Worries over the financial health of a major Portuguese lender spooked global markets, although U.S. shares finished well off their lows of the session. Treasurys, gold and the yen rose as investors sought safety. Oil prices snapped a nine-session losing ...

(Reuters) - The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced nominees on Thursday for the Emmy Awards, television's highest honors. The Emmy winners will be announced at an Aug. 25 ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, which will be ...

Kerry will hold rare one-on-one meeting with Iran's FM to test "willingness to commit to credible and verifiable steps"; plans to brief Obama on options if talks fail. John Kerry Photo: REUTERS. VIENNA -- The fate of a major diplomatic effort by world powers with ...

Palestinians search for bodies at a beach cafe hit the previous night by an Israeli air strike while people were watching the World Cup semi-final football match, on July 10, 2014 in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis. Eight people were killed and at ...

Bryan Cranston as Walter White in "Breaking Bad" was nominated for an Emmy Award for best actor in a drama series. AP Photo/AMC, Ursula Coyote. Connect; Tweet; RSS; Follow; Email; Print; Share. Associated Press. LOS ANGELES: There is fierce ...

The success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's politics has been in appealing to the material aspirations of India's emergent middle class, while maintaining the core ideology of the Sangh Parivar as a subtext. In the maiden Budget of his government, Finance ...

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, today, July 11, to meet with Afghan leaders including presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani and President Hamid Karzai. The Secretary will discuss the ongoing political ...

US stocks recovered from a sharp opening fall sparked by a Portugal bank scare and general investor caution to end with modest losses on Thursday. PHOTOS. A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AFP/Spencer Platt). Enlarge ...

From "Ryan's Hope" to Captain Janeway to Red, Kate Mulgrew spent nearly 40 years in the industry before earning her first Emmy nomination. On Thursday, July 10, the actress was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her ...

The US Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that its in-app purchasing system wrongly charged consumers millions of dollars – and that Bezos & Co knew about the problem and did nothing to rectify it. "As internal emails ...

US stocks have recovered from a sharp opening fall sparked by a Portugal bank scare and general investor caution to end with modest losses. After the initial reaction, traders appeared to discount the potential impact of problems in Lisbon-based Banco ...

More than three-quarters of the U.S. House of Representatives has called on President Barack Obama to consult with Congress about any final deal with Iran over its nuclear activities. The call comes in a letter signed by 342 lawmakers, both Republicans and ...

We may be just years away from the longest-lasting and most hassle-free contraceptive ever invented. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it is backing a Massachusetts biotech company that is developing an implantable contraceptive ...

We may be just years away from the longest-lasting and most hassle-free contraceptive ever invented. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it is backing a Massachusetts biotech company that is developing an implantable contraceptive ...

Finance minister Arun Jaitley has set an ambitious target to nurse India's delicate public finances back to health. He pledged to stick to a fiscal deficit target of 4.1% of GDP in 2014-15, penciling in a 17% rise in tax revenue collections during the year and ...

The Good Wife didn't get snubbed by the Emmys — it got spurned. Sure, The Americans, Tatiana Maslany from Orphan Black and Brooklyn Nine-Nine all probably deserved nominations too — but those oversights can be rationalized. The Good Wife's missing ...

JERUSALEM — The death toll from Israel's aerial offensive in Gaza rose yesterday, while rocket fire from the Palestinian coastal enclave reached ever-broader swathes of Israel. A spokesman for the Israeli military said about 20,000 reserve troops had been ...

In the build-up to the 1986 World Cup finals, Diego Maradona, it emerged years later, had been preoccupied with the unborn child – his child – that his lover Cristiana Sinagra was carrying. In his seminal biography of Maradona, The Hand of God, Jimmy ...

Reims, France (SportsNetwork.com) - Andre Greipel of Germany won Stage 6 of the Tour de France and Italy's Vincenzo Nibali remained the overall leader of cycling's most prestigious race. Greipel won a sprint to the finish on Thursday, finishing the ...

(CNN) -- Another year of Emmy Award nominations, another year of "They forgot who?!" Though the Emmys are commonly known as the arbiter of excellence in television, with so many good shows on the air right now, they inevitably also become the leader ...