A Mysore-born Indian public affairs specialist has been charged with revitalising the Muslim Public Service Network (MPSN) that grooms young American Muslims for public service and to take on civic...

American aid to Egypt, which is estimated at an average of two billion dollars a year, is reportedly in peril with U.S. lawmakers threatening to block assistance in response to Egypt's crackdown on...

Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders believes that the American economy is improving, and the potential for giving jobs to the unemployed is getting stronger.

"Its pretty close...

A Mysore-born Indian American public affairs specialist has been charged with revitalising the Muslim Public Service Network that grooms young American Muslims for public service and to take on civic...

British Olympic boxing medallist Amir Khan recently took his fiancee Faryal Makhdoom for a tour of his hometown Bolton, England.

Last month, Makhdoom had showed him around her native New York.

The...

The New York Giants have won their second Super Bowl title in four years and fourth overall after beating the New England Patriots in the final.

The Giant's Eli Manning engineered a nine-play,...

Gerard Depardieu will star as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film by US director Abel Ferrara about the New York sex scandal that caused the former IMF chief to resign.

Ferrera met Depardieu, 63, at...

In a tell-all memoir, President John F Kennedy's teenage mistress describes how she lost her virginity to the former U.S. President when he seduced her in his wife's bedroom following a pool party...

Egypt will prosecute 44 non-governmental organization workers, including 19 American nationals, on charges of allegedly receiving foreign funds illegally and being involved in banned activities in...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday paid a short visit to Bulgaria and discussed energy issues and military cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Xinhua reported.

At a...

L.A. Reid has reportedly signed up to be a judge on the second series of the American version of "The X Factor".

The 55-year-old has reportedly signed a contract to reprise his position on the panel...

American comedian Joan Rivers claims she has had a total of 739 surgical procedures.

According to showbizspy.com, the 78-year-old TV personality has gone under the knife more than 700 times, and...

Then US president John F. Kenendy took the virginity of a White House intern in a side room a few feet away from where staffers were drinking at an after-work party, the Daily Mail Sunday quoted a...

CHICAGO - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the...

New York Giants fans celebrate the last touch down of New York Giants during the fourth quarter at Times Square in New York January 5, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo...

ATLANTA -; The family of a Georgia woman claims a homeowners association should have removed an alligator from a subdivision that they say may have killed the woman. The Georgia Supreme Court is...

WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama says one of the toughest parts about being president is that his wife has been dragged into the "political realm." Obama was responding to a...

WASHINGTON -; The Obama administration has closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus and pulled all American diplomats out of Syria. Officials say Ambassador Robert Ford and other diplomats left Syria...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -; A third U.S.-based cruise ship with an outbreak of stomach illness has sailed again after being decontaminated in South Florida. The vessel Ruby Princess sailed Sunday...

The smoldering remains of a house, left, where an explosion killed Josh Powell and his two sons, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, is shown from the air in Graham, Wash. The explosion occurred moments after a...

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to reporters after the Security Council voted on a resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar...

WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama said the U.S. has a "very good estimate" of when Iran could complete work on a nuclear weapon, but cautioned that there are still many unanswered...

WASHINGTON -; The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is keeping up the Obama administration's pressure on Egypt to release 19 Americans facing trial on allegations of encouraging unrest in...

SAVANNAH, Ga. -; Authorities say a Georgia man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a Savannah gun show. Police say 26-year-old Charles Lake was leaving the gun show at...

The Obama administration pressed Russia on Friday to back a softened version of a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the violence in Syria, though it was unclear if the compromise wording...

A paralyzed British man who wants to die won the first round in his legal battle Friday, when the High Court ruled his lawyers won't be prosecuted if they seek out experts to help him commit...

Authorities say a 14-year-old Utah boy who accidentally killed himself with a miniature cannon died after suffering severe head trauma from the powerful blast, not from being hit with a...

Fidel Castro presented the apparently exhaustive two-volume account of his life up until 1958 at a book launch in the capital Havana on Friday. The book, entitled...

Dozens of US Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged over the weekend to raid one of the last remaining Occupy sites in the US.The police cleared away tents they said were banned...

FIDEL Castro, the 85-year-old revolutionary who led Cuba for nearly 50 years, is publishing a two-volume memoir called 'Guerrilla of Time'.In a rare public appearance, the ailing former...

Israel Discount Bank of New York were flat in 2011. The bank posted a net profit of $50.1 million in 2011, down from $50.6 million in 2010, and the return on equity fell to 6.5% from 6.9%,...

Another Super Bowl, another slew of ads. It’s become a predictable–perhaps, at this point, even rote–occasion: A volley of commercials insinuate themselves into our homes, packaged...

The Green Bay Packers may not have made it to Indianapolis this past weekend for Super Bowl XVLI, but Milwaukee and Wisconsin were well represented at the big game. Check out a special slideshow of...

Follow this company ' planned 2,100 layoffs in Tulsa, part of the airline's larger plan to cut costs following a bankruptcy filing. ...

Follow this company after her long-suffering stint as head of the bank's troubled mortgage operations. BofA announced her retirement in an internal...

By The Associated Press Mitt Romney's remark that he's not worried about the very poor, the latest gaffe in a campaign rich with blunders, joins a long list of wait-let-me-explain episodes...

It is illegal for American universities to pay recruiters for each American student they bring to a school, but no such rules exist about foreign...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday February 2nd that the economic recovery in the US remained "frustratingly slow" and the Europe's debt crisis has complicated the recovery...

HALLSVILLE, Missouri (Reuters) - Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stung by election-year criticism of a program used by one in seven Americans, administrators of U.S. food stamp benefits are intensifying efforts to combat fraud and protect...

Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, discusses Egypt's plan to prosecute 19 Americans, and America's reaction to Russia and China's veto of sanctions against Syria with...

>Editor's note: Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. (CNN) -- A last-ditch effort...