Katherine Jackson’s attorney has said that he had met with his client face-to-face for the first time in several days and that she was doing fine.
The matriarch of the Jackson family says she is devastated by a judge’s ruling to temporarily strip her guardianship of Michael Jackson’s children.
Christian Bale has visited survivors of the Colorado shooting and stopped by a makeshift memorial to victims of the attack that killed 12 people.
Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" has died at the age of 74.
A Russian mayor and two other officials have been arrested for failing to issue warnings and evacuate residents during floods that killed 171 people.
Tanzania’s government has halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people.
James Eagen Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave where neighbours recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words.
Japan and Australia are under fire after complaints that male Olympic athletes flew business class to London, while the women sat in the cheap seats.
Egypt’s former spy chief Omar Suleiman, one of the top figures in the regime ousted by last year’s uprising, has died. He was 76.
Mitt Romney, stung by persistent attacks on his record as a businessman, has mounted a blistering counterattack against President Barack Obama.