CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Grain futures closed mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday as Wall Street equities spent the entire day in ... more

Adolf Hitler was "the German Mussolini" who was "a very cunning demagogue" according to a handwritten report from a French spy in 1924.

A Las Vegas gambler who lost 112 million £67 million in a year is suing the owner of Caesars Palace claiming casino staff "milked" him ... more

D.R. Horton's loss widens; Ann Taylor cuts prices.

Dutch premium car maker Spyker said it was moving production to the UK prompted by the weak value of the pound against the euro.

AP - Shares of department store retailer Dillard's Inc. rose on Friday after an analyst upgraded the stock to "Buy" and said efforts to cut ... more

AFP - Thousands of French Internet users flooded video sharing websites Friday to enjoy a lampoon of their glamourous first couple, almost a week after ... more

Macworld.com - On Friday, Cloud Engines introduced the second generation of its Pogoplug multimedia sharing device. The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home ... more

PC World - Sales of plasma HDTVs have been on the decline for some time now. Although plasmas are generally cheaper than comparably-sized LCD models, ... more

Gani Lawal had 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead No. 21 Georgia Tech to a 70-62 victory over George Mason on Friday in the ... more

Jeanne-Claude collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, including “The Gates” in Central Park in 2005.

Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.

Jesus Lizard’s show on Tuesday at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza was extravagantly good.

A town on New York's Long Island is hoping for better attendance at its 16th annual holiday boat parade this year by restoring "Christmas" to ... more

Operators of a Catholic shrine in Maryland thought they had been blessed with a big donation this month when a worker found $40,000 worth of ... more

A tortoise's zookeepers in Cleveland are the ones feeling slow because after more than 50 years, they've discovered "Mary" is actually a male.

AP - An eastern Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew ... more

Reuters - Popular talk show host Oprah Winfrey will end her television program at the end of its 25th season in September 2011, her production ... more

AP - The Miss California USA pageant director who became embroiled in a war of words with former title holder Carrie Prejean has donated 30-seconds ... more

Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest ... more

Arkansas reported it’s first H1N1 influenza death August 10. Since then 19 more deaths have been added to bring the total to 20 confirmed deaths ... more

AP - In a Nov. 17 story about drug interactions between heartburn medications and the blood thinner Plavix, The Associated Press misidentified Johnson & Johnson's ... more