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Israel's top police officers recommended that the prime minister be indicted for alleged fraud and bribery

Almost a quarter of the population will be pushed into fuel poverty by the end of next year as prices rise, a report suggests.

The government's historic bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday will be good news to homebuyers and some homeowners hoping to refinance if it leads to lower mortgage rates, as experts expect. But for homeowners already behind on their mortgage...

Hurricane Ike tore into Cuba's northeastern coast Monday on a path that could take it over Havana on Tuesday morning and then toward the storm-weary U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week. Rains and flooding from Ike have killed at least 73 people in Haiti.

In her first 20 months as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin completed a deal for a natural gas pipeline that had been a top economic goal for the state for nearly two decades.

Just two days after the U.S. military conducted a raid on Pakistani territory across the border from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S. said his country would “never” allow foreign troops to operate on Pakistani soil.

The District of Columbia Housing Authority paid $322,389 in housing assistance payments for units where no one was living, according to a July 30, 2008 audit by the Philadelphia Regional Office of the HUD.

Canadian Prime minister Stephen Harper dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election for next month, kicking off ...

Reported caused by missile strikes, rocked Pakistan's Miran Shah area.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least six people on Monday in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, witnesses said.