First Lady Michelle Obama has made an impassioned speech backing her husband, President Barack Obama, for another four-year White House term. Closing the first night...
Japan’s government has reached a deal to buy disputed islands in the East China Sea from their private owner, local media reports. The government will...
McDonald's is bowing to local demand and is opening a meat-free restaurant in India. The global chain, whose best-known product is the Big Mac burger...
At least 42 people died and more than 20 others have been injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in southern Morocco, officials...
Fang Daguo, a Chinese official accused of beating a flight attendant, has been suspended from his post pending an investigation, Chinese state media say. Fang...
Indian police are carrying out raids across 10 cities as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the allocation of coalfields. Police say they...
Ratings agency Moody's has lowered its outlook for the European Union's AAA credit rating to "negative" and warned that the bloc's rating could be...
This year MDA Telethon featured pop singers Carrie Underwood and Paula Abdul among other Hollywood celebrities at the September 2 TV event. Former American Idol judge...
Griselda Blanco, a ruthless drug smuggler known as the “Godmother of Cocaine” who was jailed in the U.S. for three chilling murders, has been...
Prince Harry has made his first public appearance since the Las Vegas scandal broke. Prince Harry, 27, attended the WellChild Awards in London this afternoon...
Violence is continuing in Syria, with opposition activists saying that a warplane may have killed as many as 25 people in a strike in...
Former US President Bill Clinton made an insensitive racial remark about Barack Obama while his wife battled him for the Democratic nomination vote, it...
The West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2012. The party starts on the Thursday before Labor Day, August 30th,...
Lakhdar Brahimi, the new UN-Arab League envoy on Syria, has given a deeply pessimistic view of the task ahead of him, as he takes...
Ethiopia has decided to build a mausoleum to commemorate the life of former leader Meles Zenawi, who was buried on Sunday. Acting Prime Minister Hailemariam...
Catch all the color and excitement as millions of Brooklynites & New Yorkers line up along Eastern Parkway for the Brooklyn Labor Day Parade...
The annual Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon that for years featured Jerry Lewis was not broadcasted this year in Joplin, Missouri. The program was a staple...
The annual Muscular Dystrophy Association television fundraiser goes a new way Sunday, with a different title and featuring three hours of taped appearances by...
Self-styled messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church became famous for marrying thousands of people in a single ceremony, has died, aged 92. Sun...
Michelle Obama has launched yet another incentive to try to slim down the U.S. as part of her Let's Move campaign. Tips from the First...
South African prosecutors have decided to provisionally drop murder charges against 270 miners at Lonmin Marikana platinum mine whose colleagues were shot dead by...
Pakistani Imam Khalid Chishti has been remanded in custody, accused of planting pages of the Koran among burnt pages in the bag of a...
Richard Bach, author of 1970s short novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has been seriously injured in a plane crash. Richard Bach, 76, was reportedly trying to...
The Muscular Dystrophy Telethon is must-see TV watching during the Labor Day weekend, an end-of-summer tradition in the U.S. since it first began in...
Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan are lending their time and talents to the Muscular Dystrophy Association at the 2012 Labor Day Telethon. The...