Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

In the ultimate accolade for the world’s mad scientists, spoof Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday for studies into beetle sex, turtles yawning, the desperation of people dying to urinate and other daf

Global stocks closed their worst quarter in nearly three years on Friday on nagging concerns about the world economy and the lack of a credible solution to Europe's debt crisis.

The euro and most com

Much effort has been directed in the past six months at securing for India the status of a permanent member of the UN Security Council, sources said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s addres

Dominique Strauss-Kahn claimed Monday he has diplomatic immunity and asked a New York court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the hotel maid who says he sexually assaulted her.

Attorneys for the former I

A lesbian actress who starred in ‘The L-Word’ said she kissed a girl, and got escorted off of a Southwest Airlines flight on Monday for doing it.

Leisha Hailey took to Twitter to call for a boycott

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday that he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an hour in the morning to brief him on economic issues after his meetings with the World Bank

Two US hikers accused Iran on Sunday of using them as ‘hostages’ in its power struggle with the West and described hearing the anguished cries of fellow inmates being beaten in Tehran's Evin prison.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Sunday that he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an hour in the morning to brief him on economic issues after his meetings with the World Bank and

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is back in the saddle for a familiar role - chairman of the G-24, or group of 24 developing countries, after a gap of 28 years.

An amused Mukherjee, who was the fina