A study conducted by researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that the levels of trans-fatty acids in some Americans decreased by a...
February 9, 2012 12:27 GMT
The UK opened the world’s biggest offshore wind farm on Thursday, with Energy Secretary Ed Davey inaugurating the 367-...
February 9, 2012 11:55 GMT
Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet leader, said on Thursday he thinks Vladimir Putin has “exhausted” his role as Russia’s leader,...
February 9, 2012 11:38 GMT
New York – With the backing of the United Nations, a Swiss Judge is braving the opposition of the entire Cambodian legal establishment to pursue investigations of...
February 9, 2012 11:17 GMT
The European Central Bank (ECB) kept its benchmarch interest rate on hold at a record low of 1 percent on Thursday, as policy makers waited to assess whether the euro bloc...
February 9, 2012 10:51 GMT
Five banks have agreed to pay $26 billion to help the nearly 2 million homeowners who were hit by foreclosures and mortgage troubles when the housing bubble crashed,...
February 9, 2012 10:28 GMT
Authorities in the Maldives have issued an arrest warrant for Mohamed Nasheed, the country's former president who resigned earlier this week in what he claims was a coup...
February 9, 2012 10:00 GMT
Badar Mansoor, the most senior Pakistani in Al Qaeda who reportedly sent militants into Afghanistan and ran a training camp in Pakistan’s north-west, was killed along...
February 9, 2012 10:08 GMT
Greece today agreed to austerity measures demanded by the "troika" - the European Union, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund - after reaching an...
February 9, 2012 9:17 GMT
Credit Suisse, one of Switzerland’s largest banks, reported its first quarterly loss in three years on Thursday as...
February 9, 2012 9:14 GMT
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel ground to a halt for the second day on Thursday due to a general strike initiated by the country's largest trade union. Half a million...
February 9, 2012 8:53 GMT
Baltasar Garzon, the Spanish judge famous for pursuing high-profile war criminals, has been convicted of ordering...
February 9, 2012 8:07 GMT
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iraq has executed at least 65 prisoners in the first 40 days of 2012, including 34 in one day, ...
February 9, 2012 4:01 GMT
The authorities are investigating the dispatcher's handling of the call in which a visitation supervisor was seeking help before Puyallup, Washington father Josh Powell...
February 9, 2012 3:37 GMT
The US Navy and researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are investigating the claims that a 200-year-old shipwreck found lying just off Rhode Island is the...
February 9, 2012 3:02 GMT
Airport security lines may get a lot shorter at another 35 US airports after the TSA extend a pilot program that removes some of the more annoying vestiges of the post-9/11...
February 9, 2012 2:53 GMT
The United Nations chief, Ban Ki-moon, says the Arab League has asked for UN help...
February 9, 2012 2:23 GMT
Teen pregnancy rates in the US have hit a 40-year low, according to a new study.
However, black and Hispanic teens experiencing pregnancy and abortion rates two to...
February 9, 2012 1:12 GMT
An Australian gay couple had their 6-year-old son taken from them by child protection authorities in Los Angeles while the FBI and Australian police investigate claims they...
February 8, 2012 23:07 GMT
Talks aimed at approving a bailout package for Greece were held up early Thursday after leaders of the three parties backing the country's coalition government failed to...
February 8, 2012 22:45 GMT
Another Tibetan self-immolated today in China, bringing the total number of people to 20 in the past year who have taken the drastic steps to protest Chinese rule and support...
February 8, 2012 20:34 GMT
Prince Harry passed his Apache helicopter pilot training with flying colors, ...
February 8, 2012 20:07 GMT
Washington lawmakers have legalized same-sex marriage, making it the seventh state to allow gay couples to marry,...
February 8, 2012 19:24 GMT
Exact replicas of human brain cells with Parkinson's disease have been created by scientists from the University of Buffalo, a huge step towards finding a cure,...
February 8, 2012 19:38 GMT
Afghan government officials remained skeptical about reports that over 20 children have died in refugee camps from the cold,...
