International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, widely expected to run for the French Presidency next year, has been arrested in New York over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid. Strauss-Kahn, 62, managing director of the Washington-based IMF since 2007, was taken off an Air France plane's first-class cabin at the John F Kennedy International Airport and apprehended by detectives. "He is being arrested for a criminal sex act, attempted rape," they said.
Two young men have been arrested in New York, and charged in connection with an alleged terror plot to "blow up synagogues and kill Jews" besides attacking the Empire State building.
The United States administration is pushing for greater control over the investigation of any involvement of the Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence in slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's presence in Pakistan since 9/11, amid fears that Islamabad may not carry out a credible probe.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a "watershed moment" in the war against terrorism, expressing relief that "justice" had been done.
A United Nations panel has said killing of tens of thousands of people in the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil strife could amount to "war crimes", but Secretary General Ban Ki-moon insisted he would only launch an international investigation if Colombo agrees or member states call for it.
In the final part of the government rebuttal, US assistant attorney Jonathan Streeter contested claims made by defense attorney, John Dowd, that government witnesses told lies on the stand.
John Dowd, Rajaratnam's lawyer, asked the jury why Rajat Gupta, 62, would risk his entire career and reputation for nothing.
Gupta, who has not been indicted in the criminal trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, faces civil charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly passing confidential information about Goldman Sachs to the defendant.
Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam's defence team have rested their case in the biggest hedge fund insider trading trial in the US history. Rajaratnam's defence rested their case on Monday.
Sri Lanka-born billionaire Raj Rajaratnam's defence team on Wednesday told a US jury that his trading in Goldman Sachs was not based on insider information, but a great deal of research and discussion on the investment bank, especially during the financial crisis.
Raj Rajaratnam, the key accused in the biggest insider trading case in US history, worked hard to learn how the markets was operating and didn't need illegal tips to make money, a former executive of the hedge fund has testified.
Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Streeter has told US District Judge Richard Holwell that the government plans to present two more witnesses before wrapping up.
Smith, who is the US government's third key witness in the case, had pleaded guilty in January.
Former Intel executive and key government witness Rajiv Goel has said that he was not joking with Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam when telling him about the dealings of his company.
Indian American Rajat Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs, had violated the firm's code of conduct by disclosing details from a 2008 board meeting to hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, the main accused in the largest hedge fund insider trading case to hit US courts, the company CEO Lloyd Blankfein has testified.
India, along with four other members of the United Nations Security Council, abstained from voting on a resolution that approves a no-fly zone over Libya and authorises "all necessary measures" for protecting civilians there from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces. Ten of the 15-member body voted in favour of the resolution, but five nations -- China, Russia (which have veto power) and non-permanent members India, Germany and Brazil -- abstained from voting.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy envoy to the United Nations, who had turned against Muammar Gaddafi, has called on the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution imposing a no-fly zone in the North African country within the next 10 hours.
The NYT identified the missing journalists as Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by Taliban in 2009, and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have worked extensively in the Middle East and Africa
During the trial proceedings on Tuesday, John Dowd, Galleon Group founder Rajaratnam's defence lawyer, cross-examined Kumar, a former McKinsey & Co. partner who gave his direct testimony.
Former McKinsey director Anil Kumar on Friday testified against his ex-Wharton classmate and Sri Lankan-born billionaire Raj Rajaratnam in the biggest insider trading case to hit US courts in decades.
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