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BJP officials also demanded that the state take a more determined approach against terrorism and adopt a zero-tolerance policy on terror.

Leaders around the world have united in their condemnation of the bombings in Mumbai which have killed at least 21 people and injured more than 130.

Rupert Murdoch and his son James have been summoned to appear before members of British Parliament on Tuesday to respond to questions about the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed their media company, News Corp.

The term “Manhattanhenge” was created by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in 1996 at the American Museum of Natural History, who noticed how similar it was to the way the sun sets in Stonehenge.

Piers Morgan, the CNN talk show host, may find his past coming back to haunt him.

Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared one day from the streets of SoHo in lower Manhattan in May 1979 and was never seen alive again.

Following Wednesday’s series of bomb blasts that struck three areas of the city (and have thus far killed at least 20 people); the biggest stars of Bollywood expressed their shock and anger through Twitter or directly to media.

This was a coordinated attack by terrorists, Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters in New Delhi.

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. July 13, 2011

Pakistan’s top government officials have both condemned the bomb blasts that have struck the Indian financial hub of Mumbai and killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens of others.

Egypt's interim government has sacked hundreds of police officers in response to demands by protesters of cleaning up corruption on the force, according to state-controlled TV.

A powerful American Senator wants to investigate Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to determine if the phone-hacking scandal has stretched across the water from Britain to the U.S.

Netflix’s plans to sharply hike the price of its DVD/streaming plans have unleashed a wave of angry response from its customer base.

Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the chief of Pakistan’s intelligence agency is visiting Washington D.C. for talks as relations between his country and the US appear to have fallen to an all-time nadir.

Four months after one of the greatest catastrophes his country has ever suffered, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he wants to see a nuclear-free Japan.

The Chinese government shut down more than 1-million websites last year, according to The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a state-run think tank.

Ex-President Bill Clinton will not be able to attend the funeral of former First Lady Betty Ford due to mechanical problems encountered by the airplane he was scheduled to take.

Nearly every developed region around the world is suffering from the same fiscal imbalances as Greece

Prince William is only 29 years old, but he is already showing signs of serious balding.

Better yet, high-tech firms are adding far more workers than they are letting go.

Hispanics form a significant and ever-increasing portion of big league baseball players.

The beleaguered News Corp., burdened by an ever-worsening scandal regarding illegal phone-hacking, may be forced to unload its remaining newspapers in Great Britain, according to Rupert Murdoch’s biographer.

Such a mass culling of jobs would be one of the largest such corporate layoffs in recent memory.

Sherwood Schwartz, the producer who created two of the most iconic television shows in U.S. history, The Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s Island, has died at the age of 94, according to a report on NBC.

Israeli company Crossrider has developed an application called Google+Facebook that has had more than 100,000 downloads, according to Reuters.

Islamic extremists in the deserts of North Africa are exploiting the chaos and violence in Libya to obtain weapons, warned Franco Frattini, Italy’s Foreign Minister.

Three of the most high-profile executives embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal in Britain will soon be answering questions from British politicians about alleged bribes paid to police officers for information used in newspaper articles.

Eguchi Aimi is a pop star that does not really exist.

Yousuf Raza Gilani telephoned Karzai to deliver his condolences for his loss, although relations between the two South Asian neighbors have been strained over accusations of cross-border attacks by militants.