The chances of another interest rate cut by the European Central Bank increased Friday after some of the bank’s governors said borrowing costs may have to fall...

Citigroup Inc. shares extended their precipitous slide Friday, after an initial lift from a report that said the banking giant was considering a sale to rebuild...

Agriculture futures mostly fell in midday trading Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

European culture went digital _ but it only lasted a day.

Fire investigators say they have found no sign of arson in a blaze that killed 27 horses at a thoroughbred training facility in western Kentucky.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s plane made an emergency landing in Japan on Friday after her husband fell ill on board, airport police said.

British actress Sienna Miller has won 53,000 pounds ($79,000) from a photo agency she was suing on grounds of harassment.

Nine days after announcing new overseas routes for 2009, Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s biggest carrier, said in a regulatory filing Friday it plans to reduce...

FBI officials said Friday they arrested a man who allegedly threatened to blow up the Cincinnati Bengals’ stadium and other area landmarks.

Authorities say a South Florida teen committed suicide in front of a live online webcam audience after blogging about his plan to kill himself.

A white teenager has received four life sentences for a shooting spree that killed four blacks and wounded eight, re-igniting racial tensions in post-apartheid South...

FBI agents arrested a Boston city council member Friday after he was allegedly videotaped taking a $1,000 bribe from an undercover agent in an expanding investigation...

The National Museum of American History has reopened after a two-year, $85 million renovation.

Officials say Mexico’s former drug czar took $450,000 to leak information to a powerful cartel.

Wall Street took a break from two days of steep selling to show a moderate advance Friday as energy, technology and financial stocks mostly rose.

Ukraine’s president on Friday accused the prime minister of saddling the country with a huge debt to Russia and said her government must urgently repay $2.4...

General Motors Corp. will extend its holiday shutdown or make other production cuts at up to 10 factories as it deals with a continued U.S. auto sales slump and fights...

President-elect Barack Obama has made an appeal for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympics.

Brazil is calling its ambassador to Ecuador back home for consultations after Ecuador said it does not want to pay the debt it owes to a Brazilian bank.

Foodmaker H.J. Heinz Co. said Friday that strong sales of products such as Ore-Ida frozen potatoes and frozen meals boosted fiscal second-quarter profit by 22 percent...