Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:33
NASA announced a Grand Challenge on Tuesday to enlist government agencies, industry, academics and citizen astronomers in the hunt for asteroids that could cause massive destruction.
The US space...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:33
If the young people of Brazil are in the street, it is no longer just to play football there, contrary to the popular image of a country fixated with 'futebol' to the point of obsession.
Instead,...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:33
Fiji has offered more than 500 troops to the UN Golan Heights peacekeeping force after several countries withdrew because of the spillover from the Syria conflict, diplomats said Tuesday.
Fiji will...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:33
The injury-hit New York Yankees, fighting for a Major League Baseball playoff as mid-season nears, lost two more stars on Tuesday in first baseman Mark Teixeira and third baseman Kevin Youkilis....
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:32
Lawyers for five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks sought access Tuesday to confidential communications between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the men after they were held at...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:32
The world's largest fully solar-powered boat, "Turanor PlanetSolar," docked in New York on Tuesday during a mission to study the effects of climate change on the Gulf Stream current.
Sponsored in...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:32
Brasilia, Jun 18 (EFE).- President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday proposed a new regulatory framework for mining in Brazil, one of the world's biggest producers of iron, bauxite, gold, nickel, manganese...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:32
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers with antitrust oversight have urged the Obama administration to carefully review a planned merger of American Airlines <AAMRQ.PK> and US Airways Group...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:32
Leonardo DiCaprio parties hard in Martin Scorsese's 'Wolf of Wall Street' trailer
By Brent Lang Jun 17 (TheWrap.com) - Leonardo DiCaprio parties like he's in ancient Rome in the new trailer for "The...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:31
By Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung Kim
NEW YORK (Reuters) - SunGard Data Systems Inc, the computer software maker that was taken private in 2005 for $11.4 billion, is exploring a sale of its data...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:31
By Tim Molloy
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - With "The Voice" finale hours away, tell us if this scenario sounds familiar:
A give-it-your-all reality competition becomes a national fascination, and people...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:31
SAN JUAN (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating allegations that high-ranking bank officials in Puerto Rico conspired to have a former Doral Bank executive killed after he claimed he uncovered fraud,...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:31
By David Milliken and Matt Scuffham
LONDON (Reuters) - The fate of Britain's two state-controlled banks will become clearer on Wednesday, when finance minister George Osborne is likely to start the...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:31
(Reuters) - Britain's Vodafone Group Plc has raised its preliminary offer to buy Germany's largest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland Holding AG, a day after U.S. media group Liberty Global Plc made a...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:31
By Lisa Jucca
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court is expected to rule on Wednesday on whether legendary fashion duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana should be sent to prison for allegedly hiding...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:31
By Brent Lang
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It has been over a decade since "Monsters, Inc." and its two top scarers Mike and Sulley first proved that things that go bump in the night can be cuddly and...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:30
By Tim Kenneally
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Juan Antonio Bayona, director of "The Orphanage" and "The Impossible," has been tapped to direct the first two episodes of "Penny Dreadful," the Sam...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:30
By Catherine Hornby
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top court said on Tuesday it had ordered a retrial of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher because...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:30
TV chef Nigella Lawson's husband cautioned by police for assault
LONDON (Reuters) - Art collector Charles Saatchi has been cautioned by police for assaulting his wife, the celebrity chef Nigella...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 20:30
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed confidence Tuesday that his economic policies were endorsed at a summit of the Group of Eight major nations, saying none of his counterparts voiced...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 19:34
COURTENAY, B.C. - A fast and curious driver caught going 221 kilometres an hour in his new Subaru 20R through Vancouver Island traffic has lost his vehicle for seven days and netted a hefty fine....
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 19:34
EDMONTON - Police in Edmonton have withdrawn an Amber Alert for a nine-month-old baby girl they believed had been abducted by her mother.
They say the mother and child have been found and the baby is...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 19:34
WASHINGTON - The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 19:34
PHILADELPHIA - Would you like fees with that?
A Pennsylvania woman wants just the beef, not the fees she says she'll be charged to get her McDonald's wages from a debit card.
Single mom Natalie...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 19:34
GREENWOOD, Miss. - Greenwood will host the 2014 Mississippi-Alabama Rural Tourism Conference.
The conference focuses on assisting smaller communities in bolstering tourism. The 2014 conference is...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 19:34
TORONTO - A stronger vote of confidence for BlackBerry's future from analysts at RBC Capital Markets helped the smartphone company's stock rise nearly four per cent on Tuesday.
The bank raised...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 19:34
WASHINGTON - A federal bank that backed a huge airplane loan for Air India will have to explain that the loan didn't hurt U.S. airlines.
A lawsuit by Delta Air Lines Inc. had accused the Export-...
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