U.S. NAVY

Judge Kenneth R. Lester, Jr., has taken over as the new presiding judge in the trial of George Zimmerman, who faces a second-degree murder charge for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Livingstone, a self-described Socialist who has often been at odds with the mainstream Labour Party, has a history of espousing far-left views.

The FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list got a bit of a shake-up today when alleged child pornographer Eric Justin Toth was added to the list. So how does a fugitive make it on the list?

The Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) received a $1.05 billion, five-year contract from the U.S. Navy to provide more than 200 digital cockpits for two of the armed service's helicopter series.

The F/A-18D Hornet crashed Friday into an apartment building in Virginia Beach, Va., near Naval Air Station Oceana. Both of the aviators aboard the jet ejected before the crash. No deaths have been reported, but three residents of the Mayfair Mews complex for the elderly are considered missing.

Three wives and two elder daughters of Osama bin Laden have been sentenced to 45 days of jail time by a Pakistani court. They were also fined 10,000 rupees each. The women will serve just 14 more days before being deported back to their home countries.

At a time when the US job numbers have started to improve, the looming cuts in defense budget can play spoilsport. The Pentagon said last week thousands of jobs can be lost across the defense industry if lawmakers do not act decisively to ensure that the possible $500-billion cuts are prevented.

Returning from humankind's first solo dive to the deepest spot in the ocean, filmmaker James Cameron said he saw no obvious signs of life that might inspire creatures in his next "Avatar" movie but was awestruck by the "complete isolation."

"Titanic" film director James Cameron has completed the world's first solo dive to the deepest known point on Earth, reaching the bottom of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench southwest of Guam in a specially designed submarine.

The U.S. Navy is dedicating researchers and engineers to creating the next generation of machines: the grenade throwing robot.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Friday threatened that it would attack the Pakistani government, military and police officials if Pakistan didn't release the three widows of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

One late-night visit by the FBI was all it took for the notorious hacker known as Sabu to switch sides and become a valued snitch.

One of the world's most-wanted hackers secretly became an FBI informant last year, providing evidence that led to charges on Tuesday against five other suspected leaders of the Anonymous international hacking group.

Adding fuel to speculations that Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden's body has not been buried at sea (as claimed by the Obama administration), there are now leaked secret emails released by Wikileaks that suggest that the world's most wanted terrorist's body was shifted to the military mortuary in Dover. Osama-Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy seals in a Special Forces Operation on May 2nd at his Abbottabad compound in Pakistan. Post his death, first of all, there were no pictures released...

Beijing to raise its military budget by 11.2 per cent for 2012, a move that will worry its neighbours Japan, India and other southeast Asian nations.

The squad who went to demolish the al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden's Abbottabad building in Pakistan, has discovered Bibles from the building.

Hinting at the possibility of a military strike, the Pentagon is bolstering the U.S. defenses in the Persian Gulf as a preemptive measure to counter any attempt by Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz.

Eva Longoria, Rahm Emanuel and Kal Penn are among 35 national co-chairs that have been selected for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

Here is a roundup of the recent military movements in the region involving Iran, U.S., Israel, NATO and Saudi Arabia.

Get some! shouts a young man as he jumps out of an airplane circling the skies above Hollywood, Calif. The gentleman falling from the sky is a NAVY SEAL, and he's giving his best effort to raise attention given to the pseudo-propagandist film, Act of Valor, which hits theaters on Feb. 24. Act of Valor, a story about U.S. Navy Seals, is acted out by real NAVY SEALS, and accordingly, real NAVY SEALS parachuted into the premier Monday night.

Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the U.S. Navy can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region said Sunday.