Spears barely beat out other celebs to seven figures on Google+, including Google CEO Larry Page and rapper Snoop Dogg.

Toyota's 2011 production was hampered by the March earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan which disrupted supply chains.

House Members spotlighted Turkey's decades of repression of the Christian communities within modern-day Turkey's borders.

The Israeli acknowledged that his company violates Facebook's terms of use, but says many U.S. companies offer similar services.

An estimated $150 billion of assets were frozen around the world after the Security Council ordered sanctions against Gaddafi.

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev last met on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Hawaii in November 2011.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 British-American action mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie.

The situation in Iran takes a new turn. According to media reports, Iran has discovered in the Caspian Sea a natural gas field with the volume of 1.42 trillion cubic meters, lying in waters 700 meters deep. According to Minister of Petroleum Rostam Ghasemi, the field wholly lies within Iranian maritime boundaries and may 5 times exceed the volume of hitherto known gas reserves in the Iranian part of the Caspian Sea.