Amanda Knox's Italian lawyer has filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy, a family spokesman said Monday. In October, an Italian appeals court overturned the young Seattle woman's murder conviction in the 2007 death of her British roommate in Perugia.

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigned Tuesday following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: After a long delay due to legal snags, a skydiver is once again gearing up for a supersonic free-fall that would break a record set 52 years ago.

President Obama's re-election campaign made an about-face late Monday in its opposition to super PACs, encouraging donors to send their unlimited contributions to one such group founded by a former administration spokesman.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School following the arrest of two teachers on lewd conduct charges last week, Superintendent John Deasy told parents at a meeting Monday night.

An Iowa woman has been charged with trying to extort Discovery Communications, the parent company of the TLC network, to either cancel the show or give her $10,000.

Univision and Disney are in negotiations to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said Monday.

Sports Talk's King and Florio analyze the Giants' legacy, Eli's success, Brady, the coaches and more. (NBC Sports)

By msnbc.com news services When Facebook goes public in a few months, will the social media giant decide to list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq?

By Christopher WanjekLiveScience Sex education is failing to reduce adolescent birthrates in conservative states, according to a new study. Perhaps paradoxically, states with a majority conservative population and higher degree of religiosity tend to have higher teen birthrates.

Ongoing violence and a worsening security situation has been further complicated by Russia and China’s decision to block a U.N Security Council resolution on Syria. NBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin reports. (Nightly News)

A Flemish nationalist politician in Belgium has launched a new campaign that taps into anxiety about the country’s immigrant Muslim population, while capitalizing on the svelte figure of his 19-year-old daughter.

Sixty years ago a young Princess Elizabeth was pronounced Queen of England after the sudden death of her father George VI. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports on her remarkable 60 years of service (Nightly News)

A Florida man, who flew his last mission 67 years ago, returned to the skies in a vintage B-17. WTVJ's Hank Tester reports. (NBC News)

The two boys of a Utah man suspected in his wife's disappearance, and then of killing himself and his sons in an intentional fire, suffered from head and neck injuries, officials say.