Death threats for royal prank call presenters: police Death threats have been made against the Australian radio hosts at the centre of the royal prank call tragedy, police said Friday, with station management reportedly hiring bodyguards and moving staff to safehouses.
14 December 2012
Japan utilities dive on atomic plant shutdown fears Shares in Japanese power companies plunged Tuesday after a panel of experts said one of the nation's nuclear plants may sit over an active seismic fault, raising fears it would have to be scrapped.
12 December 2012
Clinton to testify this month on Benghazi attack Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify this month before US lawmakers at Senate and House hearings about the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi.
09 December 2012
DR Congo rebels, troops accused of killing, rape rampage Rebels and government troops raped and killed civilians and looted towns during battles in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last month with children suffering dramatically.
08 December 2012
Romanian millionaire hopes for upset in Sunday polls He's under investigation for fraud and on trial for blackmail, but populist millionaire Dan Diaconescu drives a white Rolls Royce and promises to be a reforming figure whose goal is to "uproot the newly rich who have plundered Romania".
07 December 2012
Gender identity struggle figured in Manning's detention The US military held WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning under strict "suicide watch" partly because his gender identity struggle showed he was mentally "not stable," a witness said Sunday.
03 December 2012
Police bust Australia's biggest credit card scam Australian police said Thursday they had uncovered the country's biggest ever credit card data theft and smashed a Romanian syndicate allegedly behind the scam.
30 November 2012
Arafat exhumation hopes to quell poison quandary One of the Middle East's greatest political mysteries will come a step closer to being solved on Tuesday when scientists exhume iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's remains to see if he was poisoned.
26 November 2012
Sarkozy escapes indictment in illegal campaign finance case Former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday avoided indictment in an investigation into allegations that his 2007 election campaign was financed with funds secured illegally from France's richest woman.
24 November 2012
Benghazi row in Washington narrows on edited memo The row over the assault on the US mission in Libya has narrowed to focus on how and why the CIA's determination that it was a terror attack was left out of a public "talking points" memo.
20 November 2012
Petraeus says knew from start Benghazi was terrorism Former CIA chief David Petraeus told lawmakers Friday he knew from the outset that a deadly attack on a US mission in Libya was the work of terrorists, in his first outing since his resignation.
19 November 2012
Petraeus sex scandal amuses Taliban The sex scandal that has brought down CIA chief David Petraeus may be causing heartache in the Washington security establishment but the affair has prompted laughter among the Taliban.
16 November 2012
Obama backs Allen over Petraeus sex scandal President Barack Obama backed the commander of US forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday after the top general was dragged into the sex scandal that brought down CIA director David Petraeus.
FBI agents search home of Petraeus's loverFBI agents searched the home of the woman at the center of a sex scandal behind David Petraeus's decision to step down as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
13 November 2012
Lover's jealous emails led to CIA chief's downfall The FBI uncovered the affair that led to the resignation of CIA chief David Petraeus while investigating threatening emails sent by his lover to a second woman.
12 November 2012
French socialist party ex-chief probed in asbestos scandal Former French socialist party leader Martine Aubry said Tuesday she had come under investigation for "involuntary manslaughter and causing bodily harm by negligence" in an asbestos scandal.
07 November 2012
Comedian grilled again in UK sex abuse probe British comedian Freddie Starr was bailed Friday after a second round of questioning by police investigating sexual abuse allegations surrounding the late television personality Jimmy Savile.
03 November 2012
Family of Chinese PM has hidden fortune: NYT Relatives of China's reformist premier have amassed huge riches during his tenure, according to a report Friday that came as the Communist Party prepares for a pivotal handover of power.
27 October 2012
US probes deaths for possible energy drink links The US Food and Drug Administration is investigating five deaths and a heart attack for possible links to consumption of Monster Energy drinks, an agency spokeswoman.