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Chinese luxury home buyers are leading a legion of cash-rich non-UK investors in search of upmarket London homes, with demand driven by currency exchange rates that produce discounts of up to a quarter on purchase prices, research shows.

Jon Corzine has resigned as MF Global Holdings Ltd's chairman and chief executive officer four days after the futures brokerage filed for bankruptcy protection, culminating a rapid downfall for one of Wall Street's best-known executives.

Judge William Adams will not be charged for physically abusing his daughter Hillary Adams, police said on Thursday.

The exact nature of the sexual harassment allegations that have rocked the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's election campaign, is most likely to be revealed Friday as the unidentified accuser's lawyer has filed a statement with the National Restaurant Association.

Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams who was secretly videotaped beating his daughter Hillary seven years ago won't face any charges because the statute of limitations have passed.

The business mogul and his wife are among Scotland's wealthiest couples

Actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been sentenced to serve 30 days behind the bars, pulled massive crowds to the premises of the Los Angeles Superior court where the judge Stephanie Sautner pronounced the sentence.

Missing baby Lisa Irwin's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, continue to maintain that baby Lisa disappeared from their home nearly a month ago. Not only are police stumped by what really happened to missing 11-month-old baby Lisa Irwin, but the media and the public have become increasingly confused by the events that have unraveled this month. Take a look at this timeline to see what really happened this past month in an effort to find missing baby Lisa Irwin.

Erin Holdsworth, the 28-year-old woman recently arrested for driving drunk and leading Ohio police on a 120 mph wild chase while wearing only a G-string, fishnet stockings and stiletto heels, hid inside a car instead of appearing in court on Wednesday.

A New Hampshire man convicted of breaking into a car argued that unreliable eyewitness evidence should have been blocked from his trial, even without police interference.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a federal agency's decision to fine CBS Corp television stations $550,000 for airing singer Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei vowed on Wednesday to fight tax evasion charges to the death, a day after the government ordered a company linked to him to pay 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in back taxes and fines.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose activities have angered the U.S. government, should be sent to Sweden from Britain to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, the High Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting his appeal against extradition.

One of the former National Restaurant Association employees who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment wants to tell her side of the story publicly, and her lawyer is trying to waive a confidentiality agreement so that she can do so.

The U.S. unemployment rate for September was 9.1 percent, but the full story of who works in America isn't told through the numbers alone.

Occupy Wall Street has raised more than $500,000 in New York alone to support anti-greed demonstrations and, seven weeks into the movement, protesters are finding that having money creates headaches.

Comedian insists we have to stand up and say no

New York lawyer Joe Tacopina announced Tuesday that a Kansas City lawyer, John Picerno, would be added to the team of attorneys assisting missing baby Lisa Irwin's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin. Cyndy Short, the previous local counsel, was asked to leave the investigation late last week.

Following her divorce, Kim Kardashian emerged at LAX airport, head bowed, looking sullen as she escaped from a large media crowd, but behind her large black sunglasses is a woman with an eye for business.

U.S. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs exploited a lawless platoon culture when he directed plans to execute innocent Afghanistani civilians and disguise the killings as combat engagements, prosecutors charged at the start of Gibbs' court martial.

Conservatives are likening the allegations against Herman Cain to the treatment U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received during his 1991 confirmation hearings.