Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been freed from house arrest after the the woman accusing him of sexual assault altered her testimony.
Millions of Americans dug out from an epic winter storm on Wednesday that buried more than a third of the United States in drifting snow.
Vampires are in fashion across the US, encouraged by the hit TV series <i>True Blood</i>, the <i>Twilight</i> movies and <i>Vampire Diaries</i>.
The US has laid charges against alleged members of a Kremlin spy ring, as Russia and the US were said to be planning a Cold War-style prisoner swap.
From Elvis Presley to Princess Diana, iconic funerals are often marked by massive crowds, celebrity mourners and gut-wrenching emotion.
Thousands of people who lost their life savings in a multibillion-dollar scam will discover on Monday the fate of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff.
For sale: a slice of New York with room for 3 000 new tenants — provided they’re dead.
An airline catering to furry passengers takes to the skies this July with a promise to make air travel everything the domestic animal could want.
Pity the world’s rich: as the credit crunch bites, they too are heading to the pawnbroker’s — albeit with a Renoir or Van Gogh under their arm.
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/ 24 December 2008
A French investment manager who plowed €1,5-billion ($2,1-billion) into Bernard Madoff’s fraudulent scheme was found dead on Tuesday.