Stocks rose more than 1 per cent on Tuesday after the previous session's nosedive, but markets could reverse if investors are not convinced the Federal Reserve has a plan to combat the meltdown linked

Wall Street stocks tumbled at the open on Monday after rating agency Standard & Poor's cut the top-tier AAA credit rating of the United States, rattling already-jittery investors.

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Mark Twain jokingly recommended crime as a way of learning morals, so the great American writer might not have been shocked at the woman who on Friday admitted to stealing $1 million from his museum-home. Donna Gregor, 58, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport, Connecticut to wire fraud and filing a false tax return as part of schemes to embezzle the Mark Twain House and Museum, federal prosecutors said.

The top official behind Standard & Poor's historic decision on Friday to downgrade the United States' prized triple-A credit rating said it was his company's duty to make such a hard and controversia

Investors fled Wall Street in the worst stock-market selloff since the middle of the financial crisis in early 2009 in what has turned into a full-fledged correction.

The Dow and the S&P tumbled more

US stocks seesawed, trading little changed on Friday as a better-than-expected payrolls report did little to alleviate fears of a double-dip recession.

US job growth accelerated more than expected in

A federal grand jury in the US has indicted 26 people, including 19 Indians, for their participation in a multi-million dollar healthcare fraud and drug distribution scheme to facilitate the submission of false claims to private insurers. The indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Detroit charged 26 individuals, United States

Supermodel Linda Evangelista has taken Salma Hayek’s billionaire husband François-Henri Pinault to court demanding $46,000 support a month for their lovechild.

Marvel Comics revealed on Tuesday that the heir to the Spider-Man costume following the death of Peter Parker will be Miles Morales, a teenager of half-Hispanic and half-black origin who will protect New York from the bad guys starting Wednesday, when Ultimate Comics Fallout #4 hits the magazine racks. “When the opportunity

Global stocks tumbled into the red for the year while safe-haven assets rallied on Tuesday as fear of a downgrade of the US credit rating and rising yields in Europe stoked worries of higher borrowing