Coca-Cola offered investors some good news and some bad news on Tuesday: The Atlanta soda giant's profit dropped 17 percent in 2014, but that figure still beat expectations thanks to improved sales numbers in North America, the company's biggest market.
Brian Williams is facing additional questions as residents of his New Jersey hometown doubt the embattled anchor's claim that he was robbed in the late 1970s while selling Christmas trees from the back of a truck.
Nevada teaching licenses may soon be available to immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children. AB27, which is pending before the Silver State's Legislature, would allow so-called DREAMers to get a teaching license if a district has a teacher shortage of any kind.
Trivia Crack, the highly addictive smartphone game that for weeks has topped free-download charts in the United States, is now also taking Europe by storm. The application is now the top trivia game in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.
A former Taliban commander who recently defected from the fundamentalist movement to join the ISIS terror group has been killed in southern Afghanistan.
Verizon Wireless's use of so-called supercookies is coming under scrutiny, and Democratic senators on Friday called on federal regulators to investigate the unique tracking codes.
For the first time in nine months, drivers across the United States saw the cost of fuel rise over the past two weeks, a Lundberg survey released Sunday showed. A gallon of regular-grade gasoline on average cost $2.20 across the nation.
The United States is "on the road" to defeating ISIS, the Islamist terror organization feared for its brutality, Secretary of State told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
Sunday night's Grammy Awards featured plenty of photo-worthy moments, but celebrity watchers appeared especially fond of a snapshot showing Blue Ivy Carter, Jay-Z and Beyoncé's daughter, with Rihanna, the three-year-old's godmother.
Police say a Pennsylvania teenager fatally shot a 16-year-old classmate in the face and then published a selfie with the body on a smartphone photo application. Maxwell Marion Morton, 16, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder, homicide and possession of a firearm by a minor.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday tried to dissuade President Barack Obama from arming Ukraine in its conflict against Russian-backed separatists. The German head of government is visiting the White House following last week's top-level diplomatic efforts, in which she and French President François Hollande tried to mediate between Kiev and Moscow.
A stampede at a Cairo soccer stadium on Sunday ended in the deaths of at least 19 people. Egyptian security forces had used tear gas to curtail fans who were trying to force their way into a league match, and most of the dead were suffocated in the ensuing panic.
English singer Sam Smith was among the biggest winners at Sunday night's Grammys, taking home three of the top four awards. "Morning Phase," American musician Beck's twelfth studio compilation, snatched up the golden gramophone for album of the year.
Brian Williams, the anchor of NBC's flagship "Nightly News," continued to take flak on Friday, this time over his account of the network's Hurricane Katrina coverage. The New Orleans Advocate is now scrutinizing Williams' comments about the aftermath of the storm, which hit the Louisiana city in 2005.
Spanking children to discipline them is acceptable as long as their dignity is maintained, Pope Francis - the leader of the world's more than 1.2 billion Catholics - said this week. The pontiff encouraged parents to forgive but also "correct with firmness."
Vladimir Putin may plan to meddle in the Baltic states to "restore Russia to its former position as a great power," former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has warned.
Chinese authorities on Friday openly displayed their anger over President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama. Obama called the Tibetan spiritual leader "a good friend" after the Thursday encounter at a Washington prayer meeting.
American actress Jennifer Lawrence is set to wow Vanity Fair readers with "striking images" that feature her naked body along with a giant red-tailed boa constrictor. Lawrence posed for the photos at a residence in the Hollywood Hills and only briefly became "uncomfortable when the snake took a fancy to her neck."
An upgrade to New York's 911 emergency communications system is 10 years behind schedule and almost $900 million over budget, the city's official watchdog organization has determined. The Department of Investigation found that the administration of Michael Bloomberg for years mismanaged the overhaul.
The University of South Carolina's busy downtown Columbia campus was the scene of an apparent murder-suicide on Thursday, and two individuals were reported dead.
The efforts of a South Carolina mayor trying to alter a war memorial, which separates fallen soldiers into "white" and "colored" veterans, have been stifled by a state law that prohibits changes to historical markers without legislative approval.
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Benjamin Netanyahu has no plans to cancel a planned March 3 speech before a joint session of Congress, which has ruffled feathers in the United States weeks before the Israeli prime minister's arrival.
Bishops around the globe must fully cooperate with a Vatican commission created to protect children from sexual abuse by clerics, Pope Francis demanded in a letter dated Feb. 2.
