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Saying the economy is 'leveling off,' the Federal reserve says it will stop buying U.S. Treasury bonds from banks. For the time being, it will leave interest rates at record lows.

IT'S a great big old world and it doesn't stop for anyone.

A military spokesman denied a recent report that militants have attacked Pakistan's nuclear facilities three times in two years, saying Wednesday there is 'absolutely no chance' the country's atomic weapons could fall into terrorist hands.

Two journalists from US news agency Associated Press have been seriously wounded in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.

The girlfriend of Michael Douglas' son is accused of smuggling heroin to him in an electric toothbrush while he was being held under home detention on drug charges in New York, court papers show. A security guard overheard Cameron Douglas requesting ...

Rep. David Scott (D-GA) recently went toe-to-toe with a protester at a town hall meeting on health care reform. Since then, Scott, who is black, says his office has received hostile messages from constituents, some of which contain racial epithets.

Jobless rate climbs to 7.8% of the workforceUnemployment in Britain jumped by 220,000 in the three months to June to 2.435 million, official data showed today, the highest level since 1995.The Office for National Statistics said that the jobless rate was now 7.8% of the workforce.The figures also showed a huge 271,000 drop in the number of people in work - the biggest fall since records began in 1971 - although there was a similar fall in the February to April period this year.There was a rise of more than 50,000 in the number of the under-25s without work to a total of 928,000, fuelling fears of a 'lost generation' of jobless. The Prince's Trust said that around half of these were able to claim unemployment benefit, which was now costing the government £3.4m a day.'But this is just the start of a long and downward spiral, which all too often leads to crime, homelessness or worse. Only by stopping young people falling out of the system can we rescue this lost potential and save the eco

Locations BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - August 12, 2009) - For adult children, one of the more difficult conversations to have with their aging parents is when it may be time for them to stop driving b...

Smartphones will be increasingly targeted for malware, says an Android security expert at Google.

It may be just a continuation of existing anti-drug efforts, but LatinAmerican leaders are alarmed by the Uribe government agreeing to an expandedU.S. military footprint on their turf