After months of criticism that it hasn't done enough to prevent foreclosures, the Obama administration has a plan to cut the amount some troubled borrowers owe on their home loans.
Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia — and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.
The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang — a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the unive
The winners of the 2009 Peabody Awards, announced Wednesday, include the ABC sitcom
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a resounding re-election victory Wednesday, beating back a challenge from his former army chief, who rejected the official results and said he feared arrest as troops surrounded his hotel.
Elderly survivors of Auschwitz, bundled tightly against the cold and snow, gathered Wednesday at the site of the former death camp to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation.
Helicopters are ferrying out hundreds of tourists stranded for two days near Peru's Machu Picchu after rains triggered mudslides and floods that blocked a railway and killed five.
Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is making a $29 billion bet that pressure to curb climate change will mean natural gas — cleaner than coal and suddenly much easier to reach — will become a crucial source of U.S. power.
Moviegoers know Jody Trautwein as the smiling Alabama pastor who tries to talk Sacha Baron Cohen's character out of being gay in the hit movie
A New Mexico teenager suspected of killing a nun on the Navajo Indian reservation reportedly tried to commit suicide over the weekend.
