Mining and exploration company Straits Resources and its partner Argonaut have lost a court appeal to explore an area in South Australia that they believe holds huge copper and gold resources, the companies said on Monday.
The embattled Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani has apparently offered to resign.
Following 10 years of renovation and remodelling of the one of the most popular parts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the newly designed American wing has finally opened its doors for art connoisseurs across the globe.
The arrest of a Northern California high school teacher for sexual abuse of a 14-year-old male student has raised questions about the boundaries of behavior and whether schools should police social media contact between teachers and students, authorities said on Friday.
Brian Austin Green and wife Megan Fox are doing just fine, thank you. But the former Beverly Hills, 90210 actor does have beef with one of his ex-girlfriends.
Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Bud Selig said Saturday he was counting on the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers to be sold by April 30.
Iran's effort to recover some $1.75 billion frozen in a U.S. bank faces a new obstacle due to a law President Barack Obama signed last month, potentially further squeezing Tehran's economy and exacerbating tensions between the two countries.
Actress Mena Suvari has filed for divorce in a Los Angeles court after just 18 months of marriage to concert promoter Simone Sestito.
Richard O'Dwyer, 23, a British student, could face a prison sentence in the U.S., for something which isn’t even an offence under British law, after losing an extradition appeal on Friday.
A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by a trade group representing major U.S. airlines to block a $3.4 billion loan-guarantee package to help Air India buy dozens of planes from the Boeing Co.
A Japanese banker who is a key figure in the Olympus Corp. accounting fraud came into public view for the first time since the scandal broke, appearing on Friday at his divorce hearing in a Florida court.
A Japanese banker who is a key figure in the Olympus accounting fraud came into public view for the first time since the scandal broke, appearing on Friday at his divorce hearing in a Florida court.
A judge ordered an 84-year old billionaire to jail on Thursday after finding him in contempt for failing to complete a construction project at Detroit's Ambassador Bridge, the busiest crossing between the United States and Canada.
Art Laffer is named in a lawsuit from a group of investors who say he lent his name to investment funds that ran a Ponzi scheme through a talk radio business.
One-time presidential candidate and former Democratic Senator John Edwards suffers from a heart condition which led a judge on Friday to delay his trial on charges of violating campaign finances laws.
Canada will plug a loophole in its marriage laws that left foreign gay couples in a legal limbo, able to marry in Canada, but in a union that might not be legal, and perhaps without the ability to divorce.
For addicted reddit users -- sometimes referred to as redditors -- that's a hard pill to swallow -- half a day without the front page of the Internet, the social news Web site where registered users submit content so other users to vote it up, or down, and chime in with insight that is typically informative but almost always interesting, to say the least.
Dutchman Joran van der Sloot was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Peruvian Stephany Flores, a woman he met at a Lima casino.
A group that represents CEOs of major U.S. corporations, including Citigroup, defended the SEC's settlement with the financial giant that allowed the company to avoid admitting any liability or wrongdoing in a securities fraud case.
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman suspected in Natalee Holloway's disappearance, was sentenced to 28 years in prison Friday for murdering a Peruvian woman.
Rumors of reconciliation between Chris Brown and ex-girlfriend Rihanna, have been circulating since the start of a Twitter exchange between the exes a week ago, but a new report from Life and Style magazine suggests the former couple have been meeting in person.
A German Catholic priest admitted in court Thursday to 280 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys in the past decade, adding that he didn't think he was doing anything wrong.