The U.N. Security Council plans to vote on a much-negotiated resolution backing an Arab peace plan for Syria on Saturday, a day after government forces reportedly killed more than 200 people in Homs.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:57:46 GMT

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:57:46 GMT

The current standoff with Iran is similar to the 'fateful' period before the 1967 Arab-Israel war, when Israel launched a preemptive strike, said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:08:35 GMT

Fierce controversy over a policy that cut -- then apparently restored -- funding for Planned Parenthood by the Susan G.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:00:49 GMT

Veteran photographer Gerd Ludwig publishes an app instead of a book to showcase his long-term documentation of Chernobyl's fallout.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 01:08:40 GMT

An American held hostage in Egypt told NBC News on Friday that she was “not at all afraid” of the Bedouin tribesmen who captured her and two others.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:30:15 GMT

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:30:15 GMT

Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratchet up violence , the United Nations said.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:17:36 GMT

A 49-year-old brigadier general died of apparently natural causes in Afghanistan, the Army said Friday, the highest-ranking soldier to die during the war.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 01:57:40 GMT

The actor died Friday of pancreatic cancer, The New York Times reported. The star of films and plays such as "Anatomy of a Murder" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was 81.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:08:30 GMT

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:41:29 GMT

A California woman is fighting a porn piracy case by arguing that porn can't be copyrighted in the first place.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:38:19 GMT

Five people were thought to have been injured after an explosion at a Marine Corps base in Coleville, California, NBC station KRNV reported late Friday.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:13:18 GMT

Andrew Bynum scored 22 points, Kobe Bryant added 20 and the Los Angeles Lakers opened a season-high six-game trip with a 93-89 victory over the weary Denver Nuggets on Friday night.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:41:52 GMT

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:41:52 GMT

By msnbc.com news services The U.S. economy produced another solid month of job gains in January, offering a hopeful sign for hiring in the year ahead. Employers added a net 243,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:44:11 GMT

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:44:11 GMT

A worker was leaning over to retrieve a flashlight when he lost his balance and fell into a reactor pool at the San Onofre nuclear power plant last week, plant officials say.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:37:01 GMT

Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong on Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort aimed at determining whether the seven-time Tour de France winner and his teammates participated in a doping program.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 01:50:07 GMT

So, you think your last trip was exhausting? Trust us, if you want to know what exhausted truly looks like, check out "After: Portraits from Denali," a new photographic exhibit on display at the Anchorage Museum Feb. 3–April 15.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:58:59 GMT

PFT: Peyton, Irsay making life difficult for fans

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 02:58:52 GMT

 Daniel Radcliffe admitted he was drunk while filming some scenes for the "Harry Potter" movies during a period in his life where he was drinking "nightly," the young star said in an interview. "I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:29:59 GMT

The retailer is turning its back on One Million Moms, a group which called for the talk show host to be dumped as national spokeswoman because she is gay.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:41:18 GMT

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:41:18 GMT

Bradley Manning, the Army private accused in the WikiLeaks scandal, was ordered Friday to face a general court martial on charges he released thousands of documents of classified information.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:14:48 GMT

Dwyane Wade scored 26 points, and LeBron James had 19 points and 12 rebounds to lift the Miami Heat to a 99-79 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night.

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 05:07:57 GMT

A powerful winter storm moving across Colorado forced the state Department of Transportation to close portions of Interstate 70 and Interstate 25 on Friday.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:58:04 GMT

  We already know that one key way to make more money and stay employed is to get more education.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:05:09 GMT

It was one of those cases that seemed straight out of pulp fiction, a noir mystery written by one of those hard-boiled scribes who liked to surround damsels in distress with mobsters and movie stars.  Yet it was real life.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:02:40 GMT

According to new data from the Congressional Budget Office, U.S.-based companies paid only 12.1 percent in taxes on profits earned domestically. This is the lowest rate in four decades.

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:28:05 GMT