China's demand for crude oil is being cited as a factor in driving oil prices to a historic new record today of $100 per barrel this morning in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) trading.

The New Year has already produced its first "stupid criminal." The winner is Adam Grennan. 39, of Hull, Massachusetts, who tried to rob a Boston area bank, not realizing that the person behind him in line, Kamau Pritchard, was...

Kumari Fulbright, 25, a beauty pageant queen and law school student who clerked for a federal judge, faces charges that she kidnapped and tortured her 24-year-old ex-boyfriend on December 8.

A record crowd of 73,000 turned out this afternoon in Orchard Park, NY to see the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins do battle in the National Hockey League's Winter Classic game, which the Penguins won 2-1 in a shoot-out goal by Sidney Crosby.

Sara Jane Moore, 77, who tried to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford on September 22, 1975, was released from a Dublin, California prison at 5:20 a.m. this morning after 30 years behind bars.

Athar Minallah, an attorney on the board of directors at Rawalpindi General Hospital where Benazir Bhutto died last week, said today that the police chief of Rawalpindi prevented doctors from performing an autopsy on Bhutto.

Traditional fireworks displays in Brussels, Belgium have been cancelled this New Year's Eve due to terrorism concerns involving a possible attack by al-Qaida sympathizers wanting to free a Tunisian-born al-Qaida member, Nizar Trabelsi, 37, from jail.

Amateur video obtained by CNN from DawnNews TV of Pakistan shows former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto slumping down into her car after being fatally shot in Rawalpindi on December 27.

Despite his rumoured lack of interest in politics, Bilawal Bhutto, 19, son of the slain Benazir Bhutto, has been handpicked by the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to succeed his mother as head of the party.

After 11 years of marriage, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, 47, and actress Robin Wright Penn, 41, are divorcing. The divorce was confirmed by Mara Buxbaum, Penn's publicist, but no details were released. The couple have two teenaged children.

Nine teenagers who pleaded guilty in the 2005 gang rape of a 10-year-old girl in Aurukun, Cape York, Australia received no jail time when sentenced yesterday. The case has sparked outrage and

Amidst rising concern about bisphenol-A (BPA), which has been linked to cancer and other diseases in more than 100 studies, the Vancouver-based Mountain Equipment Co-Op (MEC) has become the first Canadian business to stop selling items containing BPA.

After an absence of 19 years, the legendary rock 'n roll/heavy metal band Led Zeppelin will perform tonight at the O2 Arena in London, England. In an Internet lottery, about 20 million people competed for the 18,000 tickets priced at $250 USD each.

If you Google the word "eBay" this morning in Google's search engine, the top entry is a sponsored link which says eBay but takes the visitor to Amazon.com. The ad reads: "Search for something you love. Shop now on eBay."

Nobel Prize-winning scientist and author Dr. James D. Watson, who earlier this year said that blacks are less intelligent than whites, has been found by a DNA lab to have black genes and probably Oriental genes.

A zamboni caught fire and was badly damaged during a skating rink's intermission at the Ice Works in Aston, Pennsylvania last week. No one was injured in the blaze at the complex, which houses four rinks, an arcade, a restaurant and other businesses.

Jurors have just returned verdicts in the Robert Pickton trial on six counts of second-degree murder in New Westminster, BC. Pickton had been charged with six counts of first-degree murder. Twenty additional counts of murder have yet to be dealt with.

Baseball legend Barry Bonds, 43, plead not guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to one count of obstruction of justice and four counts of perjury. Bonds, a seven-time National League MVP, allegedly used steroids and lied about it.

Starbucks announced today that it's recalling about 167,000 coffee mugs because of burn hazards. The mugs were sold in Canada and the United States. Handles on Fusion Coffee Mugs can come off, spilling coffee and burning people.

A giant white truffle dug up in Tuscany, Italy and weighing 1.497 kilograms was sold at auction today, setting a new world record truffle price when billionaire businessman and Macau casino owner Stanley Ho paid $330,000 for the mushroom.