Palash Ghosh

I am puzzled by the immense media attention on the sad tale of Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old Florida woman who was just found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.

Police in Australia's New South Wales state, which includes the largest city Sydney, will now have greater powers to remove the burqas or any other face coverings in order to identify criminal suspects.

The British Prime Minister has said that the Taliban could play a role in the future government of Afghanistan as long as they lay down their arms.

The hotel chambermaid at the center of the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a libel suit against the New York Post newspaper and five of its reporters for describing her as a prostitute in a story.

The world’s largest train manufacturer, Bombardier, said it will eliminate 1,400 jobs at its plant in Derby in the north of England.

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is willing to step down from power if he receives security guarantees, reported Russian media, quoting an unnamed Russian government official.

Speaking at a Delhi conference on HIV and AIDS attended by many top officials, India’s health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad described homosexuality as a disease which has come from other countries, and gay sex as unnatural.

Conservative religious activists in Pakistan have condemned and protested a gay rights event last week sponsored by the US embassy in Islamabad.

Aging British rock star has cancelled a concert in Kazakhstan to protest the crackdown by that country’s president upon striking oil and gas workers.

Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi has made her first trip out of Rangoon since her release from house detention last year.

Since June 15, there has been a significant rise in Treasury yields. Below we present several reasons for the spike and why we think that interest rates will continue to move higher.

A Tunisian court has sentenced deposed president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to fifteen years in prison after finding him guilty (in absentia) of possessing illegal drugs and guns.

A lady writer in France, Tristane Banon, will file a lawsuit charging the former IMF chief with attempting to rape her, according to her lawyer, by way of Reuters.

A Twitter account belonging to the Fox News network in the U.S. was hacked by a group who falsely declared that President Barack Obama had died.

Britain has pledged to offer £38-million ($61-million) to Ethiopia in order to feed more than one million people who have been devastated by a severe drought.

The Nigerian Islamist terrorist group, which has already wreaked havoc across the country, has killed at least ten people in the northeastern city of Maiduguri by setting off a bomb in a beer garden frequented by soldiers and policemen, according to military officials.

One of the most important regional powers in the Middle East has recognized the Libyan rebels as the legitimate government of that country, giving a potentially fatal blow to Moammar Gaddafi.

Yingluck Shinawatra, the 44-year-old youngest sister of the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, of the Puea Thai Party, is challenging the Democrat incumbent Abhisit Vejjajiva in Sunday’s general polls.

The finance minister of Poland has criticized the European Union (EU) for the way it has handled the Greek financial crisis.

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has shrugged off threats by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi that he will attack Europe and reiterated her demand that he step down from power.

Axel Weber, the former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, will join the board of directors of Swiss bank UBS AG at the next annual general meeting in May 2012, according to a report on Bloomberg.

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) is engaged in preliminary talks to acquire Hulu, the online video company, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, citing unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations.

Thirty years ago this month, the streets of urban Britain exploded with violence. While the UK had seen riots and street demonstrations throughout its long and tumultuous history, the disturbances of 1981 represented something new – for they largely involved the frustrations and anger of Britain’s large immigrant populations.

Kia Abdullah, who periodically writes for the Guardian newspaper, said she felt no sympathy for the three teenaged men who were killed in a bus crash in Tuesday, since they came from comfortable middle-class backgrounds.

Lundbeck, the Danish drug company, said it will restrict the distribution of its Nembutal drug in order to prevent U.S. prisons from using it in lethal injections.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who may soon be a free man after serious questions have been raised about the credibility of the woman who accused him of sexual assault, might be able to enter the 2012 presidential race in France, according to a report in the British paper The Daily Telegraph.

The color red appears to have a long positive association in Russian culture – from long before the rise of Communism.

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior diplomat and scion of the ruling Saudi royal family, told senior NATO officials that Riyadh would not stand idle in the event that Tehran developed nuclear arms, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper of Britain

The leader of the British Labour Party has criticized that strike action that has seriously affected thousands of schools, as well as airports, seaports and other public sector services.