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Sipping coconut water and honey, Anna Hazare ended a hunger strike on its 13th day on Sunday, a protest that had sparked huge rallies across the country, exposed a weak government and ushered in a new middle-class political force.

Four woman have pleaded guilty for disfiguring a Banning Peach Queen beauty pageant winner in 2008, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

Libyan forces closed in on Muammar Gaddafi's home town Sunday, vowing to seize it by force if negotiations failed, and their leaders ruled out any talks with the deposed ruler.

President Barack Obama declared August 26 -- the 91st anniversary of the Constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote -- Women's Equality Day in a proclamation on Thursday.

With the Republican campaign for the White House taking shape, hundreds of Tea Party activists kicked off a national bus tour on Saturday, aiming to rally their base and new recruits to the conservative political cause.

A 10-year-old Texas boy died of dehydration after his father and stepmother denied him water over a period of five days as a punishment for wetting bed, Texas police said on Friday.

Samsung Electronics Co. will introduce a new Galaxy smartphone at an industry exhibition in Germany this week and will showcase 4G version of Galaxy S II at IFA electronics beginning this Thursday in Berlin.

A 10-year-old Texas boy died of dehydration last month after his father and step mother kept water away from him for five days as a punishment for wetting his beds, Texas police said on Friday.

Forced medication should be used on Jared Lee Loughner -- the suspect in a shooting rampage that left a congresswoman with brain damage, and six dead -- as he shows increasingly stranger behavior without it.

Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva have reached a final custody and financial settlement in their long-running bitter legal battle, the Los Angeles County Superior Court announced on Friday.

Pitbull's handling it in his style. After actress Lindsay Lohan recently sued him over his song Give me everything, Pitbull has invited her over to Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, where he will be performing the song. Now that is 'Some Big' expectation that the rapper is holding on to.

A Maryland teen from Pakistan is in secret U.S. custody, accused of trying to help recruit terrorists for the Pennsylvania woman known as Colleen Jihad Jane LaRose, according to a source close to the family.

It has been a difficult week in the love lives of TV's Gilbert sisters, with both women enduring breakups of their long-term relationships.

Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend on Friday settled a deeply bitter custody dispute over their young daughter which led to the Oscar winner's plea of no contest to domestic violence earlier this year.

A private detective jailed for illegally intercepting voicemail messages on behalf of a journalist at one of Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids on Friday gave lawyers the names of the people he says ordered him to carry out the phone hacking.

Photographer David Strick lost the first round in his copyright case against the Los Angeles Times, when a federal judge ordered arbitration this week.

Conviction is to be appealed.

The jury in the upcoming involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor will not be sequestered, despite a request by defense lawyers who expect the case to be the most publicized in history.

In mid-August, political operative Karl Rove stoked the flames of hope when he told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he sensed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was faltering in his determination to not make a presidential run.

Taxpayers for Justice, an organization of death penalty opponents is trying to obtain California voters’ support for the November 2012 election. Their main focus is the huge cost of execution on the taxpayers.

Casey Anthony, who was voted as the most hated women in America, has received security measures from the Florida Department of Corrections, according to a probation spokeswoman Thursday.