Setting a fixed timetable for getting U.S. troops out of Iraq would be a dangerous move according to America's top military officer.

On Sunday NBC Universal and two partners said that they had reached a deal with Landmark Communications inc. to buy the Weather Channel.

On Sunday Sen. John McCain's campaign said that Barack Obama's remarks on Iraq left a significant question as to what Obama intends to do.

Defending champ Joey Chestnut, from the U.S., won the annual Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest on Friday by eating 64 weiners.

On Thursday the state department denied charges by a house committee that it inappropriately encouraged a Texas-based oil company to strike an exploration deal with the Kurdish government in Iraq.

On Wednesday Iran warned of a fierce response and radically higher oil prices if they were attacked but than again the country also signaled possible progress in its five-year nuclear standoff with the west.

On Wednesday Colombia announced that it had rescued 15 captives held by the FARC rebel group. Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential candidate, and three American military contractors were among those who were rescued.

Yesterday two civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government and they are seeking records related to the government's use of cellphones as tracking devices.

The Archdiocese of Denver announced on Tuesday that it is going to pay $5.5 million to settle more than a dozen lawsuits over sexual abuse by priests.

Chakib Khelil is the president of OPEC and he has predicted that the price of oil will climb to $170 a barrel before the end of the year because of the dollar's decline and political conflicts.

It seems that rapper DMX is always getting into trouble. He was arrested after he allegedly tried to buy drugs from an undercover cop.

A Chinese airliner was cancelled due to bad weather but the fifty-two passengers aboard did not like that and they actually refused to disembark and spent the night on-board before finally leaving to their destination.

You might have heard of Helio at one point or another. Helio was an uber-hip wireless reseller and now the company has crash-landed. Rival Virgin Mobile USA scooped it up on Friday in a stock transaction valued at $39 million.

The city of Liverpool is living in fear because of reported UFO sightings and residents are afraid that the city is on the brink of facing an alien invasion.

Last week Typhoon Fengshen struck the Philippines and now the death tolls could go as high as 1,300 if the missing passengers and crew of a capsized ferry are included.

A police chief in Kandahar, Afghanistan has been fired for negligence related to a massive jailbreak earlier this month.

On Tuesday police officials fired 17 police officers in connection with a botched raid on a bar that triggered a stampede. The incident left a dozen people dead.

A "dry lightning" storm hit Northern California and unleashed over 7,000 lightning strikes and set more than 800 wildfires all in a day.

On Thursday an actor that was shot in the head and partly paralyzed when live ammunition was mistakenly used during a theme park's staged gun fight has filed a lawsuit against the park, charging their negligence and recklessness led to his injuries.

A judge in Niagara Falls City ordered 46 people to jail back in 2005 after no one admitted to owning a ringing cellphone has been removed from the bench after the state Commission on Judicial Conduct reviewed the incident.