The US vice president, Dick Cheney, has had an electric shock administered to his heart to restore a normal rhythm. Cheney - who has a long history of cardiac problems - spent more than two hours at a Washington hospital before being sent home last ...

11/27/2007 3:53:34 PM

By Ladane Nasseri Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Iran said it constructed a missile capable of traveling 2000 kilometers (1243 miles), a range that takes in Israel's major cities and US bases in the Middle East.

11/27/2007 3:53:34 PM

By NICOLA CLARK and DAVID LAGUE The aircraft maker Airbus and the French nuclear company Areva were among half a dozen companies to sign roughly $30 billion in contracts yesterday with Chinese partners.

11/27/2007 3:53:34 PM

AP VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France -- Rampaging youths rioted overnight in the suburbs of Paris, hurling Molotov cocktails and setting fire to dozens of cars.

11/27/2007 3:53:34 PM

By Arshad Mohammed and Sue Pleming ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) - President George W. Bush opens a high-stakes Israeli-Palestinian peace conference on Tuesday, trying to achieve in his final 14 months in office a goal that has eluded US leaders for ...

11/27/2007 3:53:34 PM

by Natalie Finn She'll always be one of the great posers, but Twiggy's days of sitting in judgment are over. Due to scheduling conflicts, the 1960s-era supermodel will be vacating her America's Next Top Model post next year, the CW announced Monday.

11/27/2007 3:53:34 PM

After years of struggling in supporting roles, the actress has landed at the top of the box office as Princess Giselle. By Larry Carroll, with additional reporting by Shawn Adler Once upon a time, in early 2002, a struggling young redheaded actress who ...

11/27/2007 3:52:45 PM

Earlier this month, he was caught canoodling with Hamptons neighbor and fellow multimillionaire Nancy Shevell. Now, News of the World is reporting that Rosanna Arquette just flew to England for a couple of dates with the single dad.

11/27/2007 3:52:00 PM

Britney Spears will get to spend Christmas morning with her sons, a judge ruled Monday. A holiday visitation schedule was hammered out between the pop tart and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, in a closed-door court hearing in Los Angeles.

11/27/2007 3:50:47 PM

Yesterday, cops revealed that the gown and makeup of the new Miss Puerto Rico, Ingrid Marie Rivera, had been coated with pepper spray during Friday's final competition, giving her hives and forcing her to ice her swollen skin between rounds.

11/27/2007 3:49:26 PM

By John Borland November 26, 2007 | 7:50:44 amcategories: Space It's very clear that this is intended to be a (photographic) shot heard round the world.

11/27/2007 4:01:42 PM

As if the Microsoft vs. Google battle didn't already resemble a game of Risk, the software giant announced plans to move into Irkutsk.

11/27/2007 4:01:02 PM

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to release next year, runs Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite 10% faster than XP SP2, a performance testing software developer reported Friday.

11/27/2007 4:00:09 PM

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A promotion in which a customer buying a $188 computer in the US and Canada automatically donates a second one to a child in a developing country was extended until year's end, organizers said Thursday.

11/27/2007 3:58:40 PM

Carbon dioxide emissions from UK homes could be cut by up to 80% by 2050, a report by Oxford University suggests.

11/27/2007 3:55:30 PM

Red blood cell transfusions given to heart surgery patients could increase their risk of heart attack or stroke, research suggests.

11/27/2007 3:44:09 PM

The Medicare Rights Center filed suit in New York federal district court today, asking a judge to declare unlawful the Bush Administration’s refusal to allow Medicare coverage of a broad range of “off-label” drugs.

11/27/2007 3:42:39 PM

According to a recently released report Washington, DC has the highest rate of AIDS in the United States. The report also reveals that more babies are born with the AIDS virus in Washington than in other US cities.

11/27/2007 3:41:31 PM

Women living and working in the city have a higher risk of breast cancer, researchers say. The study of 972 women by London's private Princess Grace Hospital found city women had much denser breasts.

11/27/2007 3:40:16 PM

By ANDREW POLLACK If stem cell researchers were oil prospectors, it could be said that they struck a gusher last week. But to realize the potential boundless riches they now must figure out how to build refineries, pipelines and gas stations.

11/27/2007 3:39:09 PM

By Will mcsheehy and Hiroshi Suzuki Bloomberg News DUBAI: Dubai International Capital, the $13 billion fund manager whose investors include the emirate's ruler, bought shares in Sony in its first investment in a Japanese company.

11/27/2007 4:06:36 PM

By Emmet Oliver and Paul Tobin Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA, Spain's biggest airline, fell the most in three months in Madrid trading after British Airways Plc and US buyout firm TPG Inc. abandoned a plan to buy the carrier.

11/27/2007 4:05:39 PM

By Eric Dash and Andrew Ross Sorkin Citigroup has announced that it will sell a $7.5-billion stake to a Middle Eastern sovereign fund in the latest bid to shore up its precariously low capital base.

11/27/2007 4:04:37 PM

by Catherine Holahan Two years ago, a group of savvy marketers deemed the first workday after Thanksgiving the biggest online shopping day of the year.

11/27/2007 4:03:53 PM

By Susan Gilmore The passenger-only ferry Snohomish, a replacement for the four car ferries that are out of service, leaves Keystone Harbor on Monday

11/27/2007 4:03:04 PM