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Stocks around the world tumbled Friday ahead of crucial US jobs figures, continuing a losing streak reminiscent of the aftermath of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008.
A Swedish man was arrested after he tried to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen and documented his efforts on the Internet.
Former Beatle Paul McCartney said Thursday he would contact police over his ex-wife's claim that the couple had been spied upon by a British newspaper.
A French court on Thursday ordered an investigation into new IMF chief Christine Lagarde's role in a much-criticized $400 million arbitration deal in favor of a controversial tycoon.
Sonia Gandhi, India's ruling Congress party head and the country's most powerful politician, has undergone surgery in the United States for an undisclosed medical condition
In an interview with BBC's "Newsnight" program Wednesday, the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney claimed that in 2001 she was called by a senior editorial figure with the Trinity Mirror group of newspapers about a fight she'd had with McCartney, her then-boyfriend.
US President Barack Obama will be treated to a White House party for his 50th birthday and get away with friends and family to the Camp David presidential retreat for the weekend.
Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith have been picked to receive honorary Oscars.
Running a real estate business in the middle of a building boom is one thing. Running a country that's embroiled in a bloody political crisis may be a little more challenging, as Thailand's Yingluck Shinawatra is about to discover.
Former President Hosni Mubarak was flown to Cairo Wednesday for the start of his trial on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters.
British police arrested a former senior figure at Rupert Murdoch's News International group on Tuesday as part of their probe into phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid, media reports said.
A British court has freed on bail a teenager accused of acting as spokesman for computer hacking groups LulzSec and Anonymous.
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