U.S. home prices jump to record high with spring selling season underway
Sales of new homes jumped in April, while prices climb to record high, a signal that spring selling season is underway amid signs of a more robust housing market.
Read more ›The number of Americans applying for new unemployment benefits dropped last week by more than expected, an indication that the labor market is slowly improving.
JPMorgan Chase was fined by UK regulators on Thursday of 3.1mn pounds ($4.7mn) for its failure to fix issues in its wealth-management unit.
Mexico’s retail sales contracted for the second straight month in March, surprising analysts and increasing the likelihood that policy makers will make another rate cut this year.
Actor and comedian Billy Crystal is all set to star in the pilot of the upcoming FX comedy titled “The Comedians.”
“Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts is all set to pen a memoir recounting her battle against a rare blood disorder to be released in April 2014.
Music stars Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio have been officially announced as the new judges of The X Factor U.S.A., sitting beside Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato.
Mounds of food aid intended for Swaziland’s food insecure were recently found rotting in the government’s main storage warehouses at the Matsapha Industrial Estate, about 25km east of the capital, Mbabane.
North Korea has set up an emergency committee to address bird flu threat and culled birds.
Reseachers at New York’s Yeshiva University have accidentally discovered that Vitamin C can kill multi-drug resistant TB bacteria in a laboratory experiment.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent on Wednesday shot and killed a man linked to Boston bomb suspect during an interrogation in the US state of Florida.
Two unidentified men on Wednesday attacked a serving British soldier and killed him brutally with knives and a gun near a London barracks.
An FBI agent shot and killed a Chechen man in a Florida apartment on Wednesday when the latter attacked him and other officers with a knife during an interrogation about an unsolved triple murder case in Massachusetts in 2011 and the Boston Marathon bombings last month.
After officially announcing the purchase of blog content website Tumblr, Yahoo continued its shopping spree. The online giant also bought gaming arena PlayerScale.
Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook faced the US senate Tuesday to answer inquiries about the company’s tax habits.
It’s official: Yahoo has completed the purchase of blog platform Tumblr.
Japan is helping the Philippines beef up its coast guard capacity and the two countries will also strengthen strategic partnership.
India and Japan will be holding bilateral talks and high on the agenda is civil nuclear cooperation.
Edwin Oliva, a 29-year-old petty thief and drug addict, says he was a wreck as he sat in a chair in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office in winter’95. A year earlier, he’d told police a lie that helped implicate a possibly innocent man in a murder. Now, prosecutors wanted him to repeat his story in court; he wanted to take it back.
A supermarket in the Florida town of Zephyrhills sold the single-largest winning Powerball ticket in U.S. history with a jackpot prize of $590.5 million.
The National Transportation Safety Board has urged states to redefine a drunk driver as those with 0.05 percent blood alcohol concentration in response to the increase in alcohol-related traffic deaths last year.
Unidentified gunmen fired at a second line of a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans Sunday injuring 19 people, according to police.
Sales of new homes jumped in April, while prices climb to record high, a signal that spring selling season is underway amid signs of a more robust housing market.
Read more ›Actor Morgan Freeman has dozed off during an interview with the Q13 FOX News This Morning in Los Angeles Wednesday. Freeman, however, quickly recovered from his sleepiness and attended to some questions.
Read more ›Actors Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt are now proud parents to a baby girl. The couple’s representatives confirmed the baby news on Wednesday, saying the new parents are “thrilled to announce the arrival of their daughter, Gracie James Livingston.”
Read more ›The number of Americans applying for new unemployment benefits dropped last week by more than expected, an indication that the labor market is slowly improving.
Read more ›After officially announcing the purchase of blog content website Tumblr, Yahoo continued its shopping spree. The online giant also bought gaming arena PlayerScale.
Read more ›JPMorgan Chase was fined by UK regulators on Thursday of 3.1mn pounds ($4.7mn) for its failure to fix issues in its wealth-management unit.
Read more ›Japan is helping the Philippines beef up its coast guard capacity and the two countries will also strengthen strategic partnership.
Read more ›India and Japan will be holding bilateral talks and high on the agenda is civil nuclear cooperation.
Read more ›Edwin Oliva, a 29-year-old petty thief and drug addict, says he was a wreck as he sat in a chair in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office in winter’95. A year earlier, he’d told police a lie that helped implicate a possibly innocent man in a murder. Now, prosecutors wanted him to repeat his story in court; he wanted to take it back.
Read more ›Mounds of food aid intended for Swaziland’s food insecure were recently found rotting in the government’s main storage warehouses at the Matsapha Industrial Estate, about 25km east of the capital, Mbabane.
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