'Recipe for disaster' for Jackson's death found
2011-10-14 11:32:28
prosecution expert who had reviewed how Michael Jackson's personal physician had treated the superstar before his death noted the mix of drugs was a recipe for disaster.
US protesters ready for clean-up standoff
2011-10-14 14:08:41
Anti-Wall Street protesters are preparing on Friday to block efforts to clean up the Lower Manhattan park where they set up camp nearly a month ago, raising concerns of a possible showdown with authorities.
'Underwear bomber' pleads guilty in US court
2011-10-13 03:23:05
A Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his underwear pleaded guilty on Wednesday.
8 dead in California salon shooting
2011-10-13 07:05:29
A gunman opened fire in a busy hair salon, killing eight people and critically wounding another in a California beach community.
Foreign insects, diseases got into US
2011-10-11 16:45:46
Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after September 11.
Apple employee celebration of Jobs next week
2011-10-11 14:51:50
A celebration of Steve Jobs' life by Apple Inc will be held next week, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in a memo to employees on Monday.
5 shot in Newark, New Jersey
2011-10-11 14:48:44
At least five people were shot on Monday afternoon in Newark, the largest city of the US state of New Jersey, which is approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of New York's Manhattan, local police said.
US woman accused of cutting out fetus
2011-10-11 14:45:01
Morales-Rodriguez made a brief court appearance Monday, standing silent as her bail was set at $1 million.
US state bans use of tanning beds by minors
2011-10-11 14:13:46
Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after the governor signed a bill prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.
Occupy Wall Street protesters stage a Millionaires March
2011-10-12 06:47:37
Thousands of protesters on Tuesday kicked off a "Millionaires March" to the homes of super riches in NYC's Upper East Side to demonstrate against economic injustice.
Americans win Nobel prize in economics
2011-10-11 08:10:04
Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims shared the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for work that helps governments and central banks weigh up responses to crises - though it offers no immediate answer to current global problems.
Apple's iPhone 4S pre-orders top 1m in 24 hours
2011-10-11 08:48:03
Apple announced on Monday that pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day pre-order record of the company's smartphone.