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 - Appealing for broader access to fast-growing markets in Asia, President Barack Obama says the United States is in the Pacific region to stay and that both sides will benefit from stronger trade relationships.
AP - Leaders of the world's three biggest economies — the U.S., China and Japan — all pledged Saturday to push for free trade, apparently putting aside acrimony over currencies that threatens to revive pressure to raise trade barriers.
AP - The Obama administration is offering to add billions of dollars in funding for the U.S. nuclear stockpile in a deal that it hopes will win enough Republican support for approval of a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia.
Dissident leaders inside and outside Burma tell ABC News Aung Sang Suu Kyi's release from house arrest is imminent. Tonight, police were seen delivering papers to her home, which some speculated was her release permission.
More than 200 of her supporters gathered outside her home, in anticipation of her release. Later, they were told to go home, with the release now expected tomorrow at the earliest.
Corruption, natural disasters like an earthquake and the outbreak of a cholera epidemic leave Haiti's capital Port au Prince in destruction in the eyes fo foreigners, but for Haitians, life continues.
Hundreds gathered near the National League for Democracy headquarters in Myanmar for a second day on Saturday as they awaited the release of activist Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
According to FBI affidavits, Prince Georges County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife Leslie tried to flush a $100,000 check for an alleged kickback down the toilet. Leslie Johnson also allegedly stuffed nearly $80,000 in her bra as agents knocked at the door.
Nearing the end of his 10-day trip to Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama met with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard during a bilateral event in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday.
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