Michael Jackson doctor: ‘I told the truth’

Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician under investigation in the death of singer Michael Jackson, said in a video posted online Tuesday that he has "faith the truth will prevail." Murray, who was with Jackson when he died, recorded the one-minute video in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday and it posted on YouTube Tuesday, the spokeswoman for his lawyer said. “I have done all I could do,” Murray said.

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Boston cop who sent ‘jungle monkey’ e-mail sues

A Boston police officer is suing the city after he was suspended for referring to a black Harvard professor as a "banana-eating jungle monkey" in an e-mail. “If I’m charged with a crime I want a chance to answer. I want the chance for a fair hearing,” Officer Justin Barrett told CNN on Tuesday.

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A Mafia Boss Breaks Silence on an Infamous Assassination

Each year, Italians take part in a mid-summer ritual to honor the victims of the Mafia and speak out against the scourge of organized crime. From Palermo to Torino, politicians, church leaders and youth groups gather to mark the July 19, 1992, assassination of anti-mob magistrate Paolo Borsellino, who was killed along with five bodyguards in a meticulously planned car bombing outside his mother’s apartment in the Sicilian capital

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Sudanese lawyer calls woman’s flogging punishment ‘degrading’

The lawyer for the woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes that Sudan deemed indecent called the law "degrading." “They ought to stop it,” Nabil Adib said on Thursday. “It is quite unnecessary and degrading

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