PepsiCo lining up potential successors to Nooyi
PepsiCo may be lining up a potential successor to CEO Indra Nooyi, naming a former executive to head its biggest moneymaking unit on Monday and also naming an insider as its president.
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Woman gives birth to son weighing nearly 14 pounds
A Southern California woman says doctors predicted she would give birth to a big baby boy, but nobody was prepared for just how big.
Jayden Sigler weighed in at 13 pounds, 14 ounces, when the healthy
Syrian opposition rejects talks with regime
A high-profile international mission to end the Syrian crisis stumbled on Friday before it began as the opposition rejected calls by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan for dialogue with President Bashar Assad as p
Diplomacy with North Korea won't hurt South ties, says US
The United States said on Friday it won't let the recent progress in its nuclear diplomacy with North Korea affect its close relations with key ally South Korea.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Brack Obama: 'America is coming back'
Raising campaign cash in Republican territory, President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a rebounding economy and accused Republicans of banking on voters having ‘amnesia’ about the steps that led to a
Afghanistan joins railroad era, 100 years late
More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an Afghan king made a radica
Facebook 'friend' offer exposes man's other wife
A corrections officer is facing bigamy charges after authorities said a Washington woman using Facebook discovered that she and a potential 'friend' were married to him at the same time.
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Russia to critics: We're not protecting Syria
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says his government is not "protecting any regimes," speaking to Arab leaders angry over Moscow's blocking of international pressure on Syria's president to step
Pakistan's top court targets army
Pakistan's powerful military establishment is under rare scrutiny from the country's top court, which after a gap of 16 years has opened an investigation into allegations the army funneled money to po
Mass dolphin rescue witnessed off Rio coast
A dramatic video showing 30 beached dolphins being rescued by beachgoers in Brazil has become an internet sensation.
The video shows dolphins appearing out of nowhere and suddenly beaching en masse o