Facebook's Zuckerberg starts China visit
2010-12-20 17:09:11
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started his visit to China with a tour of the offices of the country's top search engine.
Teenage solo sailor reaches St. Maarten
2010-12-20 09:52:21
A 15-year-old Dutch sailor on Sunday completed the longest leg so far of her attempted circumnavigation of the globe, saying it felt "really weird" to be back on dry land after nearly three weeks out in the ocean.
WikiLeaks' Assange says fears US extradition
2010-12-18 11:58:11
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that he was the target of an aggressive US probe and feared extradition to the United States was "increasingly likely".
Japanese man stabs bus passengers; 14 hurt
2010-12-17 21:15:10
An unemployed man stabbed and beat up students and other passengers on two public buses outside a Japanese train station Friday in a rampage that injured 14, police said.
CNN's Larry King exits after 25 years
2010-12-17 11:18:43
Larry King pulled the curtain down on his CNN talk show on Thursday after 25 years.
Wikileaks' Assange walks free on bail
2010-12-17 09:30:39
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was released on bail Thursday - confined to a supporter's 600-acre estate but free to get back to work spilling US government secrets on his website.
Girl killed gay man in 'Clockwork Orange' attack
2010-12-16 21:29:25
An 18-year-old girl was facing jail on Thursday after being found guilty of a homophobic attack which one witness described as being like something out of the film "A Clockwork Orange".
Mom shot at strip mall to protect son, 2
2010-12-16 17:41:00
A mother loading her 2-year-old son into an SUV used her body to protect the toddler before she was shot and killed in an ensuing midday gunbattle at a Sacramento strip mall, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.
Seoul court upholds verdict of clone scientist
2010-12-16 14:08:06
The Seoul High Court on Thursday upheld an earlier fraud conviction of Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning scientist who was once considered a national hero for his work on stem cells and for producing the world's first cloned dog.
Belgium's cutting edge 'mad hatter'
2010-12-16 08:03:45
In Belgium, the country of surreal art and comic books, mad hatter Christophe Coppens is perfectly cut out for his part as designer of fantasy headgear for the likes of pop star Rihanna, and milliner to the king.
Zuckerberg, Time's Person of the Year
2010-12-16 06:32:48
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of The Facebook social networking site that has more than half a billion users, was named Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year on Wednesday.
Madoff won't attend son's funeral
2010-12-14 06:43:48
Imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff won't seek to attend his son's funeral out of consideration for the privacy of his son's wife and four children, his lawyer said Monday.