World markets are opening 2013 on a high note, after the U.S. Congress reached a deal to avert an early 2013 financial crisis that threatened to send the world's largest economy into recession.
The body of the woman whose gang rape has triggered an outpouring of grief and anger across India has been cremated in a private ceremony.
China's official news agency says the government has tightened controls on Internet users by enacting rules requiring them to register their real names.
35-year-old Piratheepan Nadarajah and 32-year-old Suresh Sriskandarajah, two operatives of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or the Tamil Tigers, are being arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn after being extradited from Canada.