Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.
An Oregon woman obsessed with bunnies has been ordered back behind bars after police found her in a hotel room with more than a dozen rabbits.
A video released Thursday showed Michael Jackson vigorously practicing a song-and-dance routine days before his death, supporting accounts he had been in good health.
Nurse: Insomniac Jackson begged for drug
Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a nutritionist who was working with the singer as he prepared his comeback bid.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she expected leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised nations to endorse a goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Thursday for the expansion of the Group of Eight (G8), saying that leading emerging economies should be included.
US President Barack Obama will focus on Iran's issues during his visit to Russia and the G8 summit in Italy next week, a senior US official said here Wednesday.
Oscar winner Karl Malden, the bulbous-nosed character actor acclaimed for film roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront before gaining TV fame as a leading man in The Streets of San Francisco, died on Wednesday at age 97.
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste, shrewd financial investors often say while trying to rake a fortune from the rebound after market crashes.
The sole survivor of a Yemeni jet that plunged into deep water on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros was reunited with her father back in France early on Thursday.
A federal judge sentenced a retired University of Tennessee professor to four years in prison Wednesday for passing sensitive information from a US Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and Iran.
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