An Indiana Senate committee is considering legislation that would allow casinos on Lake Michigan and the Ohio River to relocate inland. Proponents of the bill told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday that moving the casinos on to land could improve their business and help ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Severe winter freezes, like the one gripping parts of Europe over the last few weeks, will become increasingly rare because of the warming effect of climate change, the UK's official forecaster said on Tuesday. Europe's deep winter freeze, partly due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, has shocked parts of northwest Europe that usually escape the ...

The still-scuffling U.S. economy may keep some NBA teams from starting the season with a full, 15-player roster, according to a survey of all 30 franchises by The Associated Press. With the season opening next week and final rosters due on Monday, the survey found that nearly ...

An Australian quadriplegic who last month won the landmark legal right to starve himself to death by preventing his carers from feeding him died on Monday, his family said. Severely paralysed Christian Rossiter, 49, died in a nursing home in the western city of Perth in the early hours of Monday after developing a chest infection, his brother Tim Rossiter ...