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A 15-year-old Michigan boy says he has no idea how he was able to lift a 900 kilogram Buick enough for his grandfather to escape from underneath.Austin Smith said he was working on the 1991 Buick with his grandfather, Ernest Papa Ernie Monhollen, at his grandparents' Ida Township home Saturday when...
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BEIRUT (AP)--A French photojournalist and an American working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France's government said.Activists said at least two other Western journalists were injured in barrages that claimed at lea...
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Afghan men extinguish a fire at an enclosed base belonging to foreigners during a protest against Koran desecration in Kabul on February 22, 2012. Fu...
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WASHINGTON (AFP) -- A U.S. man shot dead four people at a Korean spa outside Atlanta before turning the gun on himself in a grisly murder-suicide, police said early Wednesday.The Norcross Police Department said officers were called to the Su Jung Health Sauna at 8:41 p.m. Tuesday where they found t...
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RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) ― After more than nine weeks on hunger strike, Khader Adnan became the Palestinian prisoner with by far the l...
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PARIS (AP) ― French far right leader Marine Le Pen lost a legal battle Tuesday in her bid to run for president, with the Constitutional Court ruling...
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Obama administration opened the door slightly Tuesday to international military assistance for Syrias rebels, with officials saying new tactics may have to be explored if President Bashar Assad continues to defy pressure to halt a brutal crackdown on dissenters.In coordinated...
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SANAA (AFP) ― Yemeni voters ended President Ali Abdullah Salehs 33-year rule in a historic ballot on Tuesday, pinning hopes on a new leader faced wit...
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NEW YORK (AFP) ― U.S. bookseller BarnesNoble unveiled a new version of its Nook tablet computer Tuesday, a device with the same $199 price tag as Amazons Kindle Fire.The 7-inch Nook Tablet also has eight gigabytes of memory like the tablet released by online retail giant Amazon in November.Apples c...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says.In turn, corporations would have to give up dozens of loopholes and subsidies that...
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A Chinese company fighting Apple Inc. over its use of the iPad trademark in China took its complaints to a Shanghai court Wednesday, though it says it is willing to talk about a settlement.Shenzhen Proview Technology claims ownership over the iPad name. Apple says it bought the rights to the name i...
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China will overtake the U.S. as the worlds largest trading nation by 2016, as intra-Asian commerce and rising demand from emerging markets boost shipments, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.Trade in China and the Asia-Pacific will grow at an annualized pace almost twice as fast as the world average ov...
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The International Monetary Fund has offered to contribute 13 billion euros ($17.3 billion) so far to a second Greek bailout package, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said here Tuesday.That sum would come on top of 10 billion euros in IMF loan aid left over from an initial Greek rescue pla...
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ― The European Central Bank said Monday that it made no purchases of government bonds last week as it put on hold its controversial program to lower borrowing costs for indebted countries.The purchases had already dwindled to a negligible 59 million euros ($78 million) the w...
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Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation o...
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BRUSSELS (AP) -- After more than 12 hours of talks, the countries that use to euro reached an agreement early Tuesday to hand Greece (euro) 130 billi...
