One of the most frightening aspects of life in India is the wholesale disregard many people have for baby girls – literally millions have been murdered, often by their own parents.
Palash Ghosh
Jul 07, 2011
Moroccan constitutional reform isn't sitting well with some of the North African nation's activists.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 06, 2011
Congressional Republicans lambasted President Barack Obama for his decision to try a Somali man accused of supporting terrorist groups in civilian court, thus affording him the legal protections of U.S. citizens.
Jeremy White
Jul 06, 2011
Casey Anthony trial verdict has made a majority of those who have been following the trial gasp in shock. Casey Anthony, mother of the dead two-year-old Caylee Anthony, has been found not guilty of murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter, but guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. In fact, even if Casey chooses to make some money by confessing to her crime or write an OJ Simpson-style If I Did It type book nothin...
Amrutha Gayathri
Jul 06, 2011
Casey Anthony trial verdict has made a majority of those who have been following the trial closely, gasp in shock. Casey Anthony, mother of the dead two-year-old Caylee Anthony, has been found not guilty of murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter, but guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer, by the jury. In Casey Anthony's case the verdict has created more questions than answers as the judiciary failed miserably in solv...
Amrutha Gayathri
Jul 06, 2011
For Morocco's Berbers, King Mohammed VI's recent constitutional reforms are nothing but rhetoric. Literally.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 04, 2011
North Africa is not a homogenous bloc of Arab societies, struggling in unison for one pan-Arab cause. U.S. media coverage of the Arab spring in Tunisia and Egypt has largely ignored the mass movement of North Africa's ethnic minorities.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 01, 2011
U.S. Federal Trade Commission will issue subpoenas to Google and other companies as part of an investigation into practices in Google's search engine business.
Ankita Mehta
Jun 24, 2011
The king of Morocco is preparing to introduce a series of constitutional reforms likely in a bid to prevent the kind of massive unrest witnessed across the Arab world and North Africa.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 17, 2011
Emory law student had been arrested in Egypt on spy charges. Ilan Grapel, a U.S. immigrant to Israel, was detained on Sunday in a development that could strain Israel's relations with Egypt's new leaders.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 13, 2011
Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court sharply questioned a county judge's decision to halt a law limiting collective bargaining for public employees yesterday.
Jeremy White
Jun 07, 2011
Turkish political leaders have blasted an editorial in The Economist magazine which called for the country’s voters to support the opposition in this weekend’s election.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 06, 2011
A new law reducing sentences for crack cocaine users should apply to people already in prison for the drug, provided they were not also convicted of a violent offense and did not have an extensive criminal history, Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday.
Jeremy White
Jun 02, 2011
The Dutch government announced today that by end of this year the country's famed marijuana-dispensing coffee shops would start to close to tourists and be open only to Dutch citizens.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 31, 2011
Exactly fifty years ago today, one of the bloodiest dictators of the Americas was assassinated in the DR
Palash Ghosh
May 30, 2011
Members of the House Judiciary Committee said they were skeptical that AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile would benefit consumers, and that they feared it would mean higher prices for wireless service.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 26, 2011
The San Diego wireless company has joined AT&T competitor Sprint in opposing the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 25, 2011
Egypt’s ruling military council released a report on Wednesday that it does not intend to interfere in judicial affairs, denying reports that it might pardon former President Hosni Mubarak.
Ankita Mehta
May 18, 2011
A number of social networking tech companies, including rivals Facebook and Google, are teaming up against a social networking bill in California.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 17, 2011
Facebook and other social network giants are opposing a new Californian bill, which requires all social network websites to make users' information private by default. A spokesman claims that the bill would be a big threat to their businesses.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 17, 2011
Facebook has spent more than $6,600 lobbying California state officials to negate the Social Networking Privacy Act which will impose penalty on social networking sites for displaying personal details of children under 18.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 17, 2011
Led by Senator Al Franken, the Privacy and Technology Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary grilled Google and Apple on privacy.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 10, 2011