Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor with President Obama later this month. Abe will become the first sitting Japanese leader to visit the site of Japan's 1941 attack on the U.S. Naval base that prompted the United Stat...
President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House. He made the announcement in a video message outlining what he intends to do first when he takes office...
US president Barack Obama has said he may speak out after leaving office if he feels his successor Donald Trump is threatening core American values. By convention, former presidents tend to leave the political fray and avoid commenting on th...
The US presidency has been traditionally held by rich men. Not always—Truman, Coolidge, Lincoln, Grant and a few others were not wealthy and amongst our “poorest” presidents, according to 24/7 Wall Street’s defini...
E-commerce giant Alibaba looks set to smash the sales record for its annual Singles Day event. About 12 hours into the event, sales had reached 82.4bn yuan ($12.1bn; £10bn), the firm said. Last year's record was $14.3bn. But some have...
A man who compared the Donald Trump campaign to Adolf Hitler's in the 1930s says he is glad to have started "one of the more civilised discussions" on the US presidential debate. The tweeter, who says his name is Johan Franklin, po...
Apple has unveiled the details of the new MacBook Pro, which the company is calling the "thinnest and lightest" design for the laptop ever. The feature on the new MacBook Pro that's generating the most buzz is an interfac...
Kanye West said he's boycotting the Grammy Awards next year because Frank Ocean's latest projects, "Blonde" and "Endless," are not eligible for consideration this year. Ocean's label, for reasons not made clear,...
Holiday gift giving is always a nightmare. What do you get your sister-in-law? The neighbors? After all, they did let their dog run around your yard all year. Well, Neiman Marcus has a solution for you: Today it published the90th ...
Republican Donald Trump has refused to commit to accepting the election result if he loses, in the final TV debate against Hillary Clinton. "I will tell you at the time," he told moderator Chris Wallace. For days he has claimed the...
More senior Republicans have withdrawn support for US presidential candidate Donald Trump after his obscene remarks about women became public. At least a dozen Republicans have said they will not be voting for him, since the comments emerged...
One woman has died, and 108 other people were injured after a New Jersey Transit commuter train crashed into Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, around 8:45 a.m. today. Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the cras...
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Charmian Carr, the actress best known for sweetly portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," has died. She was 73. Carr died Saturday of complications from a rare form of dementia ...
Some London commuters came across an unexpected herd of cats -- the two-dimensional kind -- when they set off to work on Monday morning. South London's Clapham Common tube station's ads were replaced with 68 different portraits of cats as p...
Or at least a brutal challenge. Not just because it’s increasingly difficult to think of new features, but also because the phone makers have pretty much run out of room for new components inside. That, says Apple, is why it removed the headph...
The heels came off but the crown stayed on as Miss America began her reign with a romp in the Atlantic City surf Monday, hours after winning the title. Savvy Shields, who represented Arkansas, won the crown Sunday night to become Miss Americ...
Great Britain's Iconic Phone Booth Becomes Full-Service Coffee Shop...
Boasting the largest economy in the world, the U.S. provides global organizations access to both a robust customer base as well as the skilled talent necessary to fulfill a company’s business requirements. Multinational companies may fi...
Fans came out to Madison Square Garden on Sunday night expecting to see the MTV VMAs. Instead, they got an epic Beyonce concert. The Queen Bey shut it down as she performed more than five songs over 15 minutes that left the audience standin...