People start singing Auld Lang Syne and a flash of images passes before your eyes and you start thinking, “Geez, that was a long year, wasn’t it?” It was torturous going through it at times, like just for instance, the Peterson (search) trial. That seemed to drag forever … then …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Shares of Intel Corp. (INTC) sank Wednesday after the world’s largest chip maker said its second-quarter profits jumped 16 percent and sales increased to $9.23 billion, but its profit margin came in lower than expected. Shares of Intel fell $1.74, or 6.1 percent, to $26.97 on …

LOS ANGELES – Multiplatinum singer Pink (search) is reportedly getting married. The 25-year-old proposed to her boyfriend of nearly four years — motocross racer Carey Hart (search) — during a race in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Us Weekly reported. The singer, whose real name is Alecia Moore, reportedly wrote ‘Will you …

WASHINGTON – A quirk in how the U.S. government defined terrorism meant that when Chechen rebels blew up two airliners almost simultaneously over Russia last year, only one was counted in an annual tally of terrorist attacks. On board one plane were 46 Russians. But the other had 43 Russians …

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Pakistani soldiers fought militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, the military said Sunday. Eighteen people, including one soldier, died in the clash. A military statement said some of the dead were women and children, while a military official told The AP that a …

STAMFORD, Conn. – A company that organizes wrestling entertainment has agreed to remove an Arab-American character from a popular television show after receiving hundreds of complaints about an episode that aired the day of the deadly London bombings. World Wrestling Entertainment (search) said it would no longer feature Muhammad Hassan …

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. (search) diplomats have revised their blueprint for reforming the world body to include a definition of terrorism, indicating nations are moving toward consensus on a contentious global issue. World leaders are to consider the plan at their summit in September and, if approved, the definition could …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Disney World officials have reopened an attraction they closed because a 16-year-old British girl suffered cardiac arrest after riding it. Disney has invited an official from the state Bureau of Fair Rides and Exhibitions to monitor the inspection, which the park doesn’t typically do. The British girl …

WASHINGTON – A Bush administration official says Dr. Jeffrey Runge (search) will resign as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to become chief medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security. Runge plans to step down as the Bush administration’s top traffic safety official in late August for …

Three years ago this month, millions of women taking menopausal hormone therapy to improve their heart health got the news that the treatment may be doing them more harm than good. In the months following the unexpected halting of the now famous Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial in July 2002, …