Same-sex couples eager to marry in New York hit a bureaucratic snag when marriage license applications made available to them for the first time on Tuesday still used the terms "bride" and
If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could
Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center began ticking on Tuesday toward the final flight in the 30-year-old U.S. space shuttle program, a cargo run to the International Space Station. Liftoff of
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has not told President Barack Obama he would like to leave after a debt ceiling deal is reached, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday. Sources familiar
A bare-headed motorcyclist riding in protest of New York state's helmet law crashed, struck his head on the roadway and died from his injuries, state police said on Sunday. Philip Contos, 55,
A Mexican prisoner hoped to take a trip to freedom by packing himself into his girlfriend's suitcase. But guards at the jail in the southeastern town of Chetumal grew suspicious when the
Greek banks will support the government's drive to pull the country out of its debt crisis, the head of the Greek bank association said on Wednesday. "We will support the state in
Shares of banks in peripheral euro zone countries fell on Wednesday on fears the region's debt crisis could spread after ratings agency Moody's downgraded Portugal's credit standing to "junk" and said Lisbon
Bulgaria's banking system is strong and well capitalised, central bank head Ivan Iskrov said on Wednesday, seeking to ease concerns about the Balkan country's exposure to Greece. Greek banks account for 28%
. * First GSM call on July 1, 1991 marked start of a new era in global digital communications On July 1, 1991, the world’s first GSM call on a commercial network
