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Americans just aren't founding new companies like they once did. Startups are near a 40-year low, according to the Census.

Superstar model Iman attended her first public event since the death of her husband, rocker David Bowie, in January.

President Barack Obama exchanged "pleasantries" with his Philippines counterpart on Wednesday following an ugly outburst earlier this week that led to a cancellation of formal talks between the two leaders.

Fifteen years after the start of the war, Afghanistan is sliding backwards. We cannot allow this to happen, David Miliband says.

Members of a high school football team gave a California cheerleader 57 orange roses, a sign of support in her battle against leukemia.

There's one thing largely missing from the 2016 race: a debate about what Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would actually do as president.

Brits wanting to buy the new iPhone 7 will have to dig a lot deeper into their pockets. And it's all down to Brexit.

The Obama administration made two additional cash payments totaling $1.3 billion, after delivering $400 million to Iran by plane in January, to resolve a failed arms deal, administration officials told lawmakers Tuesday.

London's famous Palace of Westminster, home to the UK's parliament, is decaying and in urgent need of repairs.

Dragonair plane collides with van while taxiing at Hong Kong International Airport.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience Wednesday night that she thought "cooler heads will prevail" when asked about the Senate's refusal to hold hearings to fill the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia, adding she hoped it would happen "sooner rather than later."

The schedule and amount of hours you work might influence your health in different ways, depending on your age -- and here's how.

Roger Ailes has been advising Donald Trump since Ailes was still at Fox -- now he's helping Trump sharpen his message for his first debate with Hillary Clinton.

A photo of a 5-year-old stopping for the Pledge of Allegiance is the internet's newest fave.

Experts tasked with considering whether we have entered the Anthropocene -- the geological age characterised by humans' influence on the planet -- say yes.

Drinking is linked to a higher risk of death yet exercising "cancels out" the higher risk of death from cancer and overall risk of death, according to a new study.

National Women's Soccer League franchise Washington Spirit altered its pre-game ceremony to thwart Seattle Reign's Megan Rapinoe from supporting NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Formula One may soon have a new owner but it looks like the man behind the wheel is going nowhere -- for now at least.

After concerns the Paralympics would even go ahead at all, the opening ceremony kicked off the Games in spectacular style.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battled Wednesday to stake out ground on national security during a "Commander in Chief" forum hosted by NBC News.