Brazilian authorities say a 10-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher with a pistol, then killed himself with two bullets into his head.
Australian movie icon David Gulpilil has been sentenced to five months´ prison for breaking his wife´s arm.
Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has been fined £60 after admitting speeding in his Bentley.
Paris Hilton is wrapping up a year of probation stemming from a 2010 drug arrest on the Las Vegas Strip.
Two French Muslim women who continue to wear the full-face veil in defiance of a new law banning it in France have been issued fines by a court.
The government is to pay compensation to the families of those killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday.
A group of Italian scientists went on trial yesterday accused of manslaughter for playing down the risks before an earthquake in L´Aquila in 2009 that killed more than 300 people and razed the medieval city to the ground.
The Justice Department on Tuesday came under criticism for "extravagant and potentially wasteful" spending on conferences at the end of the Bush administration and early in the Obama administration, including paying $16 per muffin and $8 per eight-ounce cup of coffee at certain events.
After years of debate and months of final preparations, the military can no longer prevent gays from serving openly.
If you get arrested in California for any reason, the photos, e-mails and other personal data on your cell phone are now a bit safer from prying police eyes. A new law now requires law-enforcement officers in that state to obtain a warrant before searching the cell phone of a person placed under arrest.
US court overturned block on Ecuadoreans collecting damages totalling $18.2bn from Chevron over Amazon oil pollution.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn broke his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a "moral failing" he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television Sunday that no violence was involved.
Italy has had the rating of its creditworthiness cut, the latest move in the European debt crisis.
Brazil will propose that it and other large emerging market countries make billions of dollars in new funds available to the International Monetary Fund as a way to help ease the crisis in the euro zone, an official said on Monday.
The early bird gets the trademark, a lesson Twitter Inc. is learning the hard way.
A woman is president in booming, macho Brazil. And she´s calling all the shots.
Two held over killings of José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, who were dedicated to saving the rainforests.
Sony is preparing to ban gamers from the PSN unless they waive the right to collectively sue it over future security breaches.
President Barack Obama will call for $1.5tn in tax increases mostly targeting the wealthy over the next decade as part of a plan to cut the U.S federal deficit by $3tn, administration officials said.
Today, September 16, 2011, President Obama signed H.R. 1249, the "Leahy-Smith America Invents Act" passed by the Senate, 89-9, the week before.
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