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Stores may have just begun to hang holly, but the orchestral group has been in a festive spirit all year long. They've recorded a new album that explores the holiday season within a global context.

It may be months before the much-delayed passenger jet is in service, industry experts say. Airlines that ordered it are growing increasingly restless. A fire during a test flight in November exposed serious problems with the electrical system.

In a speech to a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister thanked U.S. lawmakers for their unswerving support and laid down a hard line on any new peace talks with the Palestinians.

Try as you might, you can't walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the sun or a star. You might think you're walking straight, but a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.

Spending online this holiday season is expected to break records. Although shopping on the Internet has become more convenient, it can still be tough to determine which businesses to trust. A new Web tool from the Better Business Bureau is designed to help.

The Treasury secretary defended the insurance giant's $182 billion rescue, but told a House panel that he had "no role" in withholding details of deals in which billions of dollars meant to bail out AIG instead went to its business partners.

A men's Olympic luger from the country of Georgia died Friday after a high-speed crash during training. IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony "clearly casts a shadow over these games."

One of the most soaring voices in the world has taken a dive, but we don't mean that unkindly. This fall in Berlin, Placido Domingo, the great tenor, is singing the title role in Simon Boccanegra as a baritone. It's a testament to his ambitious spirit.

Though you may not know him by name, you certainly know his work: Mitchell produced a string of hits by Al Green in the early to mid-1970s.

This year China is expected to replace Japan as the world's second-largest economy, and Germany as the world's biggest exporter. It has become a key global player, but its leaders say it is still a developing country with limited means. Many ordinary Chinese agree with this view and see superpower status as a distant prospect.