ELECTIONS

Carla Bruni, French first lady on Friday confirmed that she is expecting a child with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

President Jonathan will need to act with great care if Boko Haram bombings are to ever stop in Nigeria.

The Ron Paul for 2012 campaign released its first advertisement on Thursday and boy is it a doozy.

An awful lot is riding on President Jonathan's political skill.

Egypt's interim government has sacked hundreds of police officers in response to demands by protesters of cleaning up corruption on the force, according to state-controlled TV.

Democratic candidates in six Wisconsin recall elections defeated decoy candidates who Republicans encouraged to run, setting the stage for state Senate races widely viewed as referendums on a divisive law that curtailed public unions' collective bargaining rights.

In a country overrun with political unrest, often an investigation is not just an investigation.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul announced on Tuesday that he won't be seeking re-election in the House of Representatives.

Tea Party sweetheart Michelle Bachmann has topped longtime Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney in a recent 2012 presidential election poll of the state of Iowa.

President Barack Obama is pushing for deeper cuts in the U.S. budget that some key Republicans.

Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur is in the grip of unrest, with protests against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government demanding electoral reforms, in a rare display of spill over effect of the Arab Spring into the Southeast Asian Muslim-dominated nation. Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1400 people in the capital on Saturday.

Minutes after learning of an uptick in unemployment in the month of June, Michelle Bachmann quickly wasted no time in using the report as a barometer on Obama's economic policies.

Egyptians are protesting military trials this week, with the largest protest slated to erupt Friday.

A powerful Egyptian leader claims that the September 11th terrorist attacks were made in the USA and the Holocaust is a lie, in a recent interview with The Washington Times.

An exiled prime minister's sister has taken the political seat in Thailand, perhaps ushering back her ousted sibling.

The sister of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra won Sunday's general elections in Thailand.

Ben Ali left in January, but it's old tricks in Tunis, according to Tunisian politicians.

Just after four days of former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's fortune turning brighter, the French economist and politician will again have to face some more or many more court proceedings.

A group of hackers, known as AntiSec, claimed to have a list of 27 usernames and passwords taken from an SQL database from an online surveys hosted on an Apple Inc. Business Intelligence site on Sunday.

The international Egyptian community is planning to take to the streets this Friday, both in North Africa and the Tri-State area.

Yingluck Shinawatra, the 44-year-old youngest sister of the exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, of the Puea Thai Party, is challenging the Democrat incumbent Abhisit Vejjajiva in Sunday’s general polls.