Serena Williams suffered her first-ever first round defeat in a grand slam as she lost in three sets to Virginie Razzano.
The notable and flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been sentenced in Southern California to 104 hours of community service and three years of informal probation after he was convicted of contempt for failing to pay the proper amount owed in child support.
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has been pretty uncommunicative ever since the details of his flashy Singapore lifestyle, along with the renouncing of his American citizenship, made news headlines. But that all changed recently when Zuckerberg's former business partner, now a newly made billionaire thanks to the Facebook IPO, sat down for an interview with a magazine from his family's native Brazil.
An atheist and agnostic group in North Dakota won the right to sue over a decades-old Ten Commandments display in Fargo.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) arrested two men Monday evening in connection with an alleged terror plot, who have suspected links to the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell to a new low following its $16 billion May 17 initial public offering.
Air India has decided not to take the delivery of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner planes until both parties agree on the terms of compensation for a delay in delivery, says India's Aviation Minister Ajit Singh.
U.S. District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein, 90, best known for settling the Agent Orange cases stemming from the Vietnam War, was honored as grand marshal of the Memorial Day Parade at home in Great Neck, N.Y. Monday.
The Golden Gate Bridge -- across the Golden Gate Strait between San Francisco and Marin County -- was a larger-than-life engineering project undertaken against dangerous odds, and it opened 75 years ago on Sunday against vehement protest, at the cost of 11 lives.
Where to watch live coverage of day one of the French Open, plus a look at the matches to watch out for.
New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli renewed his call on Friday that Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), the second-largest oil company in the U.S., settle its legal battle against a multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador, to avoid further damaging its reputation and shareholder value.
Ex-porn star Jenna Jameson was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) after a car accident on Friday morning in Orange County.
In the past week, Roger Goodell has been named in two high profile lawsuits involving players.
Two laws preventing the federal government from recognizing and providing benefits to same-sex couples are unconstitutional, a federal judge in California ruled.
Louisiana residents are set to vote on a constitutional amendment that would roll back the state's ability to regulate the carrying of concealed weapons.
After winning three titles on clay this year, Nadal heads to Roland Garros as favorite, but without the long-enjoyed air of invincibility.
The meeting with officials from the Indian Pilots' Guild (IPG) lasted 90 minutes.
Sharon Stone's former live-in nanny is suing the actress for insulting her Filipino heritage with derogatory comments.
Sandusky's charity began the process of closing on Friday.
For more than three decades law enforcement officials and the nation wondered what happened to Etan Patz, the 6-year-old who disappeared in his SoHo neighborhood while on his way to the school bus stop on May 25, 1979.
A Facebook friend request set the wheels in motion for Brian Banks to be cleared of rape 10 years after he was accused by former high school classmate Wanetta Gibson and had already spent five years in prison.
Hustler's publisher, Larry Flynt, offered a second response in regard to a lewd photo of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp published in his raunchy men's magazine. But Flynt's defense of that's satire did not sit well with the ladies of The View, who took offense to the misogynistic and graphic digitally-altered photo.
