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Facebook wants to get more of the world’s more than 7 billion people – all of them, actually – online through a partnership with some of the world’s largest mobile technology companies.

Facebook Inc. announced a partnership called Internet.org on Wednesday. In addition to the world’s biggest online ...

An Egyptian court ordered Wednesday the release of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, but it is not yet clear if the ailing ex-leader will walk free after over two years in detention, officials said.

Prosecutors may appeal the order, which comes following a hearing on charges against Mubarak of accepting gifts ...

Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying more than 500 people died and laying bare the extent of the violence that swept much of the country.

Despite the government’s declaration of a nighttime ...

The Justice Department and a number of U.S. state attorneys general are challenging the proposed $11 billion merger between US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines’ parent company, AMR Corp.

The Justice Department says the merger would result in the creation of the world’s largest airline. The government says a ...

James “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant. (Read the full verdict here)

Bulger, ...

An Egyptian security official says authorities have postponed a move to disperse two sit-ins by supporters of the country’s ousted president to “avoid bloodshed.”

The official says the decision to postpone an advance against the protest camps by Muslim Brotherhood supporters came after a plan on ending the sit-ins was ...

In a rare diplomatic rebuke today, President Barack Obama canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The decision reflected both U.S. anger over Russia’s harboring of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and growing frustration within the Obama administration over what it sees as Moscow’s stubbornness on other ...

New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner has released a new campaign video saying he won't quit the race.

US Army Pfc Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy for giving classified secrets to WikiLeaks.

Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning has been acquitted of the most serious charge against him — aiding the enemy — a charge that carried a potential life sentence. But he still faces up to 136 years in prison at a sentencing hearing that begins tomorrow.

The judge at ...

Anthony Weiner acknowledged Sunday that his campaign manager has quit after new revelations of lewd online behavior but said he is not dropping out of the race for New York City mayor.

Veteran tenor turned baritone Placido Domingo says he has left a hospital in Madrid after spending five days there recovering from a lung artery blockage.

Opera singer Placido Domingo says he expects his health to improve soon, after he was admitted to a Madrid hospital with a blockage in an artery of the lungs.

Egypt’s military has suspended the Islamist-backed constitution and called early elections.

The military also announced that embattled President Mohammed Morsi will be replaced.

Cheers erupted among millions of protesters nationwide who were demanding Morsi’s ouster.

The military earlier today moved to tighten its control of key institutions. It did so ...

The famed piano maker Steinway is being acquired by private equity firm Kohlberg & Co. for about $438 million.

A charter helicopter carrying a family of four Swedes on a sightseeing tour of New York City lost power shortly after takeoff Sunday and made an emergency landing on the Hudson River, authorities said. The pilot and occupants were uninjured.

New York City officials said Friday they will investigate the error that lead to a delay in responding to a car crash where a 4-year-old girl was crushed.

Senator Frank Lautenberg, a multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and liberal who was called out of retirement for a second tour of duty in Congress, has died at age 89 from complications of viral pneumonia.

Two of the world's biggest sports brands are teaming up to bring a new Major League Soccer team to New York.

Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, with about 60 people taken to the hospital, authorities said. There were no reports of fatalities.