$1 million supercar crash: actor Rowan Atkinson, who played Mr. Bean and Blackadder, crashed his McLaren F1 $1 million supercar but walked away from the accident and will face no criminal charges.
Obama, Bernanke, and Geithner meet as investors worry that political leaders – in the United States and Europe – and central banks can't do much more to support a weak economy.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Thursday as concerns mounted over the worsening debt crisis in Europe and a slackening global economy.
AP - International forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend, but they are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday's mission, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
AP - Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia — turning the patients' own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells.
Three siblings wanted in an armed bank robbery in Georgia were captured Wednesday after a high-speed chase in Colorado. It began after they opened fire on an officer who pulled them over, police said.
The U.S. moves toward explicitly calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave office, sources say, after months of a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests.
Jurors in northeastern Ohio have reached a sentencing recommendation in the case of convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, the county court administrator told CNN.
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