WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low level Tuesday and made no changes to the key "extended period" policy pledge, a signal that it believes the economy still needs ...

BEIJING - The World Bank raised its China growth forecast this year to 9.5 percent from 9 percent on Wednesday but said Beijing needs to cool inflation and possible bubbles in real estate prices.

TOKYO - In a bid to shore up a deflation-plagued economy, Japan's central bank eased monetary policy further on Wednesday by boosting a bank-loan program, setting the world's second-largest economy on a divergent path from other ...

DUBLIN - Much of the world is turning green Wednesday for St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all hues of Irishness. Half a million people were forecast to line the 3-kilometer (2-mile) route of the flagship Dublin parade, which is exploring ...

John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter said that she thought the photo spread in GQ would include headshots and not just sexy, body-baring photos.

Michelle Obama on Tuesday called on corporate food giants such as Coca-Cola, General Mills and Kraft Foods to step up efforts to produce more healthful food and then market that, rather than junk food, to children.

The frenzy over health care reform in Congress took to the streets of metro Detroit on Tuesday with opponents of the bill holding boisterous rallies.

For the third cruise in a row, some of the passengers aboard Celebrity Mercury have fallen ill, apparently with the norovirus. Kenneth Thompson from Concord, NC, center, with cane, and his wife Kaylene, behind Kenneth at.