A new tornado watch was issued just before daybreak Wednesday for all of metro Atlanta. At 7 am, National Weather Service radar showed thunderstorms approaching west Georgia from Alabama near I-20, with another cluster of storms moving ...

BOSTON -- British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $750 million to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs, including the popular antidepressant Paxil, ...

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) - Planes and helicopters packed with rescue workers and supplies landed for the first time Wednesday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 10-foot (three-meter) tsunami, sweeping away villages and killing at least ...

LONDON (Dow Jones)--The prospect of a limited amount of quantitative easing from the US Federal Reserve next month lifted the dollar against most other major currencies Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES -- Take a quick glance at the box score of the Lakers' 112-110 opening night victory over the Rockets, and you'll see familiar names jump out at you on the stat sheet.

By the CNN Wire Staff Prime Minister John Key holds a press conference in relation to "The Hobbit" film on Wednesday in Wellington.

AP -- Fortunately for LeBron James and his new Miami Heat superfriends, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh, the most glaring problems in their debut loss to the Boston Celtics can be fixed.

The Vatican on Tuesday urged clemency for Iraq's former deputy premier Tariq Aziz, after a court sentenced him to death for murder and crimes against humanity.

The San Francisco Giants take part in a running exercise in left field during a baseball workout at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010.

President Obama will make the fusion of politics and comedy official tonight by becoming the first sitting president to appear on Comedy Central's “Daily Show” just days before crucial midterm elections that could reshape his ...

The "Dancing with the Stars" rock week results show opens with host Tom Bergeron and sidekick Brooke Burke announcing that the previous night's two lowest vote-getters, Kurt Warner and Bristol Palin are not getting the hook this week ...

Computerworld - Security experts today suggested ways users can protect themselves against Firesheep, the new Firefox browser add-on that lets amateurs hijack users' access to Facebook, Twitter and other popular services via Wi-Fi.

'The more the intense ... the more I know I need to write a song about it,' Speak Now singer explains. By Jocelyn Vena (@jocelyn1212) , with reporting by Jim Cantiello (@jambajim) Taylor Swift writes songs about everything that happens to her: the good ...

Just in time for the holidays, the idea of a Playstation-branded mobile phone has come back to light with a new prototype image that has apparently surfaced.

With one more profitable quarter under its belt, 2010 is increasingly looking like Ford's big comeback year. The Dearborn automaker, which launched its turnaround plan in 2006, posted a $1.7-billion third-quarter profit Tuesday and ...

AP GOP Senate hopeful Joe Miller hammered away Tuesday at his campaign theme that the federal government must open up Alaska for development as a way out of its deficit spending problems, a plan his two rivals called unrealistic.

Corruption seems endemic. It follows war and chaos like an unwelcome cousin. Transparency International has just released its annual report ranking corruption across the world.