Dubai struggled to ease fears of debt default on Thursday after its move to delay repayments at two flagship firms shook market confidence.
Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, a probe concluded Thursday.
Italy PM Berlusconi's estranged wife is seeking $65 million a year in alimony in a divorce case after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal.
Legislators upset with Governor Mark Sanford's lam to see his lover in Argentina began a months-long process that could ultimately remove the Republican from office.
The Oprah Winfrey Show" will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said Thursday night.
French President Sarkozy has posted on Facebook a photo of himself chipping away at the Berlin Wall, which triggered intense debate over its veracity.
US President Barack Obama's half brother, who has lived in Shenzhen for the past seven years, launched his memoir Wednesday.
Japanese actress Noriko Sakai Monday pleaded guilty to drug use and prosecutors sought a prison sentence in a trial that has caused a media frenzy.
The death of Jeffry Picower, accused of profiting more than $7 billion from Madoff's investment schemes, will make it more difficult for suing investors to recoup their money.
This year's Tokyo Motor Show is a lonesome affair for the Japanese, with foreign automakers largely no-shows for the first time in decades.
The Billionaires Club of India almost doubled from last year to 54 members up from 27, aided by a rebounding stock market that gained two-thirds in the past year and an economy growing at six percent, said the Forbes Asia magazine on Thursday.
Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal, who is just 56 centimeters high, is thought to be the world's smallest living man.
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