US-based Bank of America paid about Rs 1.4 crore as director compensation during 2011 to Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani who had joined the board of the global banking giant last year.

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A reporter's job figures among the ten worst professions, alongside the likes of butchers, waiters and dishwashers, as per a new study by the US-based consultancy CareerCast which has named a software

"Mike Wallace is here to see you."

The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist's reputation as a pitiless inquisitor was so fearsome that it was often said that those were the most dreaded words in the English langu

A US judge on Thursday sentenced Russian 'merchant of death' arms smuggler Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison for conspiring to sell a massive arsenal to anti-American guerrillas in Colombia.

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US law enforcement officials are investigating an image posted online that shows the city's Manhattan skyline at sunset with a warning in the foreground that terror outfit al Qaeda plans to return to

The new World Trade Center has reached a milestone: The skyscraper being built to replace the terror-wrecked twin towers is now 100 stories high - on its way to becoming New York's tallest building.

The tumult within billionaire investor George Soros' firm continues as one of his sons is separating some of his personal fortune to manage it himself.

World stock markets advanced on Friday, posting double-digit gains for the quarter, as economic reports showing U.S. consumer spending and sentiment still on the rise helped buoy stock prices and unde

The record $640 million lottery prize that sent the United States into a gambling frenzy reportedly had at least one winner early on Saturday as local media said the winning ticket had been sold in th

In one of the most detailed accounts of Osama bin Laden's life on the run, his youngest wife has told Pakistani investigators that the Al-Qaeda leader lived in five safe houses as he travelled across