SEOUL, South Korea — In a departure from the leniency typically given South Korean big businesses, prosecutors on Monday requested the arrest of the de facto head of Samsung Electronics, the country’s most valuable company, in an influence-peddling scandal that has toppled the country’s president.
An ACT Airlines cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport early Monday morning, killing at least 37 people.
A holy war between the billionaire benefactor of an Upper East Side synagogue and the temple’s longtime rabbi has cost the clergyman his job.
Aiming to curb situations in which civilian vehicles are stuck “off the grid,” a Caesarea-based firm has begun shipments of a system that prevents disruptions to GPS.
Captain Yehuda Glickman is a haredi officer who is responsible for the recruitment of haredim to the IDF.
EVANSTON, Ill. — Police thought Northwestern doctoral student Lawrence Crosby was driving a stolen car, but it turned out that car belonged to him.
The elder daughter of Uzbekistan’s late President Islam Karimov was questioned recently over money-laundering accusations by Swiss prosecutors while under house arrest in Tashkent, according to a lawyer who attended the meetings.
MIAMI — Erislandy Lara knocked out Israeli boxer Yuri Foreman with a crushing left uppercut in the fourth round on Friday to retain his World Boxing Association super welterweight world title.
A suspended Westhampton Beach Village Police officer is seeking $75 million in damages from both former and current village and police department representatives, as well as several Suffolk County officials, alleging in a federal lawsuit that they have repeatedly violated his civil rights by refusing to reinstate him.
