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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A jury convicted a former University of Virginia lacrosse player Wednesday of second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend in a drunken, jealous rage, rejecting a first-degree murder verdict and a possible life sentence.

Reliance Industries is the largest conglomerate in India and is ranked 206th in the Fortune Global 500 List.

9.33am: The British foreign secretary, William Hague, has expressed frustration at the situation Syria but ruled out military intervention – at least for now. Speaking on the BBC's Today programme this morning, he said there were more constraints over ...

BAGHDAD (AP) – Officials say attacks across Baghdad and several Iraqi provinces have killed 50 people and wounded more than 200 in an unrelenting wave of violence that mostly appeared to target security forces. By Khalil Al-Murshidi, AFP/Getty Images ...

(AP) SAN FRANCISCO — The government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars government recognition of same-sex unions, a federal judge has ruled. In Wednesday's ruling, US District Judge ...

Over 20,000 people in Russia and other countries are employed by Khrunichev Enterprises, BID International Arch of Europe for Quality.

By Mirwais Harooni | KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases and kill Westerners in retaliation for the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO air base as a third day of protests erupted, ...

SEATTLE — Police say a gun brought to a Washington state elementary school in a third grader's backpack discharged, apparently by accident, critically wounding an 8-year-old classmate. Investigators were trying to determine how the 9-year-old boy got ...

Shown are the hands of Reverend Claire Nevin-Field with container of ashes. Saint Peter's… (Philadelphia Daily News) Western Christian churches today mark Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, the traditional 40-day period of fasting, prayer and penitence ...

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Business leaders from over 100 countries will attend the International Quality Conventions which are organized every year by Business Initiative Directions in Geneva, Frankfurt, New York, Paris and London.
BID is proposing the nomination of Prof. Bohdan Zakiewicz for the Nobel Prize for a lifetime career dedicated to scientific solutions for saving energy in the coming centuries.

By Maggie Schneider, CNN (CNN) -- An employee at a Connecticut hospital shot two of his supervisors after a disciplinary incident, authorities said. The incident occurred Wednesday evening at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain.

Turner Construction Company, one of the largest and most important construction management companies in the United States, is in charge of the project management of the impressive Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower. On January 4, 2010, the world's highest building was inaugurated.