India has already eclipsed China as Iran’s No. 1 petroleum customer, subverting efforts by the United States to persuade other countries to find non-Iranian sources ... more

Greece reaches a deal on austerity measures.

AP - The superstar Spanish judge who won global fame for aggressively taking on international human rights cases was convicted Thursday of overstepping his jurisdiction ... more

Thomas J. Lewis, who has been president of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals since 1990, is retiring June 30, the organization's board announced Thursday.

ContributorNetwork - According to the Associated Press, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Illinois would receive about $1 billion in a settlement involving five of ... more

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada announced a recall of more than 1 million Tassimo Single-Cup Brewers after more than 100 reports of the brewers spraying ... more

AP - FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the ... more

Those cooler-than-normal tropical Pacific ocean temperatures known as La Niña are expected to weaken and dissipate this spring, government forecasters said today. La Niña—or lack ... more

AP - A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creators of the ... more

Mike Davies, the chief executive officer of the New Haven Open tennis tournament, has been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Jeremy Lin's sudden rise from obscure reserve to the toast of Broadway could not have come at a better time for the New York Knicks.

Chilean tennis star Fernando Gonzalez says he will retire next month because injuries no longer allow him to play at a top level.

Scenes from the first day of New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center.

Effective immediately, all ships will conduct muster drills prior to departing from port, it was announced today.

Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, two dancers with the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, also happen to dance with American Ballet Theater.

Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 22 cents ... more

Reuters - Three Indian politicians from a morally conservative party, including a women's affairs minister, resigned on Wednesday after being caught watching pornography on a ... more

Reuters - Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected ... more

The “us vs. them” mentality displayed in politics nowadays does nothing to help get the economy back in shape. Susan Del Percio, Jimmy Williams and ... more

Daily Beast contributor Mark McKinnon and Elliot Ackerman of Americans Elect 2012 join MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan in Austin, Texas to discuss the ways in which ... more

omg! - The former ER star and photographer James Stenson married in 2009

Reuters - A low-key, long term approach to teen weight loss produced modest benefits in a clinical trial, Australian researchers report, though a version of ... more

The Christian Science Monitor - For 10 states, the chance to get No Child Left Behind off their backs has finally arrived, with President Obama ... more

Reuters - The top Republican in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday denounced President Barack Obama's new rule on contraceptives as an assault on "religious freedom" ... more