The flow of new customers to Sprint stopped in the latest quarter, even as the company weighs the offers of two corporate suitors.

A worker who was laying carpet in a Spokane apartment was shot in the head in a conflict with another man.

Thousands honor, mourn MIT Cop Sean Collier honored

Thousands gather to remember slain MIT police officer Sean Collier.

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President Barack Obama's new strategy for fighting the nation's drug problem will include a greater emphasis on using public health tools to battle addiction and diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment instead of prisons, under reforms scheduled to be outlined by the nation's drug czar Wednesday.

Barclays PLC has reported a return to profit in the first quarter, as it tries to restructure and get past recent scandals.

Wireless equipment maker Ericsson said Wednesday that a 2 percent gain in sales in the first quarter was not enough to prevent an 86 percent slump in net profit as it booked costs connected with downsizing its Swedish operations.

A Pakistani court on Wednesday rejected bail for ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a case connected to the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, a government prosecutor said.

The positive tone in markets continued Wednesday, a day after investors were cheered by a run of strong U.S. corporate earnings and rising hopes of an interest rate cut from the European Central Bank.

Animated science-fiction sitcom Futurama is to be discontinued by Comedy Central in the US, marking the second time the programme has been axed.

El-Hage said he was treated unjustly before his 2001 conviction in the August 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

Berlin's Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world's first real metropolis, in a new exhibition that traces the long history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq.

The nominee, Enrico Letta, deputy head of the Democratic Party, said he would consult with the country’s leaders about its “fragile and unprecedented” political situation.    

Fierce fighting is taking place for the control of a military airbase near Aleppo, reports say, as a Syrian minister says his country is in a war against terrorism.

Washington State University President Elson Floyd talks about its partnership with Everett Community College at a scholarship fundraiser Tuesday.

Ads are aimed at holding senators accountable for rejecting "common-sense" gun proposals.

Ads are aimed at holding senators accountable for rejecting "common-sense" gun proposals.

Fire officials said they planned to let the barges burn into the night.

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture expresses his "deep disappointment" over Bahrain's decision to indefinitely postpone his visit to the kingdom.