Here is a brief rundown of important events around the world Monday morning, August 22, 2011.
Video calling firm Skype, which is being acquired by software giant Microsoft, has bought GroupMe, a provider of mobile group messaging services, for less than $100 million.
Prosecutors, of the sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, are likely to drop the charges because of lack of evidence on the part of the accuser and alleged backing of political link ups
Internet voice and video calling giant Skype has agreed to acquire New York-based start-up GroupMe, a move that will let the company get into group messaging service.
Kim Kardashian is now Mrs. Humphries. The reality star married NBA player Kris Humphries on Saturday night and according to details revealed by E! Online and Us magazine, it was indeed a fairytale weeding.
Britain's Andy Murray won the Cincinnati Open Sunday when his opponent in the final, Serbia's world number one Novak Djokovic, retired injured.
Russia's Maria Sharapova beat Serbia's Jelena Jankovic 4-6 7-6 6-3 to win the Cincinnati Open on Sunday and install herself as one of the favorites for the U.S. Open.
Three generations of women from one New York City family died after their SUV flipped several times on I-95 in eastern North Carolina, authorities said on Sunday.
A study that evaluates sci-fi scenarios for extraterrestrial encounters, published in the journal Acta Astronautica, said that E.T. could decide whether we're a threat to intergalactic order and may try to kill us. At the heart of these scenarios is the possibility that intrinsic value may be more efficiently produced in our absence, the researchers wrote.
For about two dozen documentary filmmakers, the road to Oscar just might begin in a small West Hollywood multiplex and a downtown New York arthouse.
When news came that the West Memphis Three would be freed on Friday, documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger and his collaborator Bruce Sinofsky dropped everything and flew down to Arkansas.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday reiterated the nation's call for Iran to immediately release U.S. citizens Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, two hikers who were sentenced to eight years in prison, after being imprisoned for more than two years for allegedly trespassing into Iran, which they deny.
Kim Kardashian's wedding on Saturday night to NBA star Kris Humphries was just spectacular.
With the global economy sputtering and financial markets on the rocks, the world needs reassurance the U.S. central bank stands ready to save the day.
Manhattan prosecutors are likely to ask a judge on Tuesday to drop all or some charges in the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
A hint of QE3 could usher in a very explosive global equity rally.
In early summer, before layoffs began sweeping across Wall Street, billboard-sized photos of employees were plastered on the walls, pillars and elevator banks of Credit Suisse Group AG's offices in the United States and abroad.
Kim Kardashian married Kris Humphries on Saturday in a fairytale wedding and details of the ceremony have emerged.
A new study that says 13 percent of all mobile phone users fake talking or being busy on their phones to avoid having to interact with people around them isn't such big news. I assumed the number was much higher. But that's what the numbers show, anyway. A report published this week by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project found that 83 percent of American adults own some kind of cell or mobile phone and that more than one in ten fake using it so they don't hav...
Thousands of people came out on Saturday to pay their last respects to megachurch pastor Zachery Tims during a funeral service on Saturday. The service was held at the First Baptist Church of Orlando, not Tims' home church, but one that was large enough to hold the crowd that gathered.
With a $99 price tag, Hewlett-Packard's WebOS TouchPad joined Dell Streak 5 in the tablet graveyard after just seven weeks on shelves, and given the weak sales of many other players, it looks like similar deaths are bound to follow.
American Mardy Fish came back down to Earth on Saturday, losing his Cincinnati Open semi-final to Britain's Andy Murray just a day after he had beaten world number two Rafa Nadal.
