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Michael Jackson was beleaguered by the pressures of his comeback tour, which forced him to take a desperate action leading to his death, a Los Angeles court was told on the first day of his doctor's homicide trial.

Images of Michael Jackson lying dead in a hospital and rehearsing the day before his death, along with recollections of the singer as a troubled lost boy, made for a heart-wrenching opening on Tuesday to the manslaughter trial of the doctor hired to care for him.

A video that was recorded at the Orange County Jail in December 2008 will be discussed on Wednesday in a hearing at 3 p.m.

As the prosecutors played an incredibly sad tape of Michael Jackson's voice, recorded just weeks before his death, coupled with a photo of his lifeless body, the spectators in the Los Angeles court room looked pained.

A defense attorney for Amanda Knox compared the American student, convicted of killing her British roommate, to Jessica Rabbit in an Italian appeals court on Tuesday.

He was lying dead in a hospital and just one day before his death, he was rehearsing - This is what the images of Thriller singer Michael Jackson told the court on Tuesday, marking a harrowing opening to the murder trial of Conrad Murray, the doctor who was hired to care for MJ.

The first day in the trial of Conrad Murray, doctor to Michael Jackson, for the King of Pop's June 2009 death, began Tuesday, showcasing a shocking photo of Jackson's dead body and a recording of his voice in a drug-induced slur.

Better late than never was how director Roman Polanski summed up his feelings on Tuesday as he received an award from the Zurich film festival two years after being arrested on his way to pick up the prize.

Grim photos of Michael Jackson lying dead in a hospital bed juxtaposed with a picture of the Thriller singer rehearsing the day before his demise brought an emotional opening on Tuesday to the manslaughter trial of the doctor hired to care for him.

Wall Street honchos laugh at the Occupy Wall Street protestors from their spots along the balcony of Cipriani Club Residences.

Under the Saudi’s conservative laws, women needed the permission of a male guardian to work, to marry, to divorce, to travel abroad, and to undergo certain kinds of surgery.

The physician is on trial for the June 2009 death of the late King of Pop.

The Miami Heat’s Big Three of LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh will host and play in a South Florida charity game on Oct. 8.

An Egyptian court said on Tuesday it would review proceedings of the trial of Hosni Mubarak to rule on a request to change the panel presiding over the case of the ousted president, who is charged with conspiring to kill protesters.

Wouter Basson, dubbed Dr. Death faces a medical ethics board this week that could cancel his medical licence for producing chemicals used in numerous crimes.

Amanda Knox, who was convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007, waits for a judge to hand down a verdict in her appeals trial. Knox has been in prison since 2009.

The Obama administration declined to have an appeals court further review a decision on health care reform, which clears a path for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the measure in June.

Georgia officials executed Troy Davis last week for a 1989 murder case that was almost entirely based on eyewitness testimony. Now, more than 20 years later, legal experts say Davis' story is another example in a debate about how reliable are eyewitnesses' testimonies, especially in death penalty cases.

Despite Chris Christie, and those who sometimes speak for him, reiterating his line of not running for president, that, “no means no, and he means it,” that, “short of suicide” he won’t be doing it, speculation has renewed.

More than two years after Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest at his mansion, the doctor who was treating the Thriller singer will come before a jury on Tuesday charged with responsibility for his death.

Student Republicans at the University of California at Berkeley have stirred up the famously left-wing campus with plans for a sale of baked goods priced according to the race and gender of buyers.