Oscar-winning film star Angelina Jolie revealed on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy after learning she …

The Cannes film festival may get some of its swagger back on Wednesday when it opens with Baz Luhrmann's lavish 3…

Actor Billy Crystal will give his autobiographical one-man play "700 Sundays" a Broadway send-off later thi…

Pop singer Christina Aguilera is in discussions to return as a judge on NBC television singing competition "The …

Walt Disney Co's ABC network is tapping its blockbuster "Avengers" franchise for a new TV show, looking…

Diamond jewelry belonging to Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida sold for more than 4.74 million Swiss francs ($4.9 mil…

A gay South Korean film director is set to symbolically marry his long-term partner, saying he aims to pry open the c…

Top-rated U.S. broadcast network CBS will bring comedian Robin Williams back to television next season to plug one of…

The chairman of Florida's Democratic Party congratulated President Barack Obama on Thursday on winning the battle…

Newly re-elected President Barack Obama will make a statement on the economy on Friday, the White House said, setting…

Political watchdog and secularist groups are asking the U.S. government to investigate whether Catholic bishops and a…

Nate Silver is an oxymoron come to life: the famous statistician. After successfully calling the Electoral College …

President Barack Obama had little time to savor victory on Wednesday after voters gave him a second term in the White…

Top Republican lawmaker John Boehner said on Thursday he would not make it his mission to repeal the Obama administra…

Florida Governor Rick Scott ordered his top elections official on Wednesday to figure out what caused long lines at p…

Two dozen business, labor and civic leaders, including the chief executives of major U.S. corporations such as Ford, …

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose for a fourth straight day on Wednesday as tech shares gained and offset some wea…

Southwest Airlines Co on Wednesday announced a boost in its dividend and its share repurchase program and said it is …

Top-rated U.S. broadcast network CBS will bring comedian Robin Williams back to television next season to plug one of…

The Portuguese government and JP Morgan Chase & Co are attempting to resolve a tussle over potentially costly der…

Financial regulators have given themselves until September to try to resolve differences over how to supervise deriva…

Angola's hopes of becoming this year's only major new liquefied natural gas supplier suffered another setback…

Colombia, the world's fourth-largest exporter of coal, said on Wednesday it produced 18.4 million tonnes of coal …

HSBC will redouble its cost-cutting efforts, including axing up to 14,000 more jobs, but Europe's largest bank wa…

Google Inc : * Says 900 million android devices activated as of now * Says revenue per user for app developers in G…

Google Inc faces another grilling over its tax affairs from a committee of British lawmakers on Thursday who have cal…

Some 900 million smartphones and tablets running Google Inc's Android software have been activated since the plat…

European shares scaled new five-year highs on Wednesday, led by gains for several major Swiss stocks after a fresh fa…

Google Inc : * Announces Google play music all access music subscription service * Says new music service will cost…

Shoppers Drug Mart Corp on Wednesday sold C$500 million ($490 million) of senior unsecured medium-term notes in two p…

U.S. stocks climbed on Wednesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting new all-time highs as the market's recent …

EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Spain's plan to offer a 25.2 million euros ($32.71 million) gra…

Four British hackers who took part in 2011 cyber-attacks on targets ranging from the CIA to Sony were audacious, arro…

Macy's Inc reported higher first-quarter profit and sales on Wednesday as it won market share from rival departme…

The European Commission has told China it is prepared to launch an investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by p…