You're not allowed to light a cigarette in New York bars, but there's nothing to stop a bartender from setting your cocktail on fire with a 815 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit) poker.

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A 'psychotic' Indian mother, who threw her 19-month-old baby into the Hudson river two years ago, has been allowed to return home to reunite with her daughters after a court here was told that her men

News Corp. said on Wednesday that its net profit rose 65 per cent in the second quarter of its fiscal year to $1.06 billion.

Revenue at Rupert Murdoch's media and entertainment empire was up two per

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc promised further revenue growth after its second quarter results beat estimates, thanks to a restructuring, leading to a dividend increase.

The company, a se

A new crop of companies entering the U.S. public markets, including such high-profile offerings as Facebook, are turning the clock back on the way U.S. corporations are run.

Facebook, Groupon Inc, Li

Kodak says it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in order to focus on its more profitable businesses.

The storied photography company, which filed for b

Fashion models in the United States launched a rights group on Monday ahead of New York Fashion Week to seek workplace standards including backstage privacy to stop unauthorised nude photos and a prog

Rajat Gupta, a former director of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble who is the highest-ranking executive charged in a U.S. crackdown on insider trading, could face additional allegations, a federal p

Semiconductor maker Micron Technology has named Mark Durcan its interim chief executive officer to replace Steve Appleton, who had died in a plane crash.

The company's board of directors also announc

A nine-year-old girl is making what doctors described as a remarkable recovery on Sunday, days after surgeons transplanted six of her organs in a groundbreaking medical procedure.

The surgery perfor