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Iceland's Financial Surveillance Authority (FME) said on Saturday it had sacked director Gunnar Andersen following a report into his time as an executive at failed bank Landsbanki. Daily Morgunbladid quoted Andersen as saying he would forcefully fight for his job and denying any wrongdoing.

Defense lawyers made a case for Allen Stanford's innocence on Friday in a courtroom filled with people who claim he stole millions of dollars of their savings. Some two dozen investors were at the federal courthouse in Houston to mark the third anniversary of the closure of the Stanford Financial Group in February 2009.

Brittanee Drexel, a-17-year-old girl on spring break in Myrtle Beach, disappeared in 2009. It will be three years on August 25 since the New York teen disappeared from outside her hotel on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach. Police are now naming convicted sex offender Raymond Moody, 51, as a person of interest in the police classified “cold case.”

A federal immigration agent died and another was injured in a shootout that followed a confrontation between the U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) officers in Long Beach, California, the latest reports said.

One-legged millionaire Thomas Hartmann sentenced to 60 days in prison after hitting woman in the head with his Rolex watch.

Hank Morris, who was convicted for his role in an extensive pay-to-play pension scam, will face at least another year in prison after being denied bail.

A U.S. judge intends to schedule a retrial for this June between Oracle Corp and SAP AG over copyright infringement allegations, according to a court filing.

Josh Powell, who killed himself and his two boys in a Feb. 5 explosion, is still not buried. While his sons Charlie,7, and Braden,5, were laid to rest on Saturday at Woodbine Cemetary, the people of Pierce County, Washington are fighting against Powell being buried next to his children. Before the explosion, Powell took a hatchet to his two boys.

The murder trial of George Huguely is moving forward in Charlottesville, Va. Huguely has been accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley Love in 2010. A medical examiner in the Huguely murder trial testified yesterday that Yeardley Love could have survived if someone would have called for help. Love, 22, had suffered a brutal beating, but died slowly over the course if two hours while face down on her bed.

Amanda Knox was acquitted of murder in October, but Italian prosecutors are challenging the judges' ruling. Prosecutors in the city of Perugia, where the Seattle-born student was found guilty of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, have filed for an appeal with Italy's Supreme Court.

The robbery of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the island of Nevis highlights a growing concern for vacationers about the safety of the Caribbean Islands.

China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said foreign TV shows cannot be aired from 19:30 to 22:00.

A Belgian court has ruled that Tintin in the Congo does not break racism laws and therefore will not be banned in the country

One of the people hired to transport actress Lindsay Lohan's stuff is planning to sell information and photos on it.

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the colorful and controversial representative of the city after the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is under investigation by federal authorities, a source with direct knowledge of the probe said on Friday.

Police have yet to explain how he escaped, and what he was doing this last week

Jerry Sandusky spoke to the media on Friday after attending a pretrial hearing in his child sexual-abuse case. The former Pennsylvania State University assistant coach addressed the complaints of his neighbors and certain restrictions that the government has placed on him.

Kashgari said he is being made a scapegoat.

What you need to know about No Child Left Behind.

Police will not comment on how Hoskins escaped or why the institution waited nearly a week to report it

Josh Powell reportedly told his children - Charles, 7, and Braden, 5 - that he had a 'big surprise' for them as he took them inside the house in Graham, about 25 miles southeast of Tacoma, only to butcher them with a hatchet. He also set the house on fire, killing himself on Sunday Feb 5. The gripping details of the twin-murder were revealed by social worker Elizabeth Griffin-Hall as she spoke to the ABC News on Thursday.

Reproductive rights advocates on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to make the morning-after pill immediately available to girls of all ages without a prescription.

Greg Kelly is the son of NY Police Commissioners Ray Kelly.

Texas financier Allen Stanford drew on a secret Swiss bank account to pay bribes and for personal expenses such as yacht maintenance, the government's top witness said at Stanford's fraud trial on Friday.

Perhaps it is only a coincidence, but the drop in violent crime has roughly occurred concurrently with a spike in obesity.

TSA has confiscated a lot of items at airports over the years, from switch-blades to guns to large bottles of shampoo--but they are definitely not supposed to take $5,000 from a passenger.

The case against Imam was brought by an attorney named Asran Mansour who is affiliated with Islamist political groups.

Colin Firth has signed on to star as Ron Lax, the private investigator whose detective work helped get three men who had been convicted of murder released from prison in Arkansas, the producers of the Devil's Knot told TheWrap Wednesday.

A police officer shot in the head outside a public-housing complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday is expected to make a full recovery, police officials said Wednesday.