SEP
23
2011

Brazilian boy shoots, wounds teacher, kills self

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.

SEP
22
2011

Australian actor David Gulpilil sentenced to jail for broom assault on wife

Australian movie icon David Gulpilil has been sentenced to five months´ prison for breaking his wife´s arm.

SEP
22
2011

Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez fined for speeding

Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has been fined £60 after admitting speeding in his Bentley.

SEP
22
2011

Probation ends for Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton is wrapping up a year of probation stemming from a 2010 drug arrest on the Las Vegas Strip.

SEP
22
2011

Niqab women fined by French court

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.

SEP
22
2011

Government to pay compensation to Bloody Sunday families

The government is to pay compensation to the families of those killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday.

SEP
21
2011

Scientists go on trial for failing to warn public about L´Aquila quake

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.

SEP
21
2011

$16 muffins, and taxpayers pick up the ab

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.

SEP
21
2011

Don´t Ask, Don´t Tell repeal goes into effect

After years of debate and months of final preparations, the military can no longer prevent gays from serving openly.

SEP
21
2011

New law bans warrantless cell phone searches

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.

SEP
20
2011

US court rules against Chevron in Ecuador oil case

US court overturned block on Ecuadoreans collecting damages totalling $18.2bn from Chevron over Amazon oil pollution.

SEP
20
2011

Strauss-Kahn denies violence in sex assault cases

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.

SEP
20
2011

Italy´s sovereign debt rating cut by S&P on growth fear

Italy has had the rating of its creditworthiness cut, the latest move in the European debt crisis.

SEP
20
2011

Brazil seeks to help Europe via IMF

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.

SEP
20
2011

Denied mark for ´Tweet,´ Twitter pecks out complaint

The early bird gets the trademark, a lesson Twitter Inc. is learning the hard way.

SEP
19
2011

Don´t mess with Dilma

A woman is president in booming, macho Brazil. And she´s calling all the shots.

SEP
19
2011

Brazilian police arrest suspects in Amazon murders of environmentalists

Two held over killings of José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, who were dedicated to saving the rainforests.

SEP
19
2011

Sony asks gamers to sign new terms or face PSN ban

Sony is preparing to ban gamers from the PSN unless they waive the right to collectively sue it over future security breaches.

SEP
19
2011

Obama deficit plan to call for $1.5tn in higher taxes

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.

SEP
19
2011

Obama signs patent reform Act

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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