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Andrea Pininfarina, the chairman and chief executive of the Italian company founded by his family that designs Ferraris and other cars, died on Thursday when a car struck his Vespa...

Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like "Butley," "Otherwise Engaged" and "Quartermaine's Terms" about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic...

President Pervez Musharraf will stage a spirited defense against impeachment charges that the governing coalition is pursuing against him and has no intention of resigning under pressure, his key allies...

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's already debilitating legal troubles were compounded Friday as Michigan's attorney general charged him with two felony counts of assaulting police officers. Kilpatrick had to be arraigned via...

It should come as no surprise that "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," Joss Whedon's 42-minute online musical, has been greeted like the second coming of, well, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." From...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates will endorse a $20 billion plan to substantially increase the size of Afghanistan's army and will also restructure the military command of American and NATO forces...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates will endorse a $20 billion plan to substantially increase the size of Afghanistan's army and will also restructure the military command of American and NATO forces...

Citigroup Inc. will buy back more than $7 billion of auction-rate securities from investors to settle claims it misled clients about the dangers of the investments, as part of a...

The building at 32 Kartashov St. had had enough. It once served as home to a 19th Century merchant, a little log masterpiece with ornate doors and shutters carved like...

Comic book collectors like their numbers. They know that the first issue of "X-Men," which introduced Marvel's mutant superheroes, was published in 1963 and had a cover price of 12...