Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has announced her engagement to a Formula One team boss. Halliwell, 42, says in a notice Tuesday in the Times of London that she will wed Red Bull team principal...

What happens next in Japan-China relations depends not only on what they do, but also on what they don't do. A tentative, some would say grudging, first meeting between their leaders on Monday...

Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon has described his terminal colon cancer as the 'most amazing experience of my life', because he is surrounded by his loved ones and donating his $100 million fortune to...

Like thousands of other young men in the 1940s, Rupert Starr joined the Army, fought overseas and saw his share of hardship, including several weeks as a German prisoner of war. He returned to...

A South Korean court on Tuesday handed a 36-year prison sentence to the captain of a sunken ferry, saying he was professionally negligent and abandoned his passengers during the disaster in April that...

Police hunted Monday for the driver of a car that plowed at high speed into a group of churchgoers as they stood on a sidewalk after a service. At least 15 people were injured - including seven...

RUSSIA-ECONOMY MOSCOW - Russia's central bank has scrapped daily controls on the value of the ruble, allowing the battered currency to float freely in financial markets earlier than planned. The...

The Utah parents whose 5-year-old daughter was taken from their home say "divine providence" played a hand in keeping them calm and getting her back when her father confronted the...

Schoolchildren silently placed flowers next to 298 candles - one for each victim of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 - at a somber Dutch commemoration Monday of the air disaster that shook...

Thirty of the world's biggest banks would be required to hold vastly greater capital as a cushion for losses under new rules proposed Monday by a panel of central bankers, regulators and...