Michael Lewis, best-selling author of The Big Short about the mortgage meltdown, has been sued for defamation by an asset manager featured in the book.
Bahrainis campaigning for democratic reforms in the Gulf Arab state staged a protest outside the U.S. ally's parliament building on Monday, demanding that all its members resign over protester deaths.
Smarting from criticism that some of its top officials have had too cozy a relationship with foreign despots, the French government said it is sending medical aid via airplanes to Benghazi in eastern Libya to help groups opposed to Moammar Gaddafi.
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The full text of resolution 1970 (2011) adopted by the UN Security Council on Feb. 26, 2011 imposing sanctions on Libya.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution to impose sanctions against the Gaddafi-led Libyan government and initiate a probe against the bloody crackdown of anti-government protesters.
World number three Novak Djokovic crushed top-seed Roger Federer in straight sets to secure the Dubai Championships title on Saturday.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, mired in a prostitution scandal, faces a tax fraud trial on Monday, the first of four court cases that will bring his legal woes back into the spotlight over coming months.
Government forces shot dead at least two protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, television stations reported, as a popular uprising against Muammar Gaddafi closed in on his main power base.
A former public relations employee has sued Publicis Groupe SA for $100 million, saying the French advertising company discriminates against women in pay and promotions. Women make up 70 percent of the company's public relations staff but hold only about 15 percent of leadership positions, the lawsuit says.
The blog of a college student from Saudi Arabia charged with planning terrorist attacks is a combination of occasional political tracts, mundane daily life, musings on the nature of existence and even poetry.
China has blocked a microblog search of the name of the U.S. ambassador after he was seen near a pro-democracy gathering, the latest in a series of run-ins between a possible U.S. presidential candidate and the Communist Party.
Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi allegedly ordered the 1998 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, the North African country's ex-justice minister is quoted as saying by a Swedish newspaper.
A Saudi college student was arrested in Texas yesterday and charged with planning terror attacks in the United States.
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Top-seed Roger Federer and Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic overcame tough opening sets to reach the semi-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Thursday.
Emboldened by the pending repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell law, President Barack Obama, and his top legal official, have concluded that in two pending cases, the Administration will not defend a federal law that defines marriage as being the union between one man and one woman.
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi launched a counter-attack on Thursday, fighting fierce gun battles with rebels who have threatened the Libyan leader by seizing important towns close to the capital.
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An Iraqi immigrant, who ran over his daughter in his car and assaulted her boyfriend's mother in a case billed as honor killing, has been convicted of second-degree murder by a Phoenix jury.
An appellate court in Texas has affirmed the dismissal of a defamation suit filed by an Austin-based neurosurgeon against a local television station, ruling that accurate and fair reports on third-party allegations do not amount to defamation.
