Administrators of Michael Jackson's estate are temporarily authorized to reopen for business and negotiate, among other things, agreements relating to the singer's ill-fated "This Is It" concert tour.
Steven Rattner will leave as head of the US autos task force, which oversaw bankruptcies at General Motors Corp and Chrysler Group, at a time when a probe into how the private equity firm he co-founded gained New York pension business has intensified.
After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark's faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart.
Bernard Madoff blamed for what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history arrived Tuesday at a prison in North Carolina to begin a 150-year sentence in a cell with two bunk beds, a toilet and a sink.
A New York lawyer was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for financial fraud, following arch swindler Bernard Madoff's imprisonment of 150 years last month.
Japan's ruling party rejected a no-confidence motion Tuesday against the prime minister's Cabinet, but an increasingly bold opposition used the occasion to heap criticism on the government it aims to oust in national elections next month.
US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Regina Benjamin, a family physician from Alabama, to be the next surgeon general, the country's top physician.
The son of a late San Francisco pornography mogul was being held without bail Monday on suspicion of killing his former girlfriend, authorities said.
Retired auto worker John Demjanjuk was formally charged yesterday with 27,900 counts of acting as an accessory to murder - one for every person who died at the Nazi death camp where he is accused of serving as a guard.
Four years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation, his original glass-topped casket has been found in a rusty shed at a suburban cemetery.
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