U.S. government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the biggest surge in mortgage defaults in at least three decades threatened to topple the companies making up almost half the U.S. home-loan market.

The Aussie Rock Scene has some of the most unique and diverse artists imaginable, and have helped in contributing to help shape Australian culture over the years. Every so often though, one Australian band will break through into international success...

The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, announced Sunday that the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

There's nothing economical about economy cars these days. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety -- an auto safety testing lab funded by a consortium of insurance companies -- has released a report on the cost of repairing small cars after ...

The British Antarctic Survey is advertising for a plumber to maintain one of the world's most remote research stations...

The search titan has exclusive rights among online mapping sites to images from the new GeoEye-1 satellite, which launched Saturday.

She's hunted moose at midnight without batting an eyelash, but Sarah Palin now finds herself up against the biggest beast of all: cultural expectations for women.

Polish intelligence sources confirm for the first time that the CIA ran a secret facility on Polish soil...

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Two suicide bomb blasts kill at least two people and injure 29 in a police station in the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.