Sources: MarketWatch
American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is shot dead during a debate at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, United States. 2025-09-10
Russia releases U.S. citizen Marc Fogel, after talks with Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff. 2025-02-11
Facebook, Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, renames itself to Meta Platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the rename was done in order to reflect the company's diversification into other areas, such as virtual reality. 2021-10-28
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that the U.S. will ensure that all American citizens will be evacuated to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. 2021-08-22
Spain's Audiencia Nacional agrees to extradite former CEO of PEMEX Emilio Lozoya Austin to Mexico where he is wanted on charges of bribery and money laundering. He denies any wrongdoing. 2020-07-6
Four hostages, who were being held in northern Burkina Faso, are rescued by French naval commandos, with two French commandos killed during the rescue operation. Those freed include two Frenchmen who had been kidnapped in Benin on May 1 and a pair of women, one an American and the other a South Korean. 2019-05-10
Canadian-American billionaire Edgar M. Bronfman, who ran Seagram until 1994, dies in Manhattan at age 84. 2013-12-21
American author Harper Lee files a lawsuit claiming that a literary agent tricked her into relinquishing the copyright on her book, "To Kill a Mockingbird". 2013-05-4
Ex-CEO of Enron Jeffrey Skilling is in talks with federal prosecutors to discuss a reduction in his sentence. 2013-04-4
Apple Inc. publishes a letter, signed by CEO Tim Cook, to Chinese customers, to address the growing controversy over the company's warranty policies in the country. 2013-04-1