The in-laws of Sahar Gul, a 15-year-old Afghan girl, were Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in prison for the unsavory and barbaric treatment they inflicted on her after she had refused to enter prostitution.
A Phoenix woman was arrested Wednesday on accounts of fraud and theft after authorities alleged that she faked cancer to raise charitable funds because she wanted breast implants for herself.
The much-awaited full moon of the year graced the skies Saturday night, emerging bigger and brighter than usual, as it came closer to the earth.
Are Tyra Banks and Drake secretly dating? MediaTakeOut is reporting that the two, who are 13 years apart in age are romantically involved based off pictures of the two out together at Disney Land. Does that make Tyra a cradle robber? Check out the photos here.
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A SlutWalk rally was organized by some 70 protesters at Jerusalem's Paris Square Friday morning to protest against sexual violence and to respond against the claims that women's attire or her behavior provoked rape and sexual assault.
Communist leader Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, and a rumor that he had died of syphilis came to be widely accepted. But new research conducted for an annual conference at the University of Maryland has raised doubts.
Former BP engineer Kurt Mix pleaded not guilty Thursday in a federal court in New Orleans to charges that he deliberately destroyed evidence requested by authorities probing the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dechen Wangdu is an American-born activist of Tibetan descent. For her entire life, she has been devoted to the cause of Tibetan liberation from China. When she met Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, the two joined forces to fight against injustice together.
Houston police have identified the six-month-old baby they discovered stuffed inside a refrigerator on Wednesday as Joseph Elijah Mouton.
As Zac Efron faces a lukewarm reception for The Lucky One -- the film featuring his first grown-up romantic lead -- let's take a look back at the stars of High School Musical, the made-for-television Disney movie that launched a multimillion-dollar franchise. Whatever happened to Troy and Gabriella?
Adlene Hicheur, a Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison, with one year suspended, because of his conviction in the plotting of terrorist attacks.
Interview videos of Adam Yauch, aka MCA, provide some of the best insight into the Beastie Boy who died too young.
An estimated 80-90% of students in Asia have developed short-sightedness, and according to a recent study this especially high prevalence may be due to lack of time spent outdoors.
CEOs of major U.S. corporations have seen their pay increase by 725 percent between 1978 and 2011. In the same time, worker compensation grew by a painfully slow 5.7 percent.
Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson surrendered to a federal penitentiary Friday to begin serving a 13-year sentence, according to reports.
Craig Cornett, a former host of the morning show on 93.7 FM in St. Louis, was found dead in a Jonesboro, Ark., home. He was 46 years old.
Patricia Krentcil is tan and proud. The tanorexic New Jersey mother accused of bringing her redheaded, five-year-old daughter into a tanning booth with her recently called critics of her tanning jealous, fat and ugly.
On social media, there are calls to boycott the Miramar-based Spirit Airline after the airline refused to refund a dying veteran's nontransferable ticket.
In some U.S. presidential election years, one issue dominates, and that's likely to be the case in 2012. The issue: jobs, and so far the Obama administration's policies have not created enough. President Barack Obama needs to find ways to create more jobs, if he hopes to be re-elected.
One of the alleged prostitutes caught in the scandal surrounding the U.S. Secret Service reportedly told a Colombian radio program that the agent who had hired her left his luggage and papers exposed in the hotel room where he was staying and where he had taken her. Suarez said if she had been a spy, she could have easily removed his papers.
Two people dead and another is in critical condition after the victim's bodies were found in St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Howard County on Thursday.
A funeral service is being held Friday for the seven accident victims who died Sunday when their SUV fell from the Bronx River Parkway onto a remote area of the Bronx Zoo.
An Indian High Court Thursday dismissed the notion that refusal to have sex without a condom will be considered as a basis for filing divorce.
Being the tallest man in the United States is no small task for Igor Vovkovinskiy. For years, he has endured sore feet as he could not find shoes appropriate for his large demeanor, however, Reebok has offered to lend a helping hand.
A UC San Diego student, who was forgotten by the DEA in a cell for five days without food, water or any human contact, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against federal drug officials saying he suffered kidney failure. Daniel Chong's attorney Eugene Iredale has sent a five-page demand notice to the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) general counsel, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The second largest U.S. public pension fund said on Thursday it had sued current and former executives and board members at Wal-Mart Stores Inc, alleging bribery and a cover-up in the company's expansion in Mexico.
Patricia Krentcil, the New Jersey mother who is accused of burning her 5-year-old daughter after taking her to a tanning salon, appeared in Superior court in Newark and pleaded not guilty. Krentcil is facing a second-degree child endangerment charge and on Wednesday entered a not guilty plea to the charges.
China must follow a low-carbon growth path to reduce carbon emissions, which are believed to be highest among several cities in the country, the World Bank said on Thursday.Shanghai, Beijin and Tianjin are amongst the cities accounting for around 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions which is set to increase as china's population climbs to another 350 million in the next couple of decades, the international financial group said in a report.
An ancient piece of pottery was dropped off at a Goodwill thrift store by an unknown donor in New York State. The piece, which could date back to prehistoric times, will now be returned to the Caddo American Indians.
