MEDIA personality Sonia Kruger has responded to an avalanche of criticism after her call to ban Muslim migrants from Australia by saying she should be free to speak her mind without being labelled “a racist”.
KATHMANDU – At least 150 Israelis are still out of contact in Nepal, down from over 200, where an aftershock added to devastation Sunday a day after a massive Himalayan earthquake killed more than 2,500 people, Israeli and foreign authorities said Sunday afternoon.
Russia has kicked off the trial of a prominent New York real-estate developer and former Guggenheim Museum board member who is accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in state funds to fuel her lavish lifestyle.
Singapore – At least 10 U.S. sailors are missing after the USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months.
The British ambassador to Saudi Arabia has converted to Islam and this week completed the hajj with his Syrian wife.
SAN FRANCISCO — Family members say tech executive David Goldberg, head of the online SurveyMonkey site and husband of Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, has died.
The death of Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, last month reverberated far beyond the confines of Silicon Valley.
A federal appeals court has overturned the corruption conviction of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Alleged ties to Chinese organized crime may mean serious legal problems for American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the Guardian website reported on Sunday.
By the time he stepped down from running the Keck School of Medicine at USC, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito had built a successful career.
