As American investors and foreign central banks flock to safe investments like Treasury bills, poorer countries are having a harder time raising money.
While lifting restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research, President Obama is avoiding the question of whether tax dollars should be used to experiment on embryos themselves.
AP - A pastor shot and killed during his Sunday sermon deflected the first of the gunman's four rounds with a Bible, sending a confetti-like spray of paper into the air in a horrifying scene that congregants initially thought was a skit, police said.
AP - About 12,000 U.S. soldiers will leave Iraq by September, officials said Sunday, hours after a Baghdad suicide bomber killed about 30 people in a chilling reminder of the nation's still-shaky security.
Victor Guevares rented apartments and saved money for 12 years, hoping eventually to buy a home for his family. Now, the foreclosure market might make the New York man's dream come true.
A former official of a cabinet company that has laid off employees has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling $9.9 million from the company over seven years.
The pastor of a Maryville, Illinois, church was shot to death in front of horrified parishioners today, state police said. The gunman's .45-caliber pistol jammed after he fired four shots, hitting a Bible and fatally shooting Fred Winters, police said. The man then pulled out a knife and was tackled by "heroic" members of the congregation, police said.