Sergio Garcia gave himself a timely boost for this week's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona with a scintillating finish to the Northern Trust Open yesterday.

Phil Angelides, who chaired the US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) and raged at bonus-obsessed bankers, has abandoned his plan to cash in on the chaos in the mortgage market.

Viral video demands nationwide biscuit boycott

Military tribunal begins for US soldiers' killing of 24 Iraqi civilians – one of the war's worst episodes

The problem with State of the Nation novels is that, if you're going to be fair to all your characters and not just satirise them into the ground, and you're also hoping for a decent amount of dramatic intensity, then you're going to have a very delicate task in terms of making things happen.

More than 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters have blocked cargo trucks at some of the West Coast's busiest ports, forcing terminals in Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon, and Washington state to halt operations.

Margarito said that illegal plaster across his knuckles had nothing to do with his win

Riot police cleared out an anti-Wall Street encampment in Oakland, California, early yesterday, and drove hundreds of demonstrators from similar camps in Portland, Oregon.

Part of California's famous Highway 1 route has crumbled into the Pacific Ocean.

Albemarle & Bond said its gold-buying service contributed nearly a fifth of total profits in its first full year of operation.

A federal appeals court has put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely while it considers the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban.

A vehicle ran into a crowd and killed eight people during an off-road race in the Southern California desert, police said today.