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On Monday, WikiLeaks, the whistleblower Web site, said it was temporarily stopping publication of classified documents and focusing on survival in the face of funding blockades.

Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing Web site known for releasing secret government files, on Monday said it is suspending its publication in order to seek funding to sustain its work. Wikileaks has been forced to shift focus toward fundraising because 95 percent of its revenue has been destroyed.

Large European private equity buyouts are on hold until capital markets revive, which is unlikely to happen this side of Christmas as leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets remain weak, bankers said on Thursday.

Human activity in melting regions.

Air travel has resumed in South America after an ash cloud from Chile's Puyehue Volcano grounded flights.

Iceland's Katla Volcano is showing signs of an impending eruption, sparking fears of travel chaos much worse than 2010's Eyjafjallajokull eruption.

A former Miss Iceland who met Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger and his girl friend in California was paid a $2 million reward for the tip that led to Bulger's arrest in June, the Boston Globe said on Sunday.

Anna Bjornsdottir, a former Miss Iceland 1974, has been publicly named as the tipster who led to arrest of fugitive James Whitey Bulger. She has received a $2 million reward for turning in the notorious gangster.

The tipseter who reportedly got $2 million in reward money for handing over information that led to the location of Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger was apparently a former Miss Iceland, Anna Bjornsdottir. Bjornsdottir had reportedly been living in both Iceland and Santa Monica, where Bulger, 82, was living with his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, 60, according to a report from CBS station WBZ.

Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, is live-streaming today the annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower, a memorial art piece dedicated to the former Beatles musician,.

What started as a protest to occupy Wall Street seems to have turned into a protest that wants to occupy more New York locations.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to spread across the country, the protestors in the place where it all started, New York City, are being blamed for the recent clashes with police, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads across the country and the GOP presidential race heats up, the two have sort of merged, with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain telling the protestors if they don't have a job, it's their own doing.

Greece will default on its debts, Ireland could too and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be forced out as Europe's financial crisis plays out, author Michael Lewis predicted on Tuesday.

Typically, Japanese whaling vessels sail to the Antarctic in late autumn and return the following spring.

Their goal was this: 'Move in' and Occupy Wall Street for a little bit, flood lower Manhattan with peaceful protestors and fill it with bedding and kitchens and demonstration signs. Their motive was to show that 'We the 99% are fed up with the greed and corruption of the 1%.

Real Madrid faces Ajax in Champions League group play action.

Los Galacticos are coming off a 6-2 victory over Rayo Vallecano

Protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement took an impromptu march up Broadway, clashing with police officers, and getting arrested in the process.

Protesters congregated in New York's Financial District on Saturday for a global Day of Rage movement called Occupy Wall Street to protest corporate greed in a demonstration set to last days.

Protestors involved with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration have started their pilgrimage toward Wall Street, where they have started to set up camp for an indeterminable amount of time in order to curb the influence of big business over Washington lawmakers.