BERLIN – German authorities say a billionaire businessman’s son was kidnapped and held overnight before being released unharmed without payment of the millions of euros demanded. Markus Wuerth, the 50-year-old son of the Wuerth tool and hardware company chairman Reinhold Wuerth, was abducted on Wednesday in an area northeast of …

An Afghan Red Cross worker who was arrested last spring for converting to Christianity has been released from an Afghanistan prison. The worker, Said Musa, 46, was released from prison last week “after aggressive international diplomacy engaged Afghanistan’s government,” International Christian Concern, an organization that worked directly with his case, …

Things are looking up for one Nashville baking company, all thanks to an innovative CEO and trays of warm biscuits. Like so many companies across the nation, The Tennessee Bun Company’s sales started to plummet in 2008. The outlook was grim; CEO Cordia Harrington was getting ready to cut hours …

War is being waged right now across the country — against huge, ever-growing packs of feral pigs that are running rampant, destroying crops, killing wildlife and spreading disease everywhere they go, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports. They’ve been spotted all the way from Texas to California to Michigan and …

To a chorus of boos, a man dressed as a polar bear entered Copenhagen’s main conference center Tuesday and began paging the discredited climate scientist whose hacked e-mails sparked the Climate-Gate scandal. Using a megaphone to pierce the rumble of hundreds gathered inside the Bella Center, which is hosting the …

NASA was able to put a man on the moon, but the space agency can’t tell you what the temperature was when it did. By its own admission, NASA’stemperature records are in even worse shape than the besmirched Climate-gate data. E-mail messages obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request …

Production facilitator Jeff Rice, who worked for reality shows including the current season of “The Amazing Race,” was found dead in his hotel room in Kampala, Uganda, and his production assistant was in critical condition after a suspected poisoning, the man’s grieving widow told FoxNews.com. “They were not attacked, but …

Raymond Hosier is wearing his purple rosary beads to school again. A day after a federal judge ordered a New York middle school to reinstate the seventh-grader, who was suspended for wearing the Catholic prayer beads last month, the 13-year-old Schenectady boy is proudly displaying them again. He wears them …

There are huge political benefits for President Obama and Republicans in the Senate and Congress from a large scale deal that would cut some $4 trillion from the federal deficit and offer a tax reform package as well that would reduce rates and eliminate many loopholes particularly for upper income …

Columbia, SC – When you think of an archaeological dig, your backyard probably doesn’t come to mind. And neither does an intersection in your town. But for two South Carolina archaeologists, what started out as research for a doctorate degree turned into a treasure trove of history that lay right …