Former Nabors Industries Ltd. CEO Eugene Isenberg has turned down a golden parachute worth $100 million and $7 million in deferred bonus payments following criticism that his...
February 6, 2012 21:01 GMT
February 6, 2012 20:51 GMT
The New York Times reported that the American...
February 6, 2012 20:05 GMT
Some 3,500 soldiers clashed with Brazilian police, who have been on strike outside the assembly in the state capital of Salvador since last week,...
February 6, 2012 19:49 GMT
Verizon Communications Inc. and Coinstar Inc., which operates Redbox DVD rental kiosks in supermarkets and gas stations across America, announced today that they have teamed...
February 6, 2012 19:27 GMT
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is keeping a closer eye on “sovereign citizen” extremists,...
February 6, 2012 18:49 GMT
Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, has become the first business leader to join a national campaign for same-sex marriage,...
February 6, 2012 18:04 GMT
Italy announced today it was taking emergency measures to keep the country warm while Europe’s cold snap disrupts Russian gas supplies to Italy.
Claiming that...
February 6, 2012 17:23 GMT
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles elementary school will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday as authorities investigate a sex abuse scandal involving two teachers.
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February 6, 2012 17:40 GMT
Though details remained scarce, The Associated Press said today that...
February 6, 2012 16:42 GMT
Greece announced today it would slash 15,000 public-sector jobs as part of new austerity measures required to secure credit from international lenders,...
February 6, 2012 16:16 GMT
Jose Luis Mendez, a Puerto Rican fisherman, survived 20 days lost at sea,...
February 6, 2012 16:24 GMT
Amazon is planning to open a store in the Seattle area this year, breaking away from the online world, according to reports from...
February 6, 2012 15:13 GMT
Joe DeSantis, Newt Gingrich's communications director, has come under fire for making significant changes to Gingrich's Wikipedia page,...
February 6, 2012 14:25 GMT
A British court today granted bail to a Muslim cleric described as one of Al Qaeda’s main operatives in Europe,...
February 6, 2012 14:11 GMT
February 6, 2012 13:59 GMT
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have stepped up the pressure on Greece to accept the painful terms of a new EU/IMF $171 billion rescue...
February 6, 2012 14:04 GMT
A dam in Bulgaria broke on Monday from days of heavy rain and melting snow, causing a flood to rip through a village along the Greek border, killing at least eight people and...
February 6, 2012 13:07 GMT
Georgia’s Supreme Court struck down a state law that restricted assisted suicide on Monday, causing criminal charges against four members of an assisted suicide network...
February 6, 2012 12:37 GMT
Ian Paisley, the former Northern Ireland first minister and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, has...
February 6, 2012 12:21 GMT
Somalia is evicting thousands of squatters who live in government buildings, BBC News reported today.
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February 6, 2012 12:21 GMT
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order placing new sanctions on Iran, including on its Central Bank,...
February 6, 2012 12:23 GMT
Catholic leaders from around the world gathered in Rome on Monday for a Vatican summit on how the church could end sexual abuse of children by priests,...
February 6, 2012 11:44 GMT
The 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the central Philippines on Monday left at least 53 people either dead or missing and other residents fleeing after a tsunami alert was...
February 6, 2012 11:20 GMT
Alberto Contador, the three-time Tour de France winner, is set to lose one of his Tour titles after an appeal court ruled on Monday that he had used a performance-enhancing...
February 6, 2012 11:14 GMT
Russian scientists have reportedly become the first humans to reach Lake Vostok, an ancient formation buried deep under Antarctic ice.
"Yesterday, our...
February 6, 2012 11:02 GMT
Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who admitted to killing 77 people in Norway on July 22 last year, said in court today that he deserved a medal of honor,...
February 6, 2012 10:12 GMT
Google and Facebook have removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders, in compliance with an Indian court directive issued during an ongoing...
February 6, 2012 8:14 GMT
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Scientists have discovered fossils in Namibia that they say are the world's first animals.
The sponge-like fossils dubbed...
February 6, 2012 9:08 GMT
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United States ordered the closure of its embassy in Syria on Monday, just two days after it failed to pass a resolution condemning the violence...
February 6, 2012 8:50 GMT
Josh Powell, a suspect in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan Cox-Powell, sent an email to his attorney on Sunday that said, "I'm sorry. Goodbye."
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February 6, 2012 8:05 GMT
At least four people have been killed and dozens trapped in rubble after a three-story factory collapsed in eastern Pakistan on Monday.
A gas explosion inside the...
February 6, 2012 6:45 GMT
A poll released Monday put Barack Obama in the strongest position yet when matched up against Mitt Romney,...
February 6, 2012 4:34 GMT
Emil Boc, the prime minister of Romania, has resigned after three weeks of street protests against his...
February 6, 2012 3:58 GMT
February 6, 2012 3:29 GMT
Activists in Syria say government security forces this morning launched a fresh bombardment of the central city of Homs, with at least 12 people killed,...
February 6, 2012 1:45 GMT
Eli Manning and the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 on Sunday to win Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
It went as you might expect, and many...
February 5, 2012 20:37 GMT
The United States hinted at an international coalition on Syria following a United Nations attempt to end nearly 11 months of bloodshed was vetoed over the weekend,...
February 5, 2012 22:28 GMT
China’s air carriers are formally banned from paying charges on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union, the official Xinhua news agency...
February 5, 2012 21:33 GMT
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is on Monday to mark her Diamond Jubilee, or 60 years to the...
February 5, 2012 21:05 GMT
MELBOURNE (Australia) – Thousands of people have been evacuated from the parts of the eastern Australian state of Queensland, where river heights are threatening to...
February 5, 2012 20:26 GMT
In what is supposed to be the dead of winter for the Northern Hemisphere, the first-ever tropical disturbance to threaten the Florida coast on a Super Bowl Sunday has formed...
February 5, 2012 20:00 GMT
A female Saudi Arabian activist has stepped up pressure on the country’s religious authorities to overturn the ban on women driving.
Manal al-Sherif...
February 5, 2012 18:26 GMT
Supposed militants in Nigeria today claimed responsibility for an attack on an oil pipeline in the Niger Delta that is owned by the Italian company...
February 5, 2012 17:47 GMT
French pilots, cabin crew and other airline workers have announced they will begin a four-day strike on Feb. 6 to protest a labor reform currently being considered by...
February 5, 2012 17:29 GMT
NEW YORK – In a tell-all memoir due out on Wednesday, a former White House intern describes losing her virginity to former US President John F. Kennedy in 1962 and...
February 5, 2012 16:26 GMT
Manuel Noriega, the notorious Panamanian dictator, is in hospital today to treat hypertension and an apparent stroke, the...
February 5, 2012 16:21 GMT
Iran will target any country used as a launch pad for attacks against the Islamic Republic, a Revolutionary Guard commander warned Sunday.
"Any spot used by the...
February 5, 2012 16:15 GMT
A 50-year-old recording of civil rights leader Malcolm X delivering an address to a mostly white audience at Brown University has been...
February 5, 2012 15:20 GMT
Eight sailors have been discharged from the Navy over a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship,...
February 5, 2012 15:25 GMT
A Libyan military court in the former rebel stronghold of Benghazi today started and then adjourned for ten days the trial of 41 suspected loyalists to deposed leader Muammar...