WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.
With a decision possibly looming in the weeks ahead, the controversial proposal to build the country's first offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound could face another delay.
North Andover (WBZ) -- The cause of death of a man who died following a struggle with state police is under investigation, Essex County district attorney's office spokesman Steve O'Connell announced Friday.
A FRENCH national has been arrested for soliciting sex from a child prostitute, police said on Monday.
A man in the UK who lived for a year without spending any money said today that it has been the happiest time of his life and he intends to continue.
EIGHTY files are to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by a garda team investigating fresh complaints of clerical child abuse.
THE invasion of Iraq was of "questionable legitimacy", Britain's ambassador to the United Nations at the time of the war said.
Russian authorities launched a probe into a possible terror attack today after an express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen today said it was shocking and disturbing that three decades of horrific child abuse was hidden by the Catholic hierarchy in Dublin.
Everyone has one friend who tends to cut loose a little too much at a wedding. In this viral video it ended in catastrophe.
Reporting from Sacramento - The Internal Revenue Service has filed a federal tax lien against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for nearly $80,000, public records show.
EDINBURG — Omar Salazar held his hands against his face as he walked into the jail courtroom Tuesday afternoon. Salazar had just been fired as a robbery investigator with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office as he was booked at the jail.
SANTA ANA-- A suspected human smuggler who refused to release a 4 year old girl he was paid to traffic over the Mexico-United States border has been arrested, authorities said.
REDD is one of those acronyms that you really should know and that you're going to be hearing more and more about. It stands for Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation.
Mark Twain famously said: "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." If only.
Over 2,000 trafficked children have been rescued since China's government began a crackdown on the trade in stolen children earlier this year.
A damning report into child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese has criticised the Catholic Church hierarchy for covering up the abuse. The report investigated how Church and state authorities handled allegations of child abuse against 46 priests.
The bus carrying Britney Spears' tour equipment has been involved in a serious accident in Australia - the vehicle was flipped off the road during a bad storm.
A Florida town manager fired for marrying a porn star has temporarily relocated to sleepy Groveland, where he has spent the past three months mailing dozens of applications in hot pursuit of a new gig.
Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman said she is no longer receiving food stamps or other forms of public assistance for her 14 children.
MOHAMMAD NAGAR DHANI, India - Her fate was all but sealed, the wedding bells ringing in her relatives' heads. Then the bride-to-be, a little girl playing in the dirt in this impoverished village, plucked up her courage and said, "I do not.''
YUCCA FLAT, Nev. - A sea of ancient water tainted by the Cold War is creeping deep under the volcanic peaks, dry lake beds, and pinyon pine forests covering a vast tract of Nevada.
WASHINGTON - Defense lawyers are alleging misconduct by Justice Department prosecutors in the case against one of five Blackwater security guards accused in the killings of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad.
NEWPORT, Vt. - The seaplane burst out of nowhere Tuesday in the skies above Lake Memphremagog, swooping low across the Canadian border and banking over a stand of bare trees.
LOS ANGELES -- Forget traffic violations, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has something bigger to worry about -- he owes more than $79,000 in back taxes.