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Since the financial crisis, laws have changed to better regulate financial institutions. However, they don’t go far enough and there are still unresolved issues, said Professor Joseph Stiglitz in an interview with IBTimes.

Potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin wrote the following letter on her Facebook page, expressing her solidarity with the union movement, but warning of the need to make sacrifices.

The trial of Mark Ciavarella, a former Pennsylvania judge who has been charged with racketeering, fraud, money laundering, extortion, bribery and federal tax violations, drew to a close on Friday with the jury returning a guilty verdict.

The largest solar flare in several years has disrupted some communications, though it was not in the right position to create auroral displays visible from lower latitudes.

The jury deliberations in the trial of Mark Ciavarella, a former Pennsylvania judge who has been charged with racketeering, fraud, money laundering, extortion, bribery and federal tax violations, will resume on Friday.

A video made by compiling several images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the powerful flares that erupted earlier this week.

The fate of Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., a former Pennsylvania judge who has been charged with racketeering, fraud, money laundering, extortion, bribery and federal tax violations, lies in the hands of the 12-member jury, who began their deliberations Wednesday.

The strongest solar flares seen in several years are sending a mass of charged particles towards the Earth, which could cause radio interference and auroral displays.

One of Watson's collaborators, Eric Nyberg from Carnegie Mellon University, shares the robot's strengths, weaknesses and its future.

The most energetic solar flare in five years is expected to unleash a powerful magnetic storm that will come down to Earth on Friday, said a media report.

Nir Rosen - a Left-wing journalist and fellow from the NYU Center of Law and Security - has used this incident to spew his personal venom against Logan on Twitter, calling forth widespread condemnation

The Egyptian army, praised for overseeing a mostly peaceful revolution, is running into a storm of wage and subsidy demands overtaking pressure for democracy and piling more burdens on an already teetering economy. That has already happened in Tunisia, where strikes and protests continue more than a month after citizens ousted their strongman president and galvanized Egypt's opposition forces to do the same with theirs last week.

Egypt's military said on Tuesday it hoped to hand over to an elected government in six months, while the Muslim Brotherhood said emergency law should be lifted and political prisoners freed now.

Billy Ray Cyrus speaks out about his daughter's destructive behavior and blames her TV show Hannah Montana.

The Badgers upset the Buckeyes in Madison

On the last day of January, a crowd of 600 gathered in sub-zero temperatures on Moscow's Triumph Square and began to chant Freedom! Freedom! and call for the resignation of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Flood and storm-battered northern Australia is likely to suffer more frequent weather extremes, according to a study of coral cores that reveal a centuries-old climate record for the region.

About a quarter of Australia's sugar cane crop may have been destroyed after Cyclone Yasi tore through key growing areas, with the damage exacerbating already tight global supplies and helping push U.S. futures to three-decade highs last week.

Getting a head start in a $30 million Lunar race, Pittsburgh-based company, Astrobotic Technology, has already booked a ticket to the moon on SpaceX.

Egyptians staged one of their biggest protests yet Tuesday demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down now, their wrath undiminished by the vice president's announcement of a plan to transfer power.

Egyptians staged one of their biggest protests yet on Tuesday demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down now, their wrath undiminished by the vice president's announcement of a plan to transfer power.