In a radical move that may have wider political repercussions, cricketer turned politician, Imran Khan has called for mass civil disobedience in Pakistan and has asked people not to pay taxes and utility bills so as to bring down Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif government from power.
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, said on Monday that he intends to leave Equador's London embassy "soon".
As Obama administration tries hard to maintain peace in Ferguson, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr, announced Sunday that a federal medical examiner would conduct an independent autopsy of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot Aug. 9 in Ferguson by Officer Darren Wilson, the New York Times reported.
The Islamic State has executed 700 members of a tribe in eastern Syria in the last two weeks, a human rights monitoring group said on Saturday.
Thousands of pro-government supporters gathered in Hong Kong Sunday to protest against the civil disobedience threatened by Occupy Central campaigners demanding genuine "universal suffrage".
Thousands of Pakistanis joined a march to the capital Islamabad on Thursday to pressurize the prime minister to stand down for alleged vote fraud. Fears are rife that the rally might just turn into a coup if it gains ground.
Cisco Systems announced Wednesday its fourth-quarter earnings and its plans of downsizing its workforce.
Russia pushes aid convoy in to Ukraine as fighting picks up in the rebel held region
Marilyn Hartman, a 62-year-old woman and a serial stowaway, was sentenced Wednesday to 177 days in jail after she violated her probation of staying from the Los Angeles International Airport.
The border conflict between Ukraine and Russia might affect gas supply to the European Union
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is teaming up with DNA testing company 23andMe to study Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
A new research found a specific genetic mutation that damages nerve cells in two serious afflictions - frontotemporal dementia and motor neurone disease.
France will be joining the war effort of the United States in Iraq and will supply arms to the Kurdish fighters, announced the French President Francois Hollande, reports the BBC.
Brain's response to threat increases in men who take testosterone, a steroid hormone, a new research shows.
Drugmaking giants Sanofi and MannKind Corp have entered into a licensing deal to market inhalation powder for diabetes. Sanofi will pay as much as $925 million to Mannkind for marketing rights over Afrezza.
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