PROBE popularity and PROBE trends

Now that the investigation of Lance Armstrong is closed, legal experts wonder whether prosecuting athletes over doping is worth it.

By Omar SacirbeyReligion News Service(RNS) More than 30 Muslim and legal advocacy groups are urging New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman to investigate the New York City Police Department after the second scandal in as many weeks involving Muslim Americans.Read More...More on Islam

Caught in a maelstrom of public reaction to its decision to cease funding Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation announced Friday that it would reverse course. Komen will no longer bar organizations that are under government investigation from applying for grants. As a result, Planned Parenthood — which is the focus of a House probe over whether it has used federal funds...

Opposition BJP has demanded a special probe against former civil aviation minister Praful Patel on Friday after reports in a leading Canadian newspaper suggested that he was bribed.

A legal probe was launched last year after the Austrian site offered sales of spirits in 'nostalgic bottles of former historical greats' (pictured).

Regulators in Switzerland and the U.K. stepped up pressure on a slate of Swiss and foreign banks Friday, extending a probe into alleged manipulation of key interest rates and disclosing possible enforcement action against UBS in a trading scandal.

Operation Weeting officers ask former journalists to act as witnesses in the investigation into phone hackingSeveral former News of the World staff have been called by police in the past few days to see if they are willing to act as witnesses in the investigation into phone hacking.Former journalists at all levels at the now-defunct News International tabloid who have had no known involvement i...

The Justice Department’s investigation into the deaths of two detainees in CIA custody, including one who died at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, is winding down, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. signaled Thursday. Read full article >>

The Justice Department's investigation into the deaths of two detainees in Central Intelligence Agency custody should conclude soon, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday. Holder made no mention of proceeding with prosecutions in the cases and suggested they would be closed. "There were ....things that were done during the course of those interrogations that are antithetical to American va...

The Justice Department and Republicans on a House committee looking into a flawed gun-smuggling probe called Operation Fast and Furious appear ...

Der Frost stellt Smartphone-Fans auf eine harte Probe, denn mit Handschuhen funktionieren Touchscreens nicht. Soll man nun auf das Handy verzichten oder Frostbeulen riskieren? Der Überblick über mögliche Lösungen - von Handwärmer bis Würstchen-Trick.

Was bei den Ballons etwas Wasser in den Wein gießt, ist der erhebliche Energieverbrauch. So ein Brenner hat mal locker 3 MW Leistung. Einer von mehreren. Irgendjemand hat mal ausgerechnet, dass mit dem Energieverbrauch eine Familie eine halbe Heizsaison bestreiten könnte. Kurze Probe: Die rein adiabatische Füllung von 5.000 m3 von 20 auf 90 Grad wären 455 MJ, umgerechnet 11 Liter Benzin. Nicht...

Attorney General Eric Holder was threatened today with contempt of Congress over the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-walking probe.

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to respondents including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, former law minister Dr Babar Awan, PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi and others, allegedly involved in Benazir Bhutto murder case, to file para-wise comments, if they so desire, within a period of two weeks and said it would constitute a larger bench to look into registration of second FIR ...

Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon took to the stand on Tuesday to defend his attempt to probe crimes of the Franco dictatorship telling the court that victims had a right to justice despite a 1977 amnesty.

Russia's space agency has blamed the effect of cosmic radiation for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, which crashed over the Pacific Ocean earlier this month.

Italien hat eine weitere Probe an den Finanzmärkten bestanden: Das hochverschuldete Land konnte seine neuen Staatsanleihen problemlos verkaufen. Allerdings gab es auch einen Wermutstropfen.Mehr zum ThemaPleite der Drogeriekette - Anton Schlecker ist auch privat ruiniertDrogeriekette in der Insolvenz - Anton Schlecker ist auch privat ruiniertAufholjagd nach Absturz - Deutscher Chef will Blackber...

LONDON detectives  have arrested two current and two former journalists from The Sun and a police officer in a bribery investigation.

POLICE looking into reports that a fan allegedly made a 'monkey' gesture during Liverpool's game with Man Utd

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions as part of a new effort to investigate misconduct in the packaging and sale of home loans to investors, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews Health ministry wasn’t getting the information it needed about the air ambulance’s private, for-profit ventures

This is not a metaphorical view inside a nuclear reactor. This is for real-real. This month, the good folks at TEPCO sent a remote-controlled endoscope and thermometer into the containment vessel of Fukishima's crippled reactor #2, hoping to learn something about the level of cooling water, the state of the fuel rods, and the temperature [...]

