Debt drags Dow below 10,000

The Dow closed below 10,000 Monday for the first time in three months, with financial shares leading the way, as worries about the U.S. economy and European debt weighed on investor sentiment.

British Airways secures a High Court injunction to block a planned 12-day strike by cabin crew that had threatened to hit millions traveling over the festive period.

All Roman-style shades and roll-up blinds are being recalled after reports of babies and toddlers dying from strangulation, the federal agency in charge of product safety announced Tuesday — one of the five largest recalls in the agency’s 35-year history.

Now that the big guns have waded into the public standoff between Google and China, who will be the next to blink?

Strong winds and waves delayed rescuers trying to save dozens of passengers after a ferry sank Sunday off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 25, officials said.

Hundreds remained missing Sunday beneath mud and debris in Indonesian villages from a pair of devastating earthquakes that struck the country at its center.

Yudi Rinaldi had his four-year-old son, Ryan, join him in a scene that simulated the real destruction he had narrowly escaped in Aceh, Indonesia.

From glaciers to volcanoes to the famous “Pancake Rocks,” New Zealand has plenty to offer. iReporters submitted their favorite vacation photos and we chose nine great shots.

The head of Toyota Motor Corp. told his employees on Friday that the company must begin again if it is to regain its legacy of quality that helped make it the world’s largest automotive company.

We could one day be spending our holidays in a gigantic vertical airship that floats thousands of meters above ground if a design concept by Seymourpowell becomes reality.

The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape.

British Airways passengers face holiday season chaos after cabin crew vote to strike for almost two weeks over Christmas and New Year over cost-cutting measures.

The price of gold is flirting with $1,100 an ounce. Many other precious metals continue to surge. How much higher can gold go – and what’s it all mean?

Microsoft stocks soar after the software giant reports quarterly sales and profit that fell from year-ago results but easily beat Wall Street’s forecasts.

Fifteen people were killed Thursday and at least 25 were wounded in two suicide bombings in the Bannu District of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, officials said.

Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, above, is among 280 officials blocked from leaving the country after a court invalidates an amnesty protecting them from corruption charges, state media reports.