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."
A New York jury decided on Wednesday that three-term Governor George Pataki did not violate the criminals' rights by authorizing a program to involuntarily commit them to mental instituions after they completed their sentences.
