Faced with its most severe financial crisis since the 1970s, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans on Thursday to drastically

The mastermind of the Fox News Channel has renewed his contract with the News Corporation, the company announced Thursday.

Study after study has failed to show that regular vitamin use prevents heart disease and cancer.

Mike Mussina, who turns 40 next month, is leaving after his first season of 20 victories.

Oil dropped briefly below $50 a barrel for the first time in 22 months, shedding close to $100 in four months in an ailing global economy.

AP - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader said Thursday that he and President Robert Mugabe need to form a government within two months in order to stave off a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.

AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used a meeting of his powerful political party to take center stage Thursday, casting himself as an indispensable leader even as the global financial meltdown threatens the achievements of his boom-time presidency.

AP - A Manhattan jury has convicted a wealthy arms dealer of conspiring to sell weapons to informants who supposedly were supplying terrorists willing to kill Americans.

AP - Pakistan fired on militants who attacked a NATO outpost on the Afghan border, the alliance said Thursday, an example of the cooperation seen as vital against the rising power of the Taliban and al-Qaida.

AP - Rebels in Congo pulled hundreds of fighters back from several front-line positions as promised on Wednesday in what the U.N. said was a welcome step toward brokering peace in the volatile nation.