CARACAS, Venezuela – A huge cloud of ash billowing from a Montserrat volcano forced the suspension of some international flights over the Caribbean on Sunday, airline and airport officials said. Flights between Venezuela and Miami were grounded, as well those to and from the Dutch island of Aruba, after a …

Is Tuesday’s date — 6-6-6 — merely a curious number or could it mean our number is up? There’s a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year. OK, it’s just the sixth year of this millennium, but …

CASPER, Wyo. – As Pat Patik looked at his new baby girl through the nursery window, he couldn’t help telling the nurse who stood next to him how cute his baby was. The nurse replied, “The other one’s just as cute.” As he figuratively picked his jaw off the floor, …

As Tropical Storm Claudette brought heavy rains to the Gulf Coast after landfall Monday, experts turned their attention to Hurricane Bill, slated to become the first major storm of the season within the next few days. Just hours after forming in the Atlantic Monday, Bill had maximum sustained winds near …

LOS ANGELES – Paris Hilton’s mother can only imagine what her celebrity daughter got her for Mother’s Day. That’s because thieves stole the gifts before Kathy Hilton received them. A gift bag containing nearly $10,000 worth of Christian Dior shoes, sunglasses, handbags and perfume was taken from outside the Hilton …

METHUEN, Mass. – Driving rains that caused the worst flooding in New England since the 1930s finally eased up Tuesday, but washed-out roads and the danger of dam breaks prevented many people from returning to their homes. More than a foot of rain fell across New Hampshire, Massachusetts and southern …

I’m mad. The New York Times wants Gitmo closed. The San Jose Mercury News claims that Gitmo nurtures a culture of death. The Cleveland Plain Dealer wants Gitmo closed. Journalists and editorial staffs are up in arms that there might possibly be some kind of torture occurring. So what do …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A court in Denmark was expected Wednesday to sentence nine people convicted of murder or accessory to murder in the killing of a 19-year-old woman gunned down by her older brother two days after her wedding because her Pakistani family disapproved of her choice of husband. On …

DETROIT – About 35,000 hourly workers at General Motors Corp. (GM) have taken buyout or early retirement offers, surpassing the company’s expectations as it tries to cut costs by paring its hourly work force, GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said Monday. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Autos page. The …

SAN MARINO, California – The genteel Huntington Library, which contains the rare documents by the likes of Chaucer and Dickens, is to house the gritty literary collection of author Charles Bukowski. Bukowski’s widow on Wednesday announced that she was donating her late husband’s chronicles of the hard-drinking, bar-brawling life in …