Kevin West

French fashion great Yves Saint Laurent, whose name has been synonymous with the heights of haute couture for decades, is expected to announce his retirement Monday.

Argentina's lower house of Congress gave approval late Saturday to an emergency economic plan.

The highest-ranking member of the Taliban under U.S. custody was being held aboard a warship Sunday.

A U.S. envoy was hopeful Saturday he could guide Israelis and Palestinians toward a truce.

Israel offered a detailed account Sunday of its seizure of a shipload of Iranian-made arms traveling through the Red Sea, saying the evidence proves the weapons were intended for the Palestinian Authority.

Billionaire media entrepreneur and rancher Ted Turner is hoping to create a new empire: a restaurant chain featuring 25 versions of the bison burger.

Arthur Gordon, a former editor of Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and Guidepost magazines and the author of 14 books, has died at his Savannah home. He was 89.

With $200 in the bank and two sons to support, Paula Deen was barely kidding when she went into business as the Bag Lady.

Prosecutors say charges are pending against four men in connection with a suspicious fire that destroyed much of a hot sauce company's plant.

British investigators were examining flight recorders for clues in the crash of a small jet taking off from an airport here that killed five Americans, including the president of a Georgia-based company.