Already expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making...

The United States opened its banking market to China’s biggest bank ICBC, for the first time clearing...

The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of U.S. federal advisers, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS.

Gay rights groups cheered Wednesday's announcement by US President Barack Obama that he supports same-sex marriage.

It’s hard to watch the 2012 elections and not think that political and religious lines are cutting ever...

Vladimir Putin takes office today as Russian president for a historic third term in a glittering Kremlin ceremony shadowed by bloody clashes between police and the protest movement against his rule

Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday.

In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave...

The Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition winners have been announced. The fourth Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition received over 700 poems from 250 poets.

Scarlett Johansson was honored with her own star on Hollywood's storied Walk of Fame on Wednesday, saying it proved she must have "made it to the big time."

Facebook has become an official observer at the Global Network Initiative, a non-government organization...

A U.S. college student who was forgotten by federal drug agents and left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet.

Three people were dead and one missing after a US sailboat taking part in a race apparently sank off the coast of Southern California, officials said.

Once the NFL draft got past quarterbacks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, it was like a day on Wall Street - everybody wanted to make a trade.

Royal Dutch Shell delivered forecast-busting first quarter earnings yesterday as it benefited from an increase in production and the higher price of oil.

With the sale of over 35 million İphones and 12 million İpads in the March quarter, Apple manage to rake in a whopping $11.6 billion

The Turkish film “Fetih 1453: The Conquest of Constantinople,” which tells the story...

A nondescript building in the heart of California's dairy country has become the focus of intense scrutiny after mad cow disease...

An Iranian military commander says the Islamic republic is building a copy of a US spy drone captured in December 2011 and reveals ‘codes’ gleaned from unmanned aircraft

An Iranian military commander today said the Islamic republic is building a copy of a US spy drone captured in December 2011 and revealed what he said were "codes" gleaned from unmanned aircraft.