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MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) is all set to become India's third full-fledged stock exchange as it got license from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to trade in new asset classes, including equities, futures and options and other products.

Most European markets fell Wednesday as investor sentiment remained fragile following concerns of the worsening economic condition in the euro zone to hurt quarterly earnings of companies.

Tonee Walker, the 22-year-old Buxom Bandit who held up a gas station in Australia, has turned herself in to police. Walker gained the Buxom Bandit nickname by taking down the gas station while wearing a low-cut top and showing off her larger-than-life breasts.

The tenants at Fred Wigg filed a lawsuit to prevent the installation, citing, among other things, that they themselves would become the target of terrorists.

The late King Hussein of Jordan titled his autobiography ?Uneasy Lies the Head.? That could be the title Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), the ailing BlackBerry developer, could use for his book, too.

If the Nets can get Howard, will they be better than Miami?

A Texas voter identification law currently being argued in court could rob minorities of their right to vote, Attorney General Eric Holder told the National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesday.

Legendary Filipino comedic actor Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr., better known as Dolphy and the Philippines' King of Comedy, died Tuesday after a four-year battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83.

Thomas Lubanga, a convicted warlord from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Tuesday. Lubanga, who was charged in March for recruiting and using children in his Union of Congolese Patriots militia, became the first person to be sentenced by the International Criminal Court.

Jordan MP Mohammed Shawabka has landed himself into trouble after brandishing a pistol at rival Mansour Seif-Eddine Murad on Thursday during a live TV talk show.

The latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll finds that Obama and Romney are neck-and-neck, tied at 47 percent among registered voters. Neither man has been able to open a significant gap over his rival.

Widespread poverty, an under-educated populace, underpaid police, extensive criminal gangs, vigilante justice, lynchings and corrupt politicians all conspire to make rural Bihar a dangerous place.

The Egyptian parliament convened for less than an hour, Tuesday, in an event billed as an act of defiance against the country's military led Supreme Council, which dissolved the parliament last month after a court hearing.

After tens of thousands of protesters in Mexico City demonstrated Saturday against President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto's victory in the July 1 elections, the leftist opposition party of runner-up candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said it will appeal the results.

Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, her sister, Pippa Middleton, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Vogue's Anna Wintour, Victoria and David Beckham, were some in attendance on the final day at Wimbledon

It is difficult to reconcile the accusations that TomKat was merely a contractual agreement with the way the split has played out so far -- with Cruise convincingly playing the role of the jilted husband and Holmes the long-suffering wife who can't get away from him fast enough. On the other hand, the hasty settlement is more suggestive of a premeditated ending than a knock-down, drag-out fight would have been.

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS is calling for the creation of a national unity government in Mali in order to take urgent steps to confront the terrorist peril in the north of the country.

Amy Senser, the wife of former Minnesota Vikings tight end Joe Senser, was sentenced to 41 months in prison Monday in a Hennepin County courtroom for the hit-and-run death of chef Anousone Phanthavong.

As Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise embark on settlement talks prior to their divorce court hearing next week, a new report has emerged that Holmes will start shooting her next film, where she plays the role of a single mother, Fox News reported.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has rejected two prominent elements of President Obama's health care overhaul, joining an exodus of Republican-led states that are using a Supreme Court decision upholding the law to opt out of some key features.

Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a key witness to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, has agreed to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's new defense team. Rhodes told CNN earlier this year she believed Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone in the assassination of the former U.S. senator.