Clashes continued to escalate in Ukraine on Monday after a weekend of fierce fighting and shelling in the country’s southeast rendered a five-month-old peace accord all but dead. Russian President Vladimir Putin blames a "NATO foreign legion" for the war
Social-networking platforms Facebook and Instagram went down briefly on Tuesday. Users were unable to access either site for upwards of 30 minutes
Microsoft said its profits fell more than 10% during its latest quarter despite an uptick in sales of phones and cloud services
Millions of people up and down the East Coast dug in Monday evening as a snowstorm expected to be one of the largest blizzards ever to hit the region began burying cities from Pennsylvania to Maine in what was forecast to exceed 2 ft. of snow
Cindra Ladd, a former entertainment executive, is the latest woman to publicly accuse the 77-year-old comedian of sexual assault. Ladd kept silent about the incident for 36 years, and says she has no plans to sue or discuss the matter any further
Tomas Berdych ended his 17-match losing streak to Rafael Nadal, stunning the Spaniard to advance to the Australian Open semifinals. Berdych played an impossibly clean match to upend Nadal, who was seeking to advance to his fifth tournament semifinal
The Islamic State last week threatened to kill two Japanese citizens, unless it received $200 million. After the 72-hour deadline passed, a message purportedly issued on behalf of the group claimed Yukawa had been beheaded and demanded the release of Sajida al-Rishawi
Delta Airlines has apologized to a woman who was required to check her breast pump against company policy. "Delta supports the rights of women to breast-feed," an airline spokesperson said
Lance Armstrong claims he would never dope today. But if he had to go back in time, the 43-year-old cyclist who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles would probably do it all over again. "People don't like to hear that. That’s the honest answer," he said
A mommy blogger is on trial outside New York City regarding the death of her 5-year-old son, whom she allegedly poisoned with high levels of salt while sharing his worsening medical condition over the Internet
The Harry Potter actress' latest role will be another bookish heroine — Belle in Disney's new live-action adaptation of the classic fairy tale. "Time to start some singing lessons," the actress posted on her Facebook page
Tom DeLonge is no longer part of rock band Blink-182 — or at least that’s what reports going around the Internet on Monday afternoon claimed. But, according to him, that’s not true. “I never quit the band,” DeLonge said in a statement
Pretty much everyone knows that Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and the light bulb, but Edison, one of history's most prolific creators, didn't stop there
