The defense began its case Tuesday in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who, according to the prosecution, is complicit in the killing of hundreds of protestors during last year's uprising against his regime.
Rescuers resumed a search of the hulk of a giant cruise liner off the west coast of Italy on Monday after bad weather forced them to halt operations, but hopes were fading of finding more survivors.
Internet giants Google and Facebook told the Delhi High Court on Monday that it is not possible for companies to block offensive content that appears on their websites, in a case that has stoked fears about censorship in the world's largest democracy.
The 2012 Golden Globe Awards was a night to remember. Hollywood's crème de la crème were out in full forced, dressed to the nines and ready to celebrate some of the most noteworthy works of the year. Here is a look at Sunday night's red carpet best dressed and complete winners list.
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.
We're presuming now that some of the people we met on the boat didn't make it. As the Costa Concordia, one of a line of luxury Italian cruise ships, sank into the Mediterranean, Seamus and Carol Moore prepared for the possibility that they would die. Read their harrowing story of the sinking of the Costa Concordia, which many are already comparing to the sinking of the Titanic, here.
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.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race, trouncing Newt Gingrich and gaining momentum in his march toward the party's nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
Mohamed ElBaradei pulled out of the race for the Egyptian presidency on Saturday, with the Nobel Peace Prize winner saying the previous regime was still running the country, which has been governed by army generals since Hosni Mubarak was deposed last year.
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.
Apple revealed its closely guarded list of global suppliers for the first time and vowed to deal with worker abuses, hoping to deflect criticism it was turning a blind eye to cases of poor working conditions in a mostly Asian supply chain.
Hunter Harrison engineered a turnaround at Canadian National Railway by making his trains run on time, like dictator Mussolini promised for Italy, calling even low-ranking employees if a screen mounted in his office pointed to a problem.
Stephen Colbert, the satirical Comedy Central host, has shown interest in potentially making a bid for the White House. On Thursday, he moved one step closer to becoming a candidate.
Though already declared legally insane, Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik will under go a new court-ordered psychiatric evaluation.
It appears Indian politicians do not really have a funny bone after all. They do not appear to be able to tolerate jokes made at their expense and circulated on the Internet. A court in the country threatened, on Thursday, to block social networking Web sites like Facebook and search engines like Google, unless they failed to crack down on offensive content, according to a BBC report. Specifically, the Delhi High Court said: Like China, we will block all such websites.
The government is abruptly arguing that the same-sex marriages of many foreigners who wed in Canada are not valid, a move that stunned the gay community and could affect thousands of couples.
More than six years after Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba, an Alabama judge will declare the missing student dead at the petition of her father.
Joran van der Sloot, 24, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the 2010 killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino, The Associated Press reported.
Willow Smith, the 11-year-old daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, shocked fans on Tuesday when she tweeted a photo of herself dancing on a stripper pole in Las Vegas.
A Cleveland couple, Monica Hussing and William Robinson Sr., pleaded guilty to attempted involuntary manslaughter on Monday, after failing to seek medical care for their ill son, William Willie Robinson Jr., 8, who suffered from a common, treatable form of cancer, Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro Tuesday blasted the proposed Stop Online Privacy ACT (SOPA) pending in the U.S. Congress as “terrible,” a “threat to innovation” and potentially destructive legislation.
Alison Fournier, a New York investment banker, is planning to sue Starwood Hotels chain over a sex assault involving drunken man that entered her hotel room in Finland last year.
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