The shutdown of many U.S. embassies throughout the Muslim world was triggered by an intercepted secret message between al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawari and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack
The United States will temporarily shut down its embassies and consulates around the world on Sunday as a precautionary measure over terror-related concerns, State Department officials said on Friday
Italy's Supreme Court upheld the prison sentence given to the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud. The ruling which could throw the country's fragile coalition government into crisis.
During Cleveland kidnapper's Ariel Castro's sentencing hearing on Thursday, Judge Michael Russo said that the defendant fits the very definition of a "violent sexual predator."
