Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet survived a tough primary fight to win his party's nomination Tuesday, bucking the anti-incumbent tide that has been rumbling across the nation.
The Obama administration approved what would be the first U.S. offshore windmill farm, delivering a major victory for the wind energy industry after years of delays.
Former U.S.-appointed prime minister Ayad Allawi and his secular, anti-Iranian coalition narrowly won Iraq's parliamentary elections in final returns Friday, edging out the bloc of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who angrily vowed to challenge the results
US defence firm General Dynamics wins a £4bn contract to build a new light tank for the British Army.
NEW YORK - A three-legged pitbull mix that played in a game of doggie baseball has won "Best in Show" at a talent competition held by one of New York City's largest animal shelters. .
Reuters - A devout Hindu declared himself "overjoyed" Wednesday after winning a court fight to be allowed to be cremated in Britain on an open-air funeral pyre.
An Italian freelance photographer won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition Friday with an image of a woman shouting her protest at the results of the Iranian presidential election from a Tehran rooftop at dusk.
A Scotland-based painter known for destroying his large-scale wall murals after they have been exhibited won Britain’s best-known art award, the Turner Prize, on Monday. Turner Prize. - Richard Wright. - Painting. - Art. - Scotland.
Bill Madden of the Daily News of New York has won the Hall of Fame's Spink Award for his work as a baseball writer.
