Estimates are that NBC has spent as much as $25 million promoting “Smash,” a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs.

The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.

Nineteen Americans are among a list that Egyptian authorities have referred to criminal trials as part of an investigation into foreign financing of nonprofit groups

Unusually cold weather that already has caused almost 200 deaths and snarled air and ground traffic is expected to continue sweeping across Europe in coming days.

The era of food prices always falling has come to an end with the world population set to add another 2 billion people, according to Cargill Inc., the U.S. farm commodities trader.