A proposal to appoint a Commonwealth human rights commissioner to steer a more proactive rights agenda looks set to test a summit this week as the 54 member nations try to make more of a mark in world affairs.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 26, 2011
Action movie star Sylvester Stallone is accused in a lawsuit of copying another writer's screenplay to make The Expendables, a movie about mercenaries hired to defeat a military dictator.
keep for now
Oct 26, 2011
President Obama told Jay Leno during his visit to the Tonight Show Tuesday that you never like to see anybody come to the kind of end that Muammar Gaddafi did, but that his death sends a message to other dictators.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 26, 2011
The incidents prompted massive protests across the whole of Kashmir, amidst denials by the Indian military.
Palash Ghosh
Oct 25, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried in a secret desert location on Tuesday, five days after the desposed Libyan leader was captured, killed and put on grisly public display.
Jack Kim
Oct 25, 2011
One-tenth of all murders in the country last year were committed by the local police.
Palash Ghosh
Oct 25, 2011
Moammar Gadhafi, who was shot dead last Thursday, was buried in a secret desert location by Libya's interim government on Tuesday morning. He was laid to rest with Mutassim Gadhafi, his son and the former National Security Adviser of Libya.
Daniel Tovrov
Oct 25, 2011
The squabble regarding what to be done to the rotting corpse of the former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has come to an end with the dead bodies of Gadhafi and his son finally being buried in a secret desert grave at an unknown location at dawn Tuesday.
Drishya Nair
Oct 25, 2011
The mystery behind the death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has a new twist, following a leaked video that shows a Libyan freedom fighter claiming he killed Colonel Gadhafi.
Kukil Bora
Oct 25, 2011
Moammar Gadhafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried at dawn Tuesday in an unknown location, ending a wrangle over their rotting bodies, a Libyab official said.
Eric Linton
Oct 25, 2011
Libyan rebels, who captured Moammar Gadhafi from a storm drain outside his hometown of Sirte, allegedly sodomized the former leader with an object just after he was detained.
Kukil Bora
Oct 25, 2011
An autopsy performed on the body of Col. Moammar Gadhafi has confirmed that the former Libyan dictator was killed by a shot to the head. The autopsy was performed by Libya's chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Othman el-Zentani.
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 25, 2011
Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will be buried Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said Monday night, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many to fear for Libya's governability.
Eric Linton
Oct 25, 2011
Moderate Islamists claimed victory Monday in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Muslim parties are challenging for power after the Arab Spring.
Eric Linton
Oct 25, 2011
Anonymous has set its sights on a Web hosting service for refusing to take down child pornography as its next target with its OPDarkNet plan.
John Talty
Oct 24, 2011
While the humanitarian tragedy arising from the quake will not occupy the hearts, minds and bodies of the local population – the longer-term struggle between Kurds and Turks will likely not abate.
Palash Ghosh
Oct 24, 2011
Despite claims by Libya's interim government that dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in crossfire after revolutionary fighters captured him Thursday, a Libyan rebel has confessed on camera to the killing.
Elisha Maldonado
Oct 24, 2011
Members of National Nurses United are rallying outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office after police arrested two nurses and a union organizer at an Occupy Chicago protest in Grant Park on Saturday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 24, 2011
Libya's interim rulers ended the public display of the bodies of Muammar Gaddafi, his son and army chief on Monday after four days in which thousands of Libyans came to see for themselves that the dictator was really dead.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 24, 2011
Moammar Gadhafi's wife is calling on the United Nations to investigate the death of the fighter Moammar and Mutassim.
Daniel Tovrov
Oct 24, 2011
The transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil declared Sunday the end of Libya's eight-month-long war and set out a vision for a post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya that will have an Islamist tint.
Elisha Maldonado
Oct 24, 2011
Moammar Gadhafi's cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, the chief pathologist who performed the autopsy confirmed on Sunday.
Elisha Maldonado
Oct 24, 2011