Police released two women arrested as part of the terror probe into the killing of a 25-year-old soldier in London as searches continued at six homes across England.

The collapse of a U.S. interstate highway bridge north of Seattle highlights the deteriorating state of the country's infrastructure, even following $48.1 billion in economic stimulus funds and a 2007 fatal bridge failure in Minnesota.

Google Inc., maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.

KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Management LLC have made separate bids for Hulu LLC, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Roaches that have been hard to exterminate may be a variety that have decided sugar doesn't taste quite so sweet as bait anymore, researchers found.

Four senior executives at Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors LP received subpoenas as part of the U.S. multiyear probe into insider trading at the hedge fund firm, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

Gold traders are the most bullish in a month after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled record stimulus will continue until the economy improves.

An iPhone application that lets users check levels of blood, protein and other substances in their urine is the first target of U.S. regulators seeking boundaries in a burgeoning industry for medical diagnosis on-the-go.

Two Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets have been scrambled to divert a passenger aircraft bound for Manchester International Airport in the north of England, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said.

President Barack Obama said the broad war powers Congress approved to fight al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks shouldn't continue forever and that he's reining in drone strikes and paving the way to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Google Inc. is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display- advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said.

Gary Delgado learned last week from a note slipped under his door that the rent for his two-bedroom apartment at Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town will jump by $920 to $4,220 a month in July. Unable to move immediately, he says he'll stick it out for anoth...

President Barack Obama will give the U.S. military a bigger role in using drone strikes to kill terrorists and lift a moratorium on transferring prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to other countries as part of a larger package of adjustments to his c...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. linked bonuses and promotions to employees' success in protecting the firm's reputation and put new restrictions on some client transactions to avoid a repeat of the damage to its standing in the wake of the financial crisis.

When Gregory Glinsey was fatally shot while buying ice for his mother's 80th birthday party, the emotional toll on his family was incalculable. The immediate price to the public was $800 for his autopsy.

Ela Darling quit her job as a reference librarian south of Boston three years ago for a fresh start in Los Angeles starring in such movies as "Lesbian Slumber Party." Her new career, she says, is under threat from the California legislature, which so...

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook provided a figure to Congress on Tuesday that U.S. companies rarely disclose: its federal tax bill. Apple paid $6 billion last year -- a rate of 30.5 percent.

Fewer Americans than projected filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the job market is sustaining recent gains.