On Thursday, the New York City Health Board in an 8-0 vote, with one abstention, to approve Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal of banning sugared beverages 16. Oz or larger to be sold at any type of eatery that receives a grade for food service.
Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and clashes with security forces injured at least 15 people.
Tuesday's deadly attacks on the US embassy in the city of Benghazi in Libya in which three embassy staff members and the US ambassador Christopher Stevens have been killed has been attributed to Islamist fundamentalist angered by a US film which derided the Muslim religion and prophet Mohammad.
Parents of U.S. Gold medalist Tianna Madison have filed suit against their daughter claiming that the 27-year-old was libel for slanderous statements she made to the press about her parents.
