A German artist planned to strangle two live puppies to death during an art show at a theater in the Spandau district of Berlin. An administrative court judge has ordered him to not go through with the violent act, saying that it would violate Germany's animal protection laws.
As of this Knicks-Heat halftime report, New York is playing much better than it did in the first game of their series. But the question on the minds of Knicks fans everywhere is whether the team can pull off a win in Miami tonight.
A federal judge Monday blocked a Texas law that booted Planned Parenthood from receiving state funding under a women's health program.
Google Inc and its board were sued on Monday by a shareholder who wants to block the company's stock split plan because it entrenches the Web search company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to court documents.
Yet another conservative state has rejected personhood legislation, which would outlaw abortion by declaring fertilized embryos have the same rights as living human beings.
An 18-year-old man dressed in a cow cuit lugged 26 gallons of milk out of a Wal-Mart without paying for them. To boot, the thief crawled on all fours out of the store.
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom Schmitz, has won back $750,000 in assets after a New Zealand court hearing. The money, which was technically Schmitz's in the first place, had been confiscated by New Zealand authorities after he was arrested on charges of money laundering, racketeering and copyright infringement in relation to the MegaUpload enterprise.
Goldcorp Inc, Canada's No. 2 gold miner, said environmental permit approval for its El Morro copper-gold project was suspended by the Supreme Court of Chile.
Hugh Billington, a British man who drove a fuel tanker into his estranged wife's house causing it to set fire, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
Keeping up an old tradition, Germany has threatened to boycott the upcoming Euro 2012 soccer tournament in protest of the imprisonment and alleged mistreatment of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
After initiating a hunger-strike in early February, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja along with 20 other jailed opposition activists will have his case re-tried.
Jeremy Lin is looking to play in the Knicks series against the Heat.
Fewer undocumented immigrants stopped for traffic violations will face deportation, under newly unveiled changes to a prominent immigration enforcement program.
Sarkozy linked the publication of the document to the imminent elections.
Terry Jones, the right-wing US pastor who made headlines by staging a Koran-burning ritual in 2011, torched copies of the holy book Saturday in a bid to have a Christian clergyman released from prison in Iran.
Knicks rookie Iman Shumpert tore his ACL in game one of the Knicks first round playoff series with the Miami Heat.
Rafael Nadal beat David Ferrer in straight sets to win his seventh Barcelona Open and maintain his clay-court form ahead of a potential tussle with Novak Djokovic at the French Open next month.
An Australian court has ordered fast food restaurants chain Kentucky Fried Chicken to pay $8.3 million to the family of an Australian girl who was paralyzed and was left with severe brain damage after eating a twister wrap at a KFC restaurant near Sydney.
The Dutch courts have decided to impose a ban preventing foreign tourists from buying marijuana from cafe shops.
David Dalton, was said to have withdrawn his role as defense attorney for GCW in January. According to The St. Louis website, Dalton is said to be back as defense counsel.
Jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko continues a hunger strike to protest prison abuse while doctors say she also suffers from a chronic back condition that is unable to be treated in Ukraine.
The first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on an Arizona immigration law critics say will lead to racial profiling of Latinos. She didn't lose the plainspoken, blunt tone she is known for.
