NEW YORK - The chief of Lazard investment bank, Bruce Wasserstein, who played a key role in some of Wall Street's biggest deals over the past 30 years, died Wednesday, a spokesman for the company...
LOS ANGELES - The mother of one of the two teenagers responsible for the 1999 Columbine school massacre has spoken out about the tragedy for the first time after a decade of silence.
Susan...
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay's congress Monday approved a sex change law, the latest liberal move by the tiny South American nation which has also given the nod to civil unions for gays and adoptions by gay...
LONDON - France has the best quality of life out of Europe's biggest countries, while Britain has the worst despite having the highest incomes, a study said Monday.
British workers can expect to...
LONDON - Up to 100,000 pilgrims are expected to flock to the mother church of Roman Catholics in England for the culmination of a tour of the relics of a 19th century French nun which arrived in...
NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith - The son of millionaire philanthropist Brooke Astor was found guilty Thursday of defrauding his late mother while she suffered from Alzheimer's in New York's biggest...
MIAMI- A disgruntled customer shot and wounded a server at a US fast food restaurant because he was refused service in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.
At around three in the morning the...
RIYADH - Saudi King Abdullah sacked a hardline cleric from the powerful Council of Senior Ulema on Monday after he criticised the breakthrough policy of mixing the genders at a new university...
PARIS - More than half of the babies born today in rich countries will live to 100 years if current trends of life expectancy continue, a study appearing in the medical journal The Lancet said on...
BRASILIA - Millions of Brazilian students gained some extra cramming time Thursday when Brazil's Education Ministry postponed a national exam after a newspaper was offered a copy of the test.
Over...