Model Naomi Campbell tells a court she was given "dirty stones" soon after dinner with ex-Liberian head Charles Taylor, accused of using "blood diamonds" to fund a war.
South Korea has 4,500 service members from all military branches engaged in five days of anti-submarine drills. North Korea has threatened to retaliate.
An agreement could lay the foundation for a tiered system in which companies would pay to move their content faster, ending the policy of net neutrality and eventually leading to higher fees for consumers.
Appeals court judges and the justices at the Supreme Court could find themselves boxed in by Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s opinion striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriages.
Prosecutors may be able to corroborate Lance Armstrong’s use of performance-enhancing drugs without relying on an account provided by Floyd Landis, an admitted doper.
In Tuesday’s primary election nearly three-quarters of all those casting ballots registered their opposition to the federal mandate that all citizens buy health insurance.
AP - A judge struck down California's same-sex marriage ban as an unconstitutional violation of gay couples' civil rights, but a pending appeal of the landmark ruling could prevent gay weddings from resuming in the state any time soon.
AP - BP planned to start pumping cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following up on a key development in the effort to kill the well when mud that was shoved in successfully held back the flow of crude.
Naomi Campbell told an international tribunal that she received a gift of " small dirty looking stones" that turned out to be diamonds from men she believed to be representatives of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, who is now on trial for war crimes at The Hague. She had previously told ABC News that she never received a diamond from Taylor.
A Brazilian goalie, his lover and his wife were among nine people charged with the murder of his former girlfriend who had been trying to prove he had fathered her son.
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