A day after a powerful earthquake devastated cities along Peru’s southern coast, government officials put the death toll at 437, with at least 17,000 people displaced and with wide areas without power, telephone service or road access on Thursday night.
The Dow Jones and the FTSE each climbed sharply after the US Federal Reserve cut the discount rate 0.5% to 5.75%.
Jack McClellan has made himself a marked man -- a self-described pedophile whose behavior has creeped out parents and child advocates nationwide.
The summer´s maddening backlog in passport applications has forced officials to abandon the old standard of a week´s wait for people willing to pay $60 extra for speedy service.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 plummets below 6,000 in steepest fall since the end of the dot-com crisis, as Dow opens lower.
More than 330 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured after a powerful earthquake hit Peru’s coast near the capital, toppling buildings and setting off landslides.
Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was released on $250,000 bail after pleading guilty Wednesday to two felonies related to wagering on games he officiated and supplying inside information on games to others.
In life, Brooke Astor was a picture of poise and largesse. With her death, the brewing battle over her estate could be much less dignified.
U.S. spy technology is expected to help law enforcement and immigration officials keep a closer watch on U.S. borders.
Global investors slashed exposure to risk on Thursday, driving key stock benchmarks to multi-year lows and setting the yen soaring as traders exited high yielding assets and opted for the safety of government bonds and cash.
Did you know it´s illegal in France to name a pig Napoleon? Or that in Ohio you´re not allowed to get a fish drunk? Alex Wade celebrates the spirit of the silly season with a list of the world´s most ridiculous laws
The decision this month to hold interest rates was unanimous, but the MPC says that the future is less certain.
The Anglo-Dutch group withdraws staff from one of its Gulf of Mexico rigs as hurricane forecasts send the price of oil higher.
Key price reading up slightly, thanks to lower gasoline prices; economists debate whether it opens door to Fed rate cut.
A man who blogs about his attraction to young girls but says he doesn´t touch them was arrested Monday near a university child care facility with a camera, police said.
Russia launched a terrorism investigation on Tuesday after a bomb derailed an express train traveling from Moscow to St Petersburg, overturning carriages and injuring dozens of passengers.
The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died amid flash flooding during Hurricane Katrina are set to stand trial on Monday on negligent homicide charges.
The Government warned climate change protesters at Heathrow last night to stay within the bounds of the law, as fears grew that militant elements would mount illegal protests.
Lord Black of Crossharbour and two former Hollinger colleagues convicted of defrauding the newspaper group should be forced to forfeit $16.95 million (£8.5 million) according to a petition from US prosecutors.
A new regime takes effect this October that should help to protect the elderly, particularly against pressure to change a will to relatives’ dismay. But will it?
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