NEW YORK – The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has tied the knot at the famed Rainbow Room in New York’s Rockefeller Center, French newspapers reported Monday. Though details about the nuptials have been kept under wraps, Le Figaro and Liberation said Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz — the former Mrs. Sarkozy …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Unidentified gunmen killed a parliamentary candidate and an Iraqi police commander in separate attacks Sunday while a bomb that detonated as a police patrol passed through central Baghdad killed three civilians, police said. The latest attacks came one day after insurgents killed 19 Iraqi soldiers in a …

WASHINGTON – U.S. retail gasoline prices fell for the ninth week in a row, the government reported Monday, although the rate of decline slowed, and the price remained 24 cents higher than a year ago. President Bush said high gasoline prices amounted to a tax on consumers and businesses, and …

Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Here is an e-mail I received Wednesday night from Aruba Today’s, Tito Lacle: E-mail No. 1 Joran arrived in Aruba tonight!TL As you probably know, the “Joran” is Joran van der Sloot and he has been …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Court in the trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein adjourned until Tuesday in Iraq’s capital city after a Monday session marked by heated exchanges, tirades by the former Iraqi president and a walkout by his defense team. Saddam told the court at his trial he’s “not afraid …

SAN FRANCISCO – Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly 4 million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as the Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote in an online article published Wednesday. The finding, based on a side-by-side comparison of articles covering a broad …

NEW YORK – Editor’s note: This is the last in a series on avian influenza that has been featured all this week on FOXNews.com. State and local officials say they need more help from the federal government to make sure they have enough money and personnel to care for their …

When the Internet exploded onto the scene, it was interesting to see the concern expressed by both users and the many homespun Net pundits. Two early concerns were commercialization and censorship. Both fell by the wayside as the Net fell into a morass of commercialization, and censorship is ever increasing. …

WASHINGTON – The House sought to reassure millions of baby boomers worried about retirement benefits, passing legislation on Thursday that supporters said would revitalize employer-based pension plans. “Our nation’s pension laws are outdated and broken, placing at risk the retirement security of millions,” said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. He was …

NEW YORK – U.S. property and casualty insurers’ earnings rose 4.4 percent in the first nine months despite four hurricanes, according to the Insurance Services Office (ISO). The insurance industry’s after-tax income in 2005 rose $1.2 billion to $28.8 billion from $27.6 billion in first nine months of 2004, said …