Scheming Italian renaissance family “The Borgias” will be the subject of a U.S. television series next year, with Oscar-winning British actor Jeremy Irons playing the starring role.

U.S. television network NBC said on Sunday it would lose money for the first time on the winter Olympics, which starts in Vancouver in February.

“Avatar” ruled the worldwide box office for a fourth weekend on Sunday, creeping closer to the all-time record held by writer/director James Cameron’s earlier effort “Titanic,” distributor 20th Century Fox said on Sunday.

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez ordered soldiers to seek out businesses that raise prices after a sharp devaluation of the bolivar currency last week, saying he will expropriate firms that engage in price gouging.

Opposition Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic convincingly won Sunday’s Croatian presidential election, pledging to help the government’s efforts to complete

The United States is ahead of the game in its fight against radical Islamists but it must remain nimble and pursue its enemies to new battlefields in Yemen and elsewhere, two key U.S. senators said on Sunday.