A criminal probe into the Costa Concordia’s doomed voyage, which ended with at least 15 dead, may be widened, a lawyer for captain Francesco Schettino said

Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency, named the main versions, which became the reasons for the failure of the nation's Phobos Ground Mars exploration project. Popovkin still believes that the Russian spacecraft could come out of order because of a US radar, even though US officials stated the opposite

The government on Wednesday said it had taken note of the large amounts of ‘sundry income’ in the accounts of several Indian entities of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) entities and will work on a report on the matter.

The attack erupted in one of the best-protected parts of Afghanistan: the military-controlled portion of the Kabul airport. As two dozen people gathered for a routine morning meeting in a conference room, an overweight and aging Afghan helicopter pilot pulled a pistol out of his flight suit and began shooting U.S. Air Force officers in the backs of their heads. Read full article >>

One of the coolest space missions of recent time, to be carried out by Russia's Phobos-Grunt, failed last November. Now the unsuccessful probe has crash-landed in the Pacific Ocean. More »

The probe, launched in November, was designed to travel to a Mars moon but became trapped in Earth’s orbit

Bremen (dpa/tmn) - Streusalz, Schneematsch und Minusgrade stellen Autos im Winter auf eine harte Probe. Mit der Fahrzeugpflege sollten es Autobesitzer dann ernst nehmen. Allerdings gilt es, beim Waschen in der kalten Jahreszeit einige Besonderheiten zu beachten.

QBE Insurance shares are in a trading halt after reports its United States business is being investigated by regulators.

The investigation was opened before the start of the cottage-cheese boycott last summer.

An investigation has been launched into the €3.4bn (£2.8bn) collapse of Wind Hellas and former shareholders Apax, TPG and Weather Group, as well as its advisers, Morgan Stanley and Ernst & Young.

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is set to pay more than $1 billion to resolve a U.S. civil investigation into the marketing of its Risperdal antipsychotic drug, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources.

ONE ISSUE THAT demands more attention in the scandal surrounding D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5) is the role played by the independent non-profit that administers city grant money for youth programs. Was it a lack of proper controls, susceptibility to political pressure or perhaps both that resulted in funds intended for children’s baseball going, as alleged, to Mr. Thomas? Did ...

Nearly three dozen federal lawmakers Wednesday demanded an investigation into the relationship between the CIA and NYPD in the police department's monitoring of New York Muslims.

Japanese prosecutors raid the HQ of camera firm Olympus as part of an ongoing investigation into accounting practices.

NEW YORK – NATO’s deadly airstrikes in Libya, which led to the collapse of the Gaddafi regime, killed and wounded dozens of civilians, but the alliance has largely refused to investigate the casualties, The New York Times reported on Sunday. NATO claimed that during the war, and in statements since… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Russia's space agency says its unsuccessful Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, will probably fall back to Earth early next month.

EU antitrust regulators accepted concessions offered by International Business Machines Corp to end an antitrust investigation and avert a possible fine, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

TOKYO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The Japanese arm of Ernst & Young is setting up an external panel to probe its audit of Olympus Corp amid questions over whether it and prior auditor KPMG could have been...

Das Projekt "Quaestia" will Schülern helfen, das richtige Fach zu finden. Sie begleiten Studenten eine Woche rund um die Uhr - auch in die Mensa, die WG und auf Partys.

ITALIAN DEFENCE group Finmeccanica SpA said yesterday it had appointed its chief executive, Giuseppe Orsi, as chairman of the group after Pier Francesco Guarguaglini resigned from the position in the wake of a growing corruption probe.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Heads of China's solar industry on Tuesday said they "strongly oppose" an investigation by the U.S. into Chinese-made solar panels and asserted that competitive advantages alone...

Indulging in celebrity gossip is as difficult to stop as eating potato chips. And the Leveson inquiry gives you an excuse to gorge

Beim Fußball-Bundesligisten SC Freiburg wird der spanische Linksverteidiger Fernando Vega zur Probe am Training teilnehmen.

Paris prosecutors drop an inquiry into claims that ex-French President Jacques Chirac and ex-PM Dominique de Villepin were given up to $20m by African leaders.

Die Euro-Krise stellt die deutsche Wirtschaft auf eine harte Probe: Die fünf Wirtschaftsweisen rechnen für 2012 nur noch mit einem mageren Wachstum. Verschärft sich die Krise, drohe Deutschland sogar eine Rezession.

Consumers—price-skittish and feature-wary—aren't buying the big new screens. But with innovative programming and big sports events in 2012, retail sales and TV makers' share prices could soon sparkle again.