Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship being held in New York after ...

Big Lots said Friday it will be sold to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, a firm that specializes in distressed companies.

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small ...

Yellen told Congress her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended ...

LONDON — Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," has died, her family ...

Gaza's Health Ministry said Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested by Israeli forces along ...

Discrimination based on someone's age is so ingrained in society that most of us don't notice it. Yet it affects us all and ...

Severe weather conditions across the U.S. could disrupt holiday travel this weekend, as millions of people set out to reach ...

The Kremlin said air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike as the Azerbaijani airliner attempted to land, but stopped short of saying one of these hit the plane.

The faiths in our family include skepticism. But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the ...

Moo Deng and Haggis are joined by another slick, round supreme on the scene. Fans of the new baby can cast their vote to name ...

"Bubble butt" can leave turtles struggling to swim normally — or unable to submerge at all. A 3D-printed harness can help.