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Casey Anthony murder trial is scheduled for a half-day of testimony on Wednesday, the day 25since the trial began on May 24 at the Orange County Courthouse, where Judge Belvin Perry presides.

The RCMP has confirmed it is looking into allegations about the Harper government's controversial spending for the G8 summit last year in Huntsville,Ontario.

Today it is expected that President Barack Obama will order 10,000 US Troops back home from Afghanistan.

Endeavour leader Captain Mark Kelly and wife and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will write a memoir which will throw light into the details of the remarkable recovery made by Giffords after she was shot y a gunman on January 8.

Jon Huntsman declared his candidacy for 2012 presidential nomination from the Republican party.

After targeting the U.K. the hacker collective LulzSec yesterday claimed responsibility for successful cyber attacks against two of the Brazilian Government's websites.

A 9-year-old boy who was severely injured in a passenger plane crash in Russia died on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 45.

Internet search company Google has been directed to stop the street view filming project in the south Indian city of Bangalore by the city police, until it gets necessary clearance from the government.

The reclusive teenage hacker arrested in Britain on Tuesday could prove vital clues to the terror ring of super-brain hackers who torment governments and the biggest of corporations in the world no end.

The Summer Solstice 2011, the longest day of the year and also the official beginning of the summer season, officially arrived on Tuesday, June 21.

Nokia has launched its Nokia N9 smartphone which will take you to the home page with a swipe on the edge of its completely flat screen interface.

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, have made a deal to write a memoir of their lives together, their publisher said on Tuesday.

Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, said Tuesday that he will be retiring from NASA after 25 years of working with the space agency.

Three weeks after landing the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of its final voyage, Captain Mark Kelly said he’ll be retiring from NASA and the U.S. Navy to be with his wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, as she recovers from gunshot wounds suffered in January, Reuters reported.

Jon Huntsman is Mormon. In 2011, American voters remain prejudiced against Mormon candidates.

The Greek parliament has voted favorably on a motion of confidence for the government of George Papandreou, Reuters reports.

As if Republicans didn't have enough to dislike about President Barack Obama's health care law, a new Associated Press report states that a glitch in the health care law could mean that several million middle-class people could get nearly free insurance meant for the poor.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launched his campaign for U.S. president Tuesday with a creative ad that, if nothing else, will certainly have political operatives and voters talking.

Leon Panetta was unanimously confirmed by the Senate Tuesday to be the next Pentagon chief, the Los Angeles Times reported.

We take a look at Angelina Jolie, Michelle Obama, and Shakira, and their humanitarian efforts.

The jihadist clan has made good on their threat to cause more destruction in Nigeria. They have said that the time to negotiate has passed.

In 1954, Algeria mounted a roaring eight-year offensive against French imperialism. In 2011, it's arguably the quietest nation in North Africa.

With New York at the center of same-sex marriage debate, you may want to cool down and consider whether the new social norm proposed here is merely an issue of personal choice.

Cigarette makers are now required to add graphic warning labels depicting rotting teeth, a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck, and other images to packaging and advertising in the U.S. by October 22, 2012, government officials said Tuesday.

On Monday June 20th, First Lady Michelle Obama began her first official state visit to Africa. Accompanied by her family, sans her husband U.S. President Barack Obama, Michelle hopes to use this trip to strengthen diplomatic relations between the United States and Africa.

A radioactive form of hydrogen is escaping from nearly three quarters of U.S. nuclear sites, sometimes in quantities hundreds of times over the federal limit of what is hazardous in drinking water.

Nearly a week after the waters unleashed by Hurricane Katrina began devastating New Orleans, a group of police officers sped towards a bridge in the east of the city after receiving a call that other officers had come under fire there. What happened next is the subject of a trial beginning this week.

President Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and war crimes. He will be hosted in Beijing for three days next week.

Officials from Turkey and Israel are meeting secretly to restore the relations between the two nations, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.