Brad Pitt punched in face at movie premiere: policeActor Brad Pitt was punched in the face Wednesday night while signing autographs at the Hollywood premiere of "Maleficent" starring his partner Angelina Jolie, news reports said.
British journalists shot and beaten in Syria kidnappingTwo British journalists were recovering in Turkey on Thursday after being shot and beaten by rebel kidnappers while covering the Syrian conflict, the Times reported.
15 May 2014
UN condemns killing of French journalist in CARThe UN Security Council has condemned the killing of a French journalist in the Central African Republic, and stated those responsible "shall be held accountable".
14 May 2014
Phoenix TV journalists file harassment lawsuit in New YorkTwo employees of Hong Kong-based Phoenix television and a job applicant filed suit Tuesday against the company in New York after allegations of sexual harassment against its former bureau chief.
Two Philippine TV journalists wounded in bomb blastTwo journalists at a major Philippine TV broadcaster were injured on Saturday after a bomb exploded as they were covering fighting between soldiers and hardline Muslim rebels, a military commander said.
01 February 2014
Nine indicted in Haiti journalist's murderA Haitian judge on Friday indicted nine people, including several with close ties to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in the murder of a prominent journalist, officials said.
18 January 2014
Body of Indian minister's wife taken to hospital for autopsyThe body of the wife of an Indian minister, found dead in a luxury hotel days after accusing her husband on Twitter of being unfaithful, was moved to a hospital Saturday for an autopsy.
18 January 2014
Angry wife outs Indian minister's 'affair' on TwitterThe furious wife of the Indian government's top-tweeting minister admitted Thursday she had hacked his account to send out messages exposing an alleged affair he was having with a Pakistani journalist.
16 January 2014
Moscow expels US journalistUS journalist David Satter, a longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been banned from the country in one of the first such expulsions since the Cold War.
Egypt police arrest Al-Jazeera journalists: ministryEgyptian secret police have arrested an award-winning Australian journalist and an Egyptian reporter for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera channel on suspicion of illegally broadcasting news harming "domestic security", the interior ministry said.
31 December 2013
UN urges Thailand to drop charges against websiteThe United Nations has urged Thailand to drop defamation charges against two Australian and Thai journalists for a report alleging military involvement in people smuggling, warning of a "chilling effect" on press freedom.
After a year, no news of US reporter missing in SyriaThe family of US journalist James Foley, who on Friday will mark the first anniversary of his disappearance in war-torn Syria, say they have not given up hope of welcoming him home.
22 November 2013
Scientists study evolution of 'Little Red Riding Hood'"Little Red Riding Hood" may have been heading to her grandmother's house -- but anthropologists wanted to know where she came from and just how her story spread.
14 November 2013
All Latin American countries spied on by US: GreenwaldGlenn Greenwald, the former Guardian reporter who broke many of the recent stories about secret US surveillance programs, claimed that all Latin American countries had been spied on by Washington.