UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
Teenage programmer Nick d'Aloisio's decision to sell his news application Summly to Yahoo for what's rumored to be a massive payout has turned him into a media sensation.
A university in the US state of Texas on Tuesday evacuated its campus due to an anonymous bomb threat.
The World Bank welcomed the move taken by the BRICS countries to establish a development bank, vowing to work closely with the new lender to end poverty.
The state of US economy remains the top concern for Americans in 2013, as a Gallup poll released on Tuesday shows that 68 percent of them worry about the economy "a great deal".
The former CIA director Petraeus will make his first public speech since resigning in November over an extramarital affair.
The Obama administration dismissed Pyongyang's fresh threats of striking bases in the US and the Republic of Korea as following a pattern "designed to raise tensions and intimidate others".
Visitors view flowers and plants during the Macy's Flower Show 2013 at Macy's Herald Square Broadway Plaza in New York City, March 25, 2013.
US President Barack Obama on Monday used the moment of a naturalization ceremony at the White House to push Congress to put forward the immigration reform legislation.
As many as 11 forest fires have spread through 2,500 hectares of land in Mexico's north central state of San Luis Potosi, forcing at least 400 people to leave their homes.
The Bank of China (BOC) opened a new branch to business in downtown Chicago on Friday, the fourth in the United States.
The US Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that 149 airport control towers will be closed across the country beginning on April 7.
The Obama administration will give states $20 million to strengthen the national gun background check system, as part of the White House's gun control proposals.