The Stephens Group LLC of Little Rock is part of an investment group that provided $83 million for a management-led buyout of Jefferson National Financial Corp. of Louisville, Ky., which sells products and services to investment advisers.

Delhi Police Monday moved an application in a court here seeking withdrawal of a case against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly violating the election code and provisions dealing with loudspeakers and other accessories during the 2008 assembly polls.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency says authorities have arrested several people over alleged links to the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Farsi-language service.

On the 12th anniversary of the day his daughter's body was found, Doug Blakie is having to prepare submissions to keep her killer in jail, with a parole hearing to be held for Timothy Taylor in two weeks.

The Rajasthan High Court Monday issued show-cause notices to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director and other officials involved in missing nurse Bhanwari Devi's case for alleged harassment of a Congress legislator's 80-year-old mother in the name of interrogation, a lawyer said.