NUCLEAR MISSTEPS MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, North Dakota - Pledging firm action to support the men and women who handle the world's most powerful and deadly weapons, the Pentagon will spend an...

Under pressure to jolt the stubbornly lethargic world economy back to life, leaders of G-20 nations on Sunday finalized a plan to boost global GDP by more than $2 trillion over five years by investing...

Devices that gather data from millions of mobile phones are being flown over the US by the government, according to the Wall Street Journal. The "dirtbox" devices mimic mobile phone tower...

Deepwater drilling rigs are sitting idle. Fracking plans are being scaled back. Enormous new projects to squeeze oil out of the tar sands of Canada are being shelved. Maybe low oil prices aren't...

A researcher who has attracted attention and criticism with his revisionist Biblical theories says he has found new evidence that Jesus was marriedto Mary Magdalene and that early Christians...

EUROPE-ECONOMY LONDON - Fears that the 18-country eurozone could be heading back into recession eased Friday with the news that it grew faster than expected in the third quarter, thanks to a...

European leaders will discuss the escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine when they meet President Barack Obama at a summit of world leaders in Australia this weekend ahead of an EU decision on...

Diem Brown has lost a long battle with cancer. The reality star and advocate for cancer survivors died Friday in a New York hospital, according to E! Network correspondent Alicia Quarles. She was...

A Polish doctor says she has been in "deep shock" since learning that a 91-year-old woman she pronounced dead woke up in a morgue several hours later. The doctor - identified in the media as...

Archaeologists picking through latrines, sewers, cesspits and trash dumps at Pompeii and Herculaneum have found tantalizing clues to an apparently varied diet there before the eruption of Mount...