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Chinese dissident Chen Xi has become the second dissident in four days to be jailed for inciting subversions through online essays; he was given a 10-year jail sentence by a Chinese court in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province.

CNN has published court documents from Newt Gingrich's 1980 divorce that contradict his claim that his ex-wife, Jackie Battley, initiated the proceedings.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for a review of the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.

As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost ten years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators.

China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, the nation's biggest dairy firm, said it had destroyed milk found to be contaminated with a cancer-causing substance, the latest food safety problem to hit the country's dairy industry.

Newly emerged Court documents contradict Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's assertion regarding his first divorce. Newt Gingrich who is constantly on fire over his personal history has continuously maintained that it is his first wife Jackie Gingrich, who asked for divorce first and not him. His campaign website under the head Answering Attacks-Personal life says that it is Jackie Gingrich who requested for a divorce, quoting their daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman's ...

Authorities on Monday said that Aliahna Lemmon, the 9-year-old Indiana girl who was missing since last week, has been found dead and her neighbor is expected to be charged with murder on Tuesday.

The first release of Transformer Prime is on the way into the U.S partner stores, and more will be available and shipped as and when possible over the next few weeks as confirmed by a spokesperson for ASUS.

Jennifer O'Neill, 41, alleges that Lady Gaga, 25, owes her hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay. Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, apparently employed O'Neill for 13 months in 2010 as her personal assistant during the pop icon's 2010 Monster Ball world tour.

Investigations into the disappearance of Sky Metalwala, 2, have uncovered photographs of the boy with bruises on his body, along with a suicide note written by his mother, Julia Biryukova, and sent to his father, Solomon Metalwala, as a text message in March 2010.

Controversial Egyptian blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, whose nude photographs shocked her country, has asked those of her countrywomen who wish to remove their veils to send her photographs of their faces, to be published online.

Isobel Narayan, teen-aged daughter of a judge was found dead in her home. The 16-year-old was found by her parents in the bedroom of her family's £400,000 four-bedroom home in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, last Sunday, reports Mirror. The cause of the death is not known and the circumstances also do not seem to be suspicious. However, tests are being carried out to see if her life has been claimed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS).

GoDaddy, a giant domain name registrar, has announced that it is no longer supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act otherwise known as SOPA, which is now making its way through U.S. Congress.

China will try a veteran dissident, Chen Xi, on charges of inciting subversion for pro-democracy essays he published online, his wife said on Sunday, days after another dissident was jailed for nine years on similar charges.

What’s ahead for 2012? Obviously, change, some for the better and others for worse. Fortunately, the Island’s unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent from 7.2 percent a year ago, the state labor department said. But its principal Long Island economist, Michael Crowell, said that may reflect a declining work force, with too many “discouraged workers” who’ve given up looking.

The U.S. Justice Department has rejected the South Carolina voter ID law, calling it discriminatory, citing concerns about the law's effect on African-American voters.

Research In Motion, still smarting over having to change the name of its yet-to-come operating system, faces a similar trademark challenge to its popular instant-messaging service BlackBerry Messenger.

Hasbro has cited trademark infringement in suing Asus over the use of the Transformer name for its Eee Pad Transformer tablets.

Louis Vuitton has filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York after alleging that a hand bag featured in the movie, The Hangover II, is fake.

The Colbert Nation Super PAC Presidential Primary -- can you picture it in big, bold neon letters?

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