He reported from war zones and brought down a top American general with a hard-hitting profile. But now American publishers and readers are mourning the death of young award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, who died on Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles.
One of the people responsible for bringing the details of a teenage rape case to public attention says she is shocked by the callous attitude to the victim expressed by the tennis star Serena Williams.
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications chief Andy Coulson has appeared in court charged with perjury.
Angela Merkel's conservatives want to increase the use of German in Europe if they are re-elected in September, calling in their campaign programme for the language to be treated on a par with English and French in top Brussels institutions.
Tennis star Serena Williams has raised eyebrows by calling the 16-year Stuebenville rape victim 'lucky.'
Charles Saatchi accepted a police caution for assaulting his wife, Nigella Lawson, to avoid having the incident "hanging over all of us for months", he said.
A parliamentary hearing on Ukraine's budget was suspended for several hours on Tuesday after opposition deputies alleged that a deputy finance minister presenting the budget report was drunk.
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has denied charges he is spying for China and vowed to release more details on the top-secret intelligence agency's ''direct access'' to tech companies' servers.
Enormous demonstrations have shaken cities across this continent-sized country, and more were expected on Tuesday in some of the largest outpourings of frustration in decades over red tape, high prices and shoddy services in a rising economic power.
Three Ohio residents are accused of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over two years.
