Conrad Murray, the doctor accused of involuntary manslaughter in the Michael Jackson death, returned to court Monday. A judge is deciding whether he can practice medicine as he awaits trial.
Yes, Butler is the sentimental favorite heading into tonight's NCAA championship game against Duke. But as an Indiana school, it has a long basketball history.
Unvarnished, a controversial new 'people review site,' allows users to anonymously publish critiques of others' workplace performances. Critics cite concerns about defamation and libel.
The new American nuclear strategy will narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons, with the exception of “outliers like Iran and North Korea.”
AP - The Obama administration is adopting a new policy limiting the circumstances under which the U.S. would use nuclear weapons, keeping with the president's pledge to give the nuclear arsenal a less prominent role in U.S. defense strategy.
AP - The government accused Toyota of hiding a "dangerous defect" and proposed a record $16.4 million fine on Monday for failing to quickly alert regulators to safety problems in gas pedals on popular models such as the Camry and Corolla.
Pakistani militants launched a front assault on the American consulate in the frontier city of Peshawar today, firing rockets, exploding massive bombs and trying but failing to breach the compound's heavily fortified security. At least two local security guards were killed in the attacks, but no Americans suffered more than light wounds, according to two U.S. officials in Pakistan.
"It is a miracle in China's mining rescue history," said Luo Lin, who heads the government agency in charge of work safety.
He was part of an army of 3,000 personnel mobilized by Chinese authorities for a round-the-clock operation to rescue 153 miners who got trapped in a flooded mine in north China's Shanxi province.
Their efforts paid off today with the "miracle rescue" of 115 miners. The miners were already in their eighth day underground when rescuers were finally able to reach them. They had been trapped since March 28 when workers digging a tunnel broke into an abandoned shaft filled with water.
China's state-run television showed live images of the rescuers in tears, cheering and hugging each other as the survivors were brought out one by one in stretchers, wrapped in blankets and loaded into waiting ambulances.
The rescue teams had been pumping water out of the mine for days. When the water level finally dropped to a certain point, the rescuers were able to enter the pit on rubber rafts, going through the murky waters in the narrow, low-ceilinged passageway.
They managed to pull out the first nine survivors early Monday morning, prompting the state broadcaster to break into unprecedented live reports from the mining area. Before noon, there was a sudden surge of good news as more rescues were broadcast live on national television.
NATO has launched yet another investigation into the deaths of five Afghan civilians killed during a botched nighttime raid in February, after a separate Afghan Interior Ministry investigation of the incident found possible evidence tampering by U.S. and Afghan troops involved in the shooting.
The news comes a day after NATO reversed itself, following weeks of denials, and admitted that its forces had been responsible for the civilian deaths that resulted from the mistaken targeting of a compound by a U.S-Afghan military team searching for insurgents.
The death toll from Monday's mine explosion rose to 25 early Tuesday, and rescue efforts at the Raleigh County, West Virginia mine were suspended, officials said.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking a record fine of $16.4 million against Toyota Motor Corp. for failing to notify the agency of a "sticky pedal" defect in its cars for at least four months.
One of two photojournalists killed in a 2007 attack by a U.S. helicopter gunship in Iraq was being rescued when the gunship's crew fired on the van to which he was being carried, according to footage posted online Monday.
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