February 8, 2012 19:05 GMT
As the West tightened sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program this week, Israel’s President Shimon Peres appealed to Iranians to look beyond the current crisis....
February 8, 2012 19:04 GMT
Diamond Foods Inc. has removed its CEO and CFO and will restate its earnings for 2010 and 2011 following the discovery of payments to walnut growers that were improperly...
February 8, 2012 18:18 GMT
A judge today sentenced Alyssa Bustamante, the teenager who strangled and stabbed her 9-year-old neighbour to death, to life in prison.
Bustamante was 15 when the...
February 8, 2012 17:59 GMT
A survey released today by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys reveals that almost half of US bankruptcy lawyers have seen a significant increase in the...
February 8, 2012 18:01 GMT
Donald Trump, infamous businessman and host of “The Apprentice,” said on Wednesday he would be willing to discuss a future position in the cabinet of Mitt Romney...
February 8, 2012 17:54 GMT
US officials in Texas today announced prison terms of up to six years for nine local men and women convicted of buying guns for the feared Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas while...
February 8, 2012 15:58 GMT
The Ninth District Court of Appeals ruled California's controversial Proposition 8 unconstitutional on Tuesday. After garnering 52 percent of the votes, Proposition 8 was...
February 8, 2012 17:27 GMT
The death toll from the sinking of an overloaded boat of Dominican migrants rose to 47 on Wednesday evening, after rescue workers recovered 22 more bodies from the sea.
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February 8, 2012 17:01 GMT
A sex-trade worker is suing a Vancouver businessman after their night of debauchery went wrong, a Vancouver newspaper reported.
Kayla Reinfjell said David Ho wouldn...
February 8, 2012 16:54 GMT
One of the girls who accused Los Angeles teacher Mark Springer of sexual assault has recalled her statements,...
February 8, 2012 16:58 GMT
A crying shame for 16,000 ice skating enthusiasts.
Organizers of the famed Eleven Cities Tour decided today...
February 8, 2012 16:58 GMT
Violence escalated in the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, the fifth day it has been bombarded by tanks in its streets,...
February 8, 2012 16:39 GMT
A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that Hanjuan Jin, a Chinese-born ex-Motorola engineer, is guilty of stealing trade secrets but not of economic espionage against the...
February 8, 2012 15:59 GMT
In 50 million to 200 million years, Asia and the Americas will merge and form a supercontinent reminiscent of Pangaea,...
February 8, 2012 16:10 GMT
The ballet corps at Milan’s famous La Scala theater today rejected allegations from a former prima ballerina that eating disorders were rampant among its...
February 8, 2012 15:21 GMT
NEW YORK — Housekeepers in New York City hotels will be given personal panic buttons, a provision that comes shortly after the incident when a maid claimed Dominique...
February 8, 2012 15:18 GMT
Train commuters in Michigan will now be traveling at 110 MPH, as the first expansion of regional high-speed trains outside the northeastern United States began on Tuesday....
February 8, 2012 15:19 GMT
How did Rick Santorum celebrate the biggest night of his political career? How else, he went to church.
The morning after victories in Missouri, Minnesota and...
February 8, 2012 14:35 GMT
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed overwhelming support from Americans of...
February 8, 2012 14:35 GMT
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will return to his home state of Georgia next week, his campaign announced today,...
February 8, 2012 14:14 GMT
The United States and Japan are renegotiating the terms of a controversial 2006 agreement, and plan to move thousands of US Marines from Okinawa,...
February 8, 2012 13:54 GMT
The Canadian government encouraged its spy agency to use information extracted through torture,...
February 8, 2012 13:49 GMT
An Al Shabaab suicide attack killed at least 11 and injured dozens more today in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
Police spokesman Abdullahi Barise said the attacker...
February 8, 2012 13:27 GMT
The US government is may cut the size of its embassy in Iraq, which is the largest and most expensive diplomatic mission,...
February 8, 2012 12:41 GMT
Republican senators today blasted the Obama administration’s decision on contraceptive coverage, making the issue the next fight in the politically volatile...