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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser in the Manhattan sex assault case, the 32-year-old Guinean woman, has come out in public trying to cement the faltering case against the former IMF chief.

Iran has accused the U.S. and Israel for the assassination of an Iranian scientist on Saturday amid growing concerns of Iranian nuclear advancements.

His campaign is taking time to take off and seeing some personnel shake-ups

The Alaskan Pollock widely used in fast-food fish sandwiches will now be used to neutralize toxic lead in residential yards, reports the New York Times.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, took pains to underscore that not only have the debt deal talks resumed, he says all parties are working toward an agreement. Time certainly is of the essence: the U.S. has less than 10 days to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a default.

Norway's Prime Minister has promised to find the guilty and hold them responsible.

A 32-year-old Norwegian man was taken into custody Friday following two attacks on that killed approximately 17 people.

President Barack Obama faces a powerful backlash from his own party for a proposed debt bargain that Democrats see as Obama handing a major victory to Republicans without preserving Democratic priorities.

President Barack Obama, D-Ill. and Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio moved closer toward a landmark debt deal late Thursday -- one that would avoid a U.S. default and implement major tax code changes, if approved. However, aides to both were lowering expectations, given the importance of the talks, so as to not jeopardize delicate negotiations within each caucus.

James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and News Corps' boss in Europe and Asia, has been accused of misleading British Parliament during a high-profile testimony conducted earlier this week. Former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former News International legal manager Tom Crone said they had informed Murdoch about an email that suggested phone hacking was widespread.

The influential realist painter Lucian Freud has died at the age of 88, his New York-based art dealer announced.Freud was best known for stark, realistic and often nude paintings; his subjects were often personal friends or family members.He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.He died of a brief, unspecified illness in his London home.The New York Times described Freud as a bohemian of the old school.Towards the end of his career, Freud's painting began...

In order to prevent unnecessary confusion and disappointment, New York City officials will limit the number of marriages to 764 on Sunday, the first day the state's same-sex marriage law takes effect.

By embracing post-PC era where mobile computing dominates the market, Apple successfully unleashed its latest beast, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

The Gang of Six' debt plan, and President Obama's approval of its outline, has created momentum in Washington for a landmark deficit reduction package that would also avert a U.S. Government default, but two words could sap that momentum in a hurry: Tea Party.

Thanks to persistent Internet demands, old Nickelodeon shows are coming back to the network starting July 25 at midnight on TeenNick.

A study, “Let My Fingers Do the Talking: Sexting and Infidelity in Cyberspace,” by Dr. Diane Kholos Wysocki found that women are more likely to punch their own buttons - on a cell phone that is. The study, conducted in 2009, showed roughly two-thirds of the women surveyed were more likely to send nude photographs or sexually explicit text messages than about half the men surveyed.

London police are still investigating the unexplained death of whistleblower Sean Hoare who was found dead at his apartment on Monday.

Evidence that Casey Anthony ostensibly repeatedly searched the word chloroform on her computer stemmed from a computer flaw, according to a software designer who testified at the trial.

The three-year old revelations of a former executive of Fox News, a New York-based subsidiary of News Corp., suddenly take on a new light.

The deal brings to an end the litigation between recording companies and Baidu over piracy charges

In a significant turnaround in the phone hacking saga, Sean Hoare - who first blew the whistle that the now defunct News of the World editor, Andy Coulson, encouraged phone hacking -- was found dead.

A former News of the World reporter who had substantial knowledge about the scandalous phone tapping which led to the tabloid's demise and the arrest of key editors was found dead in mysterious circumstances.

The three-year old revelations of a former executive of Fox News, a New York-based subsidiary of News Corp., suddenly take on a new light.

Authorities said the circumstances surrounding the death of former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare doesn't appear to be suspicious.

Former News of the World reporter who publicly connected phone hacking claims with his staff has reportedly been found dead.

Sunday's Day 8 of the debt deal talks saw both sides express confidence that a grand bargain deficit reduction package would be reached, even as a parallel camp of lawmakers worked on a last-chance option containing a more-modest reduction; however, there was little new evidence Sunday that a deal was at hand.

Emergency rooms have been seeing a whole new kind of addict lately. Abusers of bath salts become agitated, violent, and psychotic and require, as one might expect, a whole new kind of care.

Forests do a much better job absorbing carbon dioxide than scientists thought, a study in the journal Science shows. The world's forests absorb 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually -- about one-third of the carbon dioxide released through burning fossil fuels each year.

Debt deal talks, Day 6: Unless the Tea Party compromises, a U.S. Government default is likely. For many voters, the Tea Party stance appears extreme, irresponsible, even irrational. But for Tea Party supporters, it’s a logical and necessary stance, when any compromise with a Democratic president is viewed as a defeat.