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Occupy this: the trash bin. At least, so say students at Michigan's Lake Superior State University who released an annual list of words they deem so misused, overused and cliched they should be banished in the year ahead.

The United States has signed a $3.5 billion sale of an advanced antimissile interception system to the United Arab Emirates, part of an accelerating military buildup of its friends and allies near Iran.

Iran said it had delayed its promised long-range missile tests in the Persian Gulf on Saturday and signaled it was ready for fresh talks with the West on its disputed nuclear program.

Now there are concerns the closures (if they are permanent) will hurt tourism to the islands.

A nuclear-powered Iran poses a grave threat not only to the Jewish state, but to the entire Middle East, warned Israeli defense chief.

The Middle East saber-rattling heightened Friday as Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired salvos at the West and claimed the United States could not frighten them out of blocking the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

For John Salemme, the mention of Egypt brings to my mind one thing: a lonely, tearful train ride on New Year’s Eve.

As Ron Paul has climbed to the top of the polls in Iowa, his supporters have learned the hard way that with increased relevance comes increased scrutiny.

The sale coincides with rising tensions in the Middle East between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and its Shia-dominated enemy Iran, which is believed to be developing nuclear weapons.

An Israeli man convicted of killing his former boss and five of his family members after being fired has been sentenced to six life prison sentences by the Petah Tikva District Court, one for each of the six members of the family he murdered.

Rumors have persisted for many years that Gaddafi might have been Jewish.

IBM, the No. 2 U.S. computer services provider, inked a 10-year services contract with Spain’s biggest savings bank, La Caixa, valued at 2 billion Euros (US $2.6 billion).

Republican candidate Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman resigned Wednesday and endorsed rival Ron Paul, six days before Iowa voters begin the nomination process to select the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist group TeaMp0isoN said Wednesday evening that it had taken down four Colombian government websites, all of which are now shuttered and bear the words TeaMp0ison, a YouTube clip and a short message on a black background.

Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Wednesday.

The charges that Paul is racist and anti-Semitic are nothing new.

Who will be the five people to shape 2012? It could be anyone on list, or it could be none of them. Such is the state of geopolitics at this important moment in history.

Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino both have films set for 2012 release

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is absolutely not an anti-Semite even though he is most certainly anti-Israeli in general and wishes that the Israeli state did not exist at all, according to his former aide.

Israeli archaeologists said on Sunday they had found a 2,000-year-old clay seal near Jerusalem's Western Wall, confirming written accounts of ritual practices in the biblical Jewish Temple.

At least 39 people are reported dead in Nigeria after a series of church bombings during holiday services and one suicide bomber attack by Muslim extremists left a horrifying mark on Christmas Day. As world leaders condemn the attacks, Nigerians ask why President Jonathon failed to prevent them, with some youths rioting and setting up burning barricades in the street.