Honduras blocked ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s return from exile on Sunday. Zelaya tried to fly back from Washington and land in Tegucigalpa, but clashes between his supporters and troops at ...

In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more virtual socializing on the Web.

Pope Benedict on Friday became one of the oldest people to have his own YouTube channel, and he cautioned the young to use new media wisely and to avoid on-line obsession that can isolate them ...

Despite the recession angst dominating worldwide, suppliers of luxurious products and services are seeing their sector boom. The luxury business is experiencing such success because money is never ...

When rock band U2 played at the Grand Palais of the Cannes film festival in 2007 to trumpet their new three-dimensional concert movie, backers of modern 3-D films hailed the coming of a new era in ...

An animated comedy adventure helped lift the mood at the start of the Cannes film festival as cinema's biggest and glitziest gathering prepared to roll out the red carpet on Wednesday. "Up" is ...

Police arrested eight Aboriginal activists after they climbed a fence into a government site Wednesday to protest the culling of 400 kangaroos, which are viewed as sacred symbols by Australia's ...

Guinea has been suspended from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS until General Moussa Dadis' junta holds elections. Dadis seized power in December following the death of former president ...

Steve Jobs is breaking with tradition: On Monday, the Apple chief will not present the new products for the first time in years. His replacement Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to be taken over by the government as soon as this weekend in a bold move designed to protect the mortgage market from the risk the companies could fail, a ...

Suspected Somali pirates have seized a German-owned cargo ship off the coast of the Gulf Arab state of Oman, the first recorded attack in its territorial waters, NATO alliance staff said on Friday ...

In reaction to the escalating cost of living on the French Caribbean island Guadeloupe, protesters ransacked shops and burned cars, with a senior local official saying the island was "on the verge ...