On Wall Street, all eyes are looking to China. The e-commerce giant Alibaba is expected to set an IPO price between $66 and $68 a share. Alibaba stock begins trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange. It could be the richest IPO ever, raising more ...

Last Updated Sep 10, 2014 4:06 AM EDT. BAGHDAD -- In his first visit to the warzone since the launch of U.S. airstrikes, Secretary of State John Kerry helicoptered into Baghdad under tight security on Wednesday to meet new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al ...

ERBIL, Iraq - Masrour Barzani is the head of Kurdish intelligence service, which is helping pick the targets for U.S. pilots in support of Kurdish forces on the ground. 14 Photos. Peshmerga fighters of Iraq. Militias battle ISIS in Iraqi Kurdistan. The U.S airstrikes ...

One day before he lays out his plans to the American public, President Obama on Tuesday will sit down with bipartisan leaders from Congress to explain his strategy for combating the Islamic extremists that have gained a foothold in Iraq and Syria. Play Video.

As the enterovirus D68 overwhelms hospitals in the Midwest, many parents are wondering how they can protect their kids. Stories and photos in recent days of children in intensive care units hooked up to oxygen and IV drips as a result of the illness are ...

NEW YORK -- Amazon (AMZN) is slashing the price of its Fire smartphone, a day before Apple is expected to unveil its latest version of the iPhone. The online retailer says the Fire with 32 gigabytes of memory will now cost 99 cents when customers sign a ...

Further tests are needed to pinpoint comedian Joan Rivers' cause of death, the New York City medical examiner says. 8 Photos. Remembering Joan Rivers. Memorials to the comic who died on Sept. 4, 2014. Rivers, who was 81, died Thursday at Mount Sinai ...

NEW YORK -- Motorola rolled out a circular smartwatch Friday, counting on a more traditional design to win over consumers who have so far shunned other computerized wrist devices. Smartwatches so far have had rectangular faces, a shape that has turned ...

The MTV Video Music Awards will kick off Sunday with what's sure to be an energy-filled performance by Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj and Jessie J. The trio of stars will perform their new song, "Bang Bang," live on the show, taking place at the Forum in ...

MONROVIA, Liberia -- Security forces deployed Wednesday to enforce a quarantine around a slum in the Liberian capital, stepping up the government's fight to stop the spread of Ebola and unnerving residents. Liberia has the highest death toll of the four ...

A New Mexico woman is being tested for Ebola, but health officials say that it is unlikely she has the virus. The state Department of Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are testing the 30-year-old patient at University of New ...

If news of Lauren Bacall's death Tuesday has you mourning an era that feels long gone, here's something else to wrap your head around -- her passing means all the Hollywood stars name-checked in Madonna's "Vogue" are now dead. 42 Photos ...

Facebook experienced a temporary outage on Friday, prompting its users to flock to Twitter. On Friday afternoon, many Facebook users encountered problems when they tried to log in. At about 12:30 p.m. ET, the site displayed an error message saying, "Sorry ...

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has surpassed 700, according to the World Health Organization. It's the deadliest outbreak ever recorded. U.S. health officials are warning Americans not to travel to the three countries hit by the outbreak: ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- The deadliest recorded Ebola outbreak surpassed 700 deaths across West Africa on Thursday as the World Health Organization announced dozens of new deaths reported in the last several days. In Sierra Leone, President Ernest Bai ...

BRUSSELS -- The United States and the European Union are preparing a powerful one-two punch against the Russian economy, with EU ambassadors meeting Tuesday to discuss a dramatic escalation in the trade bloc's sanctions on Russia. Measures ...

TEL AVIV, Israel - Secretary of State John Kerry defied a Federal Aviation Administration ban and flew into Israel's main airport Wednesday in a sign of sheer will to achieve a cease-fire agreement in the warring Gaza Strip despite little evidence of progress in ...

GIGLIO, Italy - It took one act of incompetence to wreck the Costa Concordia, but it's taken two and a half years and about $1 billion to get to the point of getting rid of the wreck. It's the biggest salvage operation ever attempted -- and one of the most risky, ...

Nominations for 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards are out -- and stars are celebrating their nods all over social media. Complete list of 2014 Emmy nominees · Complete Coverage: The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. HBO leads the network pack with 99 nods, ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has begged forgiveness from the victims of clergy sex abuse in his first meeting with several abuse survivors. The Vatican quoted Francis as expressing "sorrow" in his homily at a private Mass with six victims Monday for the ...