
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — After more than two weeks of silence amid Iran’s violent election fallout, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani — a key Iranian cleric — emerged Sunday to call out “suspicious sources” who are creating a rift between the public and the Islamic government.
He called the aftermath of the June 12 presidential [...]

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called the death of Neda Agha-Soltan “suspicious” and urged the country’s authorities to identify those responsible for it, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday.
The 26-year-old’s death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government’s official election results since it was captured on [...]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Michael Jackson knew “exactly how his fate would be played out” and feared his death would echo that of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley wrote in an online blog posted Friday morning.
Presley — the daughter of Elvis, the “King of Rock,” and the ex-wife of Jackson, the “King of Pop” [...]

LONDON, England (CNN) — More than 1 in 6 British Airways staff have agreed to work for free, take unpaid leave or work part-time, the airline said Thursday after the announcement of cost-cutting measures last week.
“This is a fantastic first response. I want to thank everyone who has volunteered to help us pull through [...]

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iran said the gunman who killed Neda Agha-Soltan may have mistaken her for the sister of an Iranian “terrorist,” the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday.
Iran blamed the death of the woman known to the world simply as Neda squarely on “those groups who want to create division in the [...]

(CNN) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday, amid speculation over his whereabouts for the last several days, that he has been engaged in an extramarital affair with an Argentinian woman.
“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” the Republican governor told a news conference in Columbia, the state capital. “I developed a relationship with [...]

(CNN) — Four decades have passed since the summer of 1969, when Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and I flew America’s first lunar landing mission.
The passage of time has not faded either the memory of that summer or the importance of what we achieved, for our mission was about more than just exploring the moon.
On July [...]