The space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center without a hitch, in spite of threatening weather, marking the shuttle’s final voyage. Atlantis, climbing at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour, is scheduled to dock at the International Space Station on Sunday. Those involved, and many throughout the nation, experienced a moment of bittersweet [...]

After activists scheduled a demonstration to take place Friday, calling for accountability for perpetrators of the killings and attacks in Tahrir Square, more than two dozen officials were arrested. Among them, allies of former president Hosni Mubarak and assailants who rode camels and horses through the square during the uprising beginning on February 2nd. During [...]

At least 71 people died this week in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. The federal Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, a member of the People’s Party which holds power in the city, said the death toll may be as high as 85. The violence was the worst so far this year and comes after the city’s most [...]

Casey Anthony will be free after spending six more days in jail. On Wednesday of next week, Anthony will be a free woman after being acquitted in the death of her daughter, Caylee. After the jury returned a “not guilty” verdict on all charges relating to Caylee’s death, from first-degree capital murder to manslaughter, Anthony [...]

Ratko Mladic, the ex-leader of the Bosnian Serb army, has been forcibly removed from court after causing multiple disruptions at The Hague war crimes tribunal, where he is charged with multiple counts of war atrocities and genocide.  Mladic was arrested at the end of May in Serbia, after spending sixteen years hiding out from authorities.  [...]

Blog posts speculating that Jiang Zemin, the ex-President of China, is dead are being blocked by the country’s online police force. Jiang has not made a public appearance in almost two years and he missed Chinese Communist party celebrations on July 1st, giving rise to rumors that the ex-president had in fact passed away. The [...]

Three Marines in California will face charges of fraud and larceny after being accused of entering false marriages strictly for the purpose of financial benefits.  Cpl. Ashley Vice, a female marine in a lesbian relationship with Jaime Murphy, a civilian, are living in a relationship akin to marriage and wanted to collect the $1,200 monthly [...]

After Jose Baez, the lead attorney in Casey Anthony’s defense, informed Judge Blevin Perry that the state had not provided reports of what their upcoming witnesses would be arguing in rebuttal, Perry issued in indefinite recess. Upcoming witnesses for the state include a forensic anthropologist and computer analysts. They will now have to submit written [...]