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Pfizer Inc.'s $68 billion purchase of Wyeth will close Thursday after antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Canada cleared the deal, which will make Pfizer the world's largest drugmaker by revenue.

The special federal paymaster is trying to persuade the American International Group, the insurance giant, to reduce a coming bonus payment of $198 million, but is running into legal hurdles despite rules curtailing bonuses at companies receiving assistance from the Treasury.

Researchers have long known that when it comes to baby names, what's "in" keeps getting more popular. But new research by psychologists ...

Americans headed to South Africa next year after holding on for 3-2 victory.

The United Kingdom has overtaken the United States to take the top spot in a ranking of the world's leading financial centres.

Iran would "blow up the heart" of Israel if it was attacked by the Jewish state or the United States, a Revolutionary Guards official was quoted Friday as saying.

The suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Thursday lays bare the reality that this conflict is a single war with multiple fronts that extend from Afghan battlefields to Pakistan's fractured political scene and include the vital interests of India and the United States.

Justice Department researchers said Wednesday that most children in the United States are exposed to violence in their daily ...

North Korea said on Tuesday it was ready to return to international talks on ending its nuclear weapons program, but demanded negotiations first with the United States.

Court records show Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit 15 years after he fled the United States.