Plan B: Central banks getting ready for financial Armageddon. Published time: October 15, 2013 14:19. Get short URL. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque. Tags. Budget, Crisis, Finance, Global economy, USA. If the US debt-ceiling debate goes past the eleventh hour, …

Global central banks have begun forming contingency plans on how they would keep financial markets working if the U.S. defaults on the world’s benchmark debt.

"When the shaking stopped, I ran to the street and there I saw several injured people. Some were saying their church has collapsed," she told The Associated Press by phone. As fear set in, Yorong and the others ran up a …

COLUMBUS– Columbus State Community College invited students, staff and members of the public to take part in a free day of classes Saturday as part of its 50th anniversary celebration."Columbus State Day" drew hundreds of people to…

The students at the University of Central Lancashire had attended the nineties star’s gig in the town before going to the after-party.

Tropical Storm Karen continued losing strength Saturday as it headed toward the central Gulf Coast, but forecasters were still expecting it to bring significant rain and potential flooding to low-lying areas.

Newton Independent U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced today that the last of three central Iowa restaurant owners and operators was sentenced for harboring illegal aliens and for filing false statements on the …

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In her first interview with the western media, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, a Unesco ambassador, said she hadn’t spoken to her elder sister Gulnara for 12 years

The city also sits at the foot of the rock where many of the defining events of the Old Testament took place: where Abraham was called upon to kill his son Isaac, where David brought the Ark of the Covenant, where Solomon's First Temple was built.