder in upstate New York may be spreading through social media as a kind of subconscious mimicry, say experts.

Doctors treating the case of nearly 20 teenagers...

Notorious Internet hacking group Anonymous has intercepted and published a recording of a conference call between Scotland Yard in the UK and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The conversation...

via @MikeGiardi Someone behind the New York Giants’ website tried to play sports Nostradamus on Saturday, prematurely declaring the Giants champions of Sunday’s Super Bowl match with the...

By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services Newt Gingrich said Saturday night that he's staying in the Republican presidential nominating contest.In a news conference in Las Vegas as results...

New York's Jeremy Lin scored a career-high 25 points Saturday and the Knicks rode his hot hand to a 99-92 win over New Jersey. Lin, a second-year guard out of Harvard, put in 19 of his points...

Anti-war protesters are taking to the streets in dozens of U-S cities to protest Washington’s anti-Iran policies.Activists from various US-based anti-war organizations are attending the rally....

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 5, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 photo shows Gibre George, who started a Facebook page called 'Don't Call Me African-American," in...

LOS ANGELES (CBS / AP) — Drew Viney scored 20 points, including the go-ahead basket with 54 seconds left, as Loyola-Marymount rallied from a 16-point deficit in the final eight minutes to...

SAN JOSE (CBS / AP) — Joston Thomas had a career-high 29 points and 12 rebounds as Hawaii erased a 14-point second-half deficit to beat San Jose State 83-81 in overtime on Saturday...

OAKLAND (CBS / AP) — About 70 Occupy Protesters marched through downtown Oakland Saturday night. The protesters burned an American flag as they began their march from City Hall toward police...

Members of the Native Mob gang have shot rivals in Minneapolis, sold drugs in Duluth, and thrown boiling water in a person's face in Crow Wing County. Authorities say they've also assaulted...

VATICAN CITY, 19 JAN 2012 (VIS) - Today in the Vatican Benedict XVI received a group of prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (Regions 4 and 6), at the end of their "ad...

Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney got a new poll boost two days before Nevada's caucuses, as real estate mogul Donald Trump endorsed him for the party's presidential nomination. The...

CAIRO -- Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One even put out...

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. -; A southeastern Indiana woman has been charged after prosecutors say she left her morbidly obese sister alive and decomposing in a chair for three weeks. A grand jury in...

FILE - This file photo released on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, provided by the Anaheim Police Dept. shows Itzcoatl Ocampo. The ex-Marine charged with killing four homeless men in Orange County has been...

A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow...

Less than 24 hours before deployment, U.S. Army SPC Frantz Eliscard stood in the fifth row on a theater stage, six soldiers in, listening to a string of political and military leaders offering words...

In other sports, the big-city rivalries usually come to a head in the playoff round before the championship. Here, though, the cities that love to hate each other are going for it all. Does Beantown...

Jason Pominville scored in a shootout Saturday and the Buffalo Sabres came away with a 4-3 win over the New York Islanders. Boyes tallied in the first round of the tie-breaker, firing a quick wrist...

1 of 6. A protester walks along barricades with his personal belongings as U.S. National Park Service police cordon-off the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square in Washington, February 4,...

A southeastern Indiana woman has been charged after prosecutors say she left her morbidly obese sister alive and decomposing in a chair for three weeks. A grand jury in Dearborn County near the...

MARTINEZ (KCBS) - The Martinez Marina, which serves as a key location for boaters looking to head either to the Delta or San Francisco Bay, has a major problem with mud buildup. When the tide pulls...

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A man was killed in a shooting on a residential street in East Oakland Saturday afternoon, a police officer said. Officer Kevin McDonald said police received a report of the...

STANFORD (CBS / AP) — Kyle Fogg scored 14 points to help Arizona beat Stanford 56-43 on Saturday. Jesse Perry added 11 points and Nick Johnson and Solomon Hill had 10 each for the Wildcats...

COLEVILLE (CBS / AP) — The person killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was the wife of a U.S. Marine, and the two people seriously injured were a...

SAN JOSE (KCBS) - A new IBM report suggests San Jose's public safety departments are overstaffed and has sparked debate between the tech sector and those who serve the city. San Jose Mayor...

Then pain developed in the large joints in his body, especially the hips and shoulders. It was so intense he was bedridden for almost two years, sometimes unable to sleep for days. By the time a...

MIAMI -; Officials with Princess Cruise Lines say a stomach virus affected nearly 100 passengers on a ship that arrived in South Florida. Meanwhile, passengers on another ship were complaining of...

A 24-year-old jailed for more than three months in the deaths of his mother and brother was a free man Saturday after prosecutors said they would instead charge a high school friend accused in a...

Two decades ago, Michael Webb's 3-year-old son died in a fire that investigators say Webb set in a scheme to kill his family, collect the insurance and start a new life with his...

NEW YORK, February 4 (Itar-Tass) - The Federal Court for the Southern District of New York has appointed a new hearing on the case of Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who last November was found...

A group of indigenous protesters has blockaded the Pan-American Highway in Panama for days to protest the recent approval of mines and reservoirs in their...

Any economic losses from the EU's oil embargo on Iran are outweighed by the benefits of the new sense of European unity ushered in by the sanctions. That's the view of MEP Martin Callanan...

Imam Syed Soharwardy (closest to camera), from Calgary, was surrounded by a dozen other Islamic Supreme Council of Canada members at the Jamia Riyadhul Jannah mosque Saturday as he delivered the...