Banking in line with the Koran's prohibition on paying interest is an expanding sector, and the ascent of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt is going to help it grow faster.
The leader of the centrist Kadima, Shaul Mofaz, said he had no choice but to sever his party?s short-lived partnership with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s Likud's party.
Sarah Silverman has a raunchy proposal for Sheldon Adelson: donate $100 million to Barack Obama instead of Mitt Romney and she'll offer to scissor the Las Vegas casino mogul to fruition.
President Obama's weekend statement on India , raising concerns over the invest climate in the country, has evoked sharp criticisms making it further hard for the Indian Prime Minister to go ahead with reforms.
Global beauty pageants make for strange contests, where pop culture and patriotism can often prove a volatile mix.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who recently took over the charge of the Finance Ministry, has set up an expert committee to review and finalize the controversial General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), which the foreign investors say are not investor-friendly.
As Thai citizens become increasingly involved in their country's political processes, the very presence of a dynastically appointed king begins to look more and more anachronistic.
As the son of Indian immigrants, Jindal would ease Romney’s image of being the candidate of rich, white, country club WASPs.
Although Sen. John McCain had indicated he would support the Democratic-backed DISCLOSE Act, he is opposing the bill along with the rest of the Senate GOP.
Though former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she has no interest in being vice president, reports have surfaced that she is the front runner on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's ticket.
In an anonymous letter, a former member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has criticized Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and pointed to signs of unrest within Tehran's elite military forces.
Events in Libya and Egypt highlight the potential benefits of United States human rights promotion -- both for the U.S. and for people across the world -- as well as the downsides of America's failure to pursue that task.
The Taliban, and its reclusive leader, Mullah Omar, are likely to ignore Hamid Karzai?s entreaties.
The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Beijing to honor the ASEAN's code of conduct formed to resolve the territorial tensions in the South China Sea during a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) conference in Cambodia.
As President Barack Obama pivots to make income inequality a focus of his campaign, income and wealth disparities are widening to alarming proportions.
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, on a near party-line vote of 244-185, passed a bill on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that he will respect a court ruling that overturned his attempt to reinstate the lower house of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the Military Council last month prior to the Islamist leader's election victory.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's administration said it will release a list of 180,000 voters in Florida whose citizenship status is in question.
The Nigerian Supreme Court ruled that the sale of a Nigerian aluminum enterprise to Russian conglomerate RUSAL was in fact illegal. Instead, Nigeria's ALSCON should have gone to the original highest bidder: a U.S. firm called BFI.
A Texas voter identification law currently being argued in court could rob minorities of their right to vote, Attorney General Eric Holder told the National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesday.
Although Florida's school prayer bill -- technically known as an inspiration message law -- technically went into effect on Sunday, state officials say only one school district has even considered implementing the law.
Libya?s new ?liberal? government may distance itself from the West and from NATO, which helped rebels free the country from Moammar Gadhafi.
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