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The public website of the Central Intelligence Agency went down on Wednesday evening as the hacker group Lulz Security said it had launched an attack.

Hacker group LulzSec is relentlessly continuing its attack: the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) i.e. www.cia.gov was hacked by the group and taken down temporarily on Wednesday even as the U.S. Senate said it had foiled a renewed hacking bid by the same group.

Lulz Security or LulzSec, the hackers collective, claimed responsibility for disabling the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) public website on Wednesday, two days after hacking the U.S. Senate's computer system.

The month of May was the video game industry's worst since October of 2006.

Commodities trader Glencore is not considering a bid for embattled miner ENRC, its chief executive said, dismissing reports of a takeover after it disappointed the market with its maiden first-quarter results.

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert took a shot at Lebron James after James lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks.

From South America to Oceania to Africa, here's everything you need to know about the 2011 Ski Season in the Southern Hemisphere!

Prosecutors say Casey Anthony killed her toddler on June 16, 2008 so she could live the good life, free of the responsibility of parenthood.

The Dow and S&P 500 closed out their sixth week of losses on Friday as further signs of a global economic slowdown set the stage for more losses to come.

Planking, the international phenomenon that started in England and spread to Asia and Australia, has come to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Police Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to shut down red-light traffic cameras at 32 intersections, saying it costs too much and doesn't reduce safety.

Internet users reported that Google's Gmail service was down for at least a few minutes on Wednesday morning around 10:45 a.m. EDT.

OPEC talks broke down in acrimony on Wednesday without an agreement to raise output after Saudi Arabia failed to convince the cartel to lift production.

Sarah Palin's latest comments on American history got the Jon Stewart comedy treatment on Monday after accusations over the weekend that she had gotten basic knowledge about American history wrong and her insistence that she was right.

Pop star Rihanna's latest video, 'Man Down' has sparked a controversy involving explicitly violent and raunchy videos being broadcast on television, uncensored, as the Parents Television Council (PTC) appealed to the BET (Black Entertainment Television) network to ban the video. The video, premiered on BET last Tuesday, shows Rihanna murdering a man near a crowded railway station in what looks like a premeditated event. As the video progresses in flashback, Rihanna is seen sexually assa...

The Syrian government shut down most of its Internet services on Friday as protests against President Bashir al-Assad increased.

Boeing Co will lay off about 510 employees in its Space Exploration division as the United States' space shuttle program draws to a close.

Rihanna's 'Man Down' isn't her first video to stir controversy. She's had several videos that have created waves due to their lyrics or innuendos, though none have sparked as much criticism as her latest video 'Man Down' which has created a tsunami of controversy.

Wall Street closed out a fifth week of losses with more selling on Friday after a gloomy jobs report strengthened the case the economy was slowing, though analysts said indexes may finally stabilize in the near term.

Shares of U.S. staffing and jobs services companies fell on Friday after a disappointing jobs report showed far fewer new jobs were created last month than economists expected, adding to recent evidence the U.S. economy has hit a soft patch.

Parents and media watchdogs are upset over Rihanna's new music video of the song Man Down, wherein she shoots a man dead for raping her. The video aired this week on BET.