A British woman convicted of insurance fraud with her husband for faking his death in a canoe accident has offered to repay nearly 600,000 pounds (about $990,000), lawyers said yesterday.
Michael Jackson's private family funeral was fit for a king and had a price tag to match: roughly $1 million, according to court documents released Tuesday.
After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post as he struggles to deal with heavy government oversight and restrictions on what the bailed-out company wants to pay employees.
French President Sarkozy has posted on Facebook a photo of himself chipping away at the Berlin Wall, which triggered intense debate over its veracity.
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday. Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 pm at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, prison spokesman Larry Traylor said.
A 21-year-old college dropout won the World Series of Poker early yesterday, completing the biggest comeback in the tournament's history to earn an $8.5 million jackpot.
A woman expelled for wearing a mini-dress that caused a near riot at a Brazilian college and made her an Internet sensation said all she wants is to go back to school.
Unless Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002.
Rihanna joined U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, British fashion designer Stella McCartney and nine others on Monday to be honored as "Women of the Year" after the R&B singer took a public stand on domestic violence
Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.
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