Palash Ghosh

A television station in Orlando, Fla. wants a judge to hand over a jailhouse video which purportedly shows Casey Anthony reacting to news that the remains of her deceased daughter Caylee had been found.

The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the British media empire of Rupert Murdoch may become the biggest political imbroglio in the UK in many years … but it remains rather tame compared to the Profumo, affair which exploded in the country almost 50 years ago.

India has cheered the decision by the U.S. to suspend an $800-million military aid package to its traditional enemy and nuclear neighbor, Pakistan.

Chinese most senior military commander has criticized the U.S. for its excessive spending on defense and also blamed Washington for rising tensions in the South China Sea.

A Republican lawmaker in Southern California wants as many as thirteen counties from the southern part of the state to secede from the almost-bankrupt state and form its own new state entity, which would be the nation’s 51st .

Google+ may be undergoing some changes, perhaps as soon as later this, week in response to complaints and suggestions from users of the two-week-old social network.

Charles, the Prince of Wales, said the imminent end of J.K. Rowling;s series of books on Harry Potter is “awful” and will dissuade more children from reading.

News Corp. shares are down 6.8 percent as of 2:05 p.m. (EDT) at $16.18 per share.

Those Slurpees that 7-11 stores across the country are handing out today might be free, but they will only serve to make you fatter and unhealthier in the long run,

Google will open an “Internet research institute” on Germany later this year.

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was targeted by the Sunday Times, a newspaper that is owned by News International, which also owned the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.

After only two weeks since its introduction, Google+ might already have at least 5-million users in the U.S.

Moammar Gaddafi’s son said that the Libyan government is negotiating with France to find a solution to the months-long civil war raging in that North African country.

Fears are spiraling that Italy may need a bailout as the yield on the country’s government bonds have surged to 5.4 percent.

Honor crimes are rooted in ancient tribal customs whereby the “honor” of a family or a whole village is represented by the morality, chastity and proper behavior of its women. Any perceived violation of that sense of honor often leads to deadly consequences.

Although honor killings are typically associated with Muslim countries like Turkey, Iraq and especially Pakistan, the practice has nothing to do with Islam.

Facundo Cabral, one of the most popular folk singers in Latin America, has been shot to death by gunmen in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

The opposition British Labour Party has demanded that the investigation of the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the News of the World (NOTW) commence immediately so that more crucial evidence is not lost.

In what is perhaps an unprecedented development, a major U.S. newspaper has called for the removal of the chief of a foreign country’s intelligence chief.

Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World who was ensnared in the ongoing phone-hacking scandal, has been released on police. He was arrested earlier on suspicion of having bribed police officers, corruption, as well as phone-hacking.

The shocking closing of the News of the World – the most popular newspaper in Britain – in the wake of a phone hacking scandal has prompted fury and outrage among 200 employees who will soon lose their jobs.

Orkut, Google’s existing social network system, will still be active, even as the widely anticipated Google+ site starts up.

Although he was the number one overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft of 1999, his ascension to the big leagues was sidetracked by injuries and drug addiction.

Rebekah Brooks, the embattled CEO of News International, said she will not resign from her post in defiance of massive pressure on her from many quarters, in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the demise of her tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW).

The parents of Casey Anthony have been receiving death threats since their daughter was acquitted of charges in a Florida court that she killed her 2-year-old daughter.

In order for Google+ to supplant Facebook, it will have to appeal to at least one crucial segment of the online population – college students.

Google said its new unveiled social communication service, Google+, will likely be made available to its business customers by the end of the year.

Prior to the passing of Shannon Stone, the 39-year-old Brownwood, Texas fan on Thursday, the only other time a fan died in a similar way in a big league ballgame was more than 40 years ago in Los Angeles.

Whereas Casey Anthony’s guilt remains debatable (most people seem to believe she killed her child), there is no doubt that life in India for infant girls (as well as fetuses) involves extremely high risk.