The United Nations estimates that 5,000 people each year are murdered in so-called honor killings. So what are honor killings and why do they happen?
Four British men admitted to planning a bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange, saying that they were inspired by American-born al-Qaeda radical Anwar al-Awlaki.
With Carmelo Anthony back on the court, the Knicks win, playing maybe their most complete game of the year. Rangers lose on a bad bounce, says head coach John Tortorella. The Nets have a good chance against the Pistons.
Federal prosecutors expanded their insider trading case against former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta on Tuesday, saying the illegal activity lasted longer and involved more trades than alleged.
Sandusky's attorney said he would vehemently oppose the motion to use an outside jury.
CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Les Moonves testified that the network would have paid millions more than NBC for the TV rights for the Golden Globe Awards.
A former Los Angeles-area elementary school teacher has been charged with lewd acts on children, including putting cockroaches on students' faces and offering them a spoonful of what may have been semen, authorities said on Tuesday.
Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach accused of sexually abusing young boys, will learn the names of his 10 accusers by Friday.
Prosecutors in California say a 15-year-old boy who had returned home after running away to Occupy Oakland, strangled his foster parents and stuffed their bodies in a car. He will be tried as an adult.
Hundreds of Nepali girls set to take part in the rite that weds them to the god Vishnu over the coming month, a symbolic time of weddings according to tradition in this Hindu nation.
Mohammad Shafia -- found guilty of the honor killing murders of his three daughters on Monday -- will keep his millions of dollars in real estate holdings and personal wealth while serving a life sentence.
As it prepares for one of the biggest IPOs ever, Facebook is coming under the same fierce attacks being waged against other big technology companies: patent lawsuits.
As part of an undeniable war on Christianity, New York City is set to evict 17,000 churchgoers who use schools as a place of worship. (As if eliminating any reference to Christmas was not bad enough.)
Apple beat Samsung twice Jan. 31, and a German court found the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 mimicked the iPad 2 just a little too much, banning them from store shelves completely. Samsung is not worried about the ruling because they already designed the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, a device that complies with the copyright infringement ruling and is sold throughout Germany, an Associated Press report said.
The user data of Megaupload, one of the world's leading file-sharing Web sites before it was shut down, won't be deleted at least for two weeks from now.
Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is in trouble as one of the authors of the hit song Eye of the Tiger has sued him for copyright violation.Gingrich has been using the Eye of the Tiger song from Rocky III as his campaign theme anthem since 2009. The lawsuit claiming copyright violation was filed by Frankie Sullivan for his Rude Music Inc., which owns the copyright.
Pinkberry co-founder Young Lee on Monday pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from a confrontation with a panhandler that police say ended with Lee hitting the man with a tire iron.
Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be a guest character and voice on animated TV comedy The Simpsons, playing a neighbor of the family after they move from their home in fictional Springfield.
South Korean retailer E-Land Group confirmed on Tuesday it is part of a consortium that is among short-listed bidders in the auction for bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, a move that could help it expand further in the sportswear business.
Allen Stanford, charged with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, sought to have a Antiguan regulator with oversight of his offshore bank dismissed after she rejected a number of the Texas financier's overtures to work together, she testified on Monday.
SOPA is gone for now (until someone re-introduces it), but ACTA and OPEN are two other anti-piracy measures written in the spirit of SOPA. ACTA isn't a proposed U.S. law, however. It's an international treaty already signed by several countries including the U.S. OPEN, on the other hand, picks up right where SOPA took off.