A child of the Great Depression, John Milkovisch didn't throw anything away — not even the empty cans of beer he enjoyed each afternoon with his wife.     So, in the early...

The days of buying pornographic videos with names based on Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors are over.   Caballero Video has agreed to stop marketing "Boston Cream Thigh,"...

An entire province in the Philippines has been plunged into darkness after the national power grid operator cut off supply because of accumulated debt of $93 million.    The blackout that...

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told Parliament on Thursday that he was wrong to trust his former party financial chief for so many years, and repeated his vigorous denials of the...

Silvio Berlusconi's fate is hanging in the balance as Italy's highest court deliberates his appeal of a tax fraud conviction and sentence of four years in jail and a five-year ban on political...

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted a comment he made this week suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country's constitution, following complaints from...

Lindsay Lohan has completed her court-ordered stay in rehab and must continue therapy into late next year, a judge said Wednesday.   The "Liz & Dick" star must meet with a...

Author J.K. Rowling accepted an apology and a charitable donation Wednesday from a law firm which revealed she wrote a crime novel under a pseudonym.   The "Harry Potter" author...

The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said on Russian television that he is grateful to the Kremlin for protecting his son.   Speaking on state Rossiya 24 television...

A prosecutor has asked Italy's highest court to uphold Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction and four-year jail sentence, but to reduce his ban on public office to three years from...