POLITICS

Disgraced French politician and former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn has launched a $1 million countersuit against the New York City hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault a year ago.

A secret video of Buddhist monks drinking, smoking and playing high-stakes poker circulated the Internet and Korean television networks, stirring controversy in South Korea where gambling is illegal and prompting six leaders from the Jogye Order to quit. However, new information emerged on Tuesday that two unidentified monks also paid for sex during a night of drunk follies.

Kanye West will join girlfriend Kim Kardashian, appearing in several episodes of this season's Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim revealed to E! on May 14.

Estrella Carrera, a 26-year-old new bride, was found stabbed to death in her bathtub this past weekend in Chicago while still wearing her wedding dress days after her nuptials.

Shahin Najafi, an Iranian rapper living in Germany, has a $100,000 bounty on his head after Islamist website Shia-Online.ir issued a 'fatwa' for a controversial song he released that criticizes the Islamist Republic.

Playboy is sparing the world further exposure to the 'Tanning Mom' Patricia Krentcil after the publication said it won't let the tanorexic New Jersey mother to pose nude on its pages.

A sexy photograph of Madonna posing topless in bed while smoking a cigarette sold for $23,750 to an anonymous buyer. Check out the photo here--do you think it's worth that much?

Ugandan officials have captured Caesar Acellam, a top commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army Saturday, dealing another blow to the increasingly weak militant group.

Murdered veterans' advocate April Kauffman was remembered as a selfless woman during her funeral Monday morning as detectives continued their investigation into who killed the 47-year-old New Jersey woman.

The most popular baby names of 2011 are out, with Jacob holding its place as the top boys name for another year and Sophia taking over from Isabella as the most popular girl's name, according to the Social Security Administration.

Northern Chile, was rocked by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake Monday in the strongest temblor to hit the South American nation since a 7.1-magnitude quake hit the country's central region on March 25.

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan will be called before a Senate committee on May 23 to talk about the investigation into the prostitution scandal in Colombia that rocked the agency last month.

Fire crews in Arizona spent the weekend battling five wildfires that burned nearly 6,000 acres and forced the evacuation of some residents. The fires are the first for the 2012 wildfire season.

Aimee Copeland, a University of West Georgia student who contracted necrotizing fasciitis after she cut her leg in zip-line accident, will likely lose her fingers to the flesh-eating bacteria.

Captain Paul Watson, founder of the nonprofit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and subject of the Animal Planet reality show Whale Wars, was arrested by German officials in Frankfurt this weekend.

Explosives planted on a bicycle killed nine people in the relatively peaceful Faryab province of northern Afghanistan on Monday, including a provincial council member, police said, amid an increase in violence across the country.

Fifteen passengers died on Monday when an aircraft carrying 21 people crashed in a mountainous terrain of Northern Nepal while attempting to land at an airstrip, authorities said.

The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City has spewed huge plumes of ash and fiery rocks Saturday night, terrifying local villagers and forcing a local airport to close down.

Chris Brown and Rihanna's messy relationship has been unraveling in public for months as the two jump from collaborating on songs to tradings barbs online.

You may have watched the movie Snakes On A Plane and this classic action flick has served as an inspiration to many criminals and drug dealers around the world to smuggle illegal substances, valuable properties, living beings and rare species. Here is a slideshow which will take you on a ride to several ridiculous methods adopted by smugglers.

The Duchess of Cambridge has again surprised her royal fans at a star-studded gala dinner Friday night with her dress code and fashion sense. Kate Middleton often looks pretty when she steps out, but when she arrived for the Our Greatest Team Rises event on Friday night to celebrate Team GB and Paralympics GB at the Royal Albert Hall, in central London, she looked stunning in a beautiful Jenny Packham gown from the Spring 2012 collection.

A calico lobster that has been living a quiet life off the coast of Maine until it was caught and sold to a local fish restaurant. However, a sympathetic staff decided to save the rare lobster with orange and yellow spots that researches claims is 1 in 30 million specimen.

Shock waves were sent through a small New Jersey city after April Kauffman, a former radio host and champion of veterans' causes, was killed in her house as an arrest appears likely to be made soon.

H&M has officially apologized after their new swimsuit ads featuring a too-tanned Isabeli Fontana angered cancer groups in Sweden.

Authorities are investigating how kidnapping suspect Adam Mayes managed to elude them for two weeks and whether he had help doing so.

Jimmy Kimmel awarded Tanning Mom the Mom of the Year award on his show. Then, there was a memorable acceptance speech.

A tip from a concerned citizen led the authorities to where the fugitive, Adam Mayes, shot and killed himself as his kidnapped victims, who have been held captive since April 27, watched.

Not sure where to take your mom for Mother's Day this Sunday? Well Hooters has the answer. Take your mamma to one of over 400 locations in the country and she'll get ten free boneless wings with her choice of sauce.

Rather than deal with business, directors of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, have been busy all week in the ?resume embellishment? scandal that forced one director to quit and put the CEO under a cloud.