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A Senate vote early Tuesday morning is possible; if it passes, the House would review the bill Tuesday afternoon.

U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters he expects 100,000 more Syrians to die if the conflict is not resolved quickly

More than 34,000 people qualified to apply for only 90 trainee jobs that were advertised.

Some AAA clubs will offer free towing services to New Year's Eve revelers too drunk to drive home, but the program is not nationwide and varies from state to state.

Many observers condemned India’s historical mistreatment of and violence directed at women.

Police investigators prepare to file formal charges against the six accused -- charges that will now also include murder.

The U.S. House announced that there will not be a budget vote Mon night, ensuring that the U.S. will go over the cliff for at least 1 day.

Under the Indian Penal Code it is against the law to identify a rape victim.

Al-Qaeda has apparently announced a bounty of $160,000 for the head of the U.S. ambassador to Yemen.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized in New York on Sunday after doctors discovered that a blood clot had formed, the State Department said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 65, is expected to remain at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for the next 48 hours.

U.S. Senate leaders were hammering out a last-minute deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" on Monday, but it's unclear if lawmakers will back it.

Malala Yousafzai’s concern about the decision to shift the Delhi gang-rape victim to a foreign hospital is shared by many in India.

U.S. President Barack Obama says a tax-cut bill will be waiting in the wings should Washington fail to reach a fiscal-cliff agreement.

U.S. President Barack Obama appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning to discuss a wide range of issues facing the nation as the year draws to a close. His remarks touched on topics ranging from gun control and the fiscal cliff to the Benghazi consulate attack and congressional gridlock.

The U.S. Senate continued to work on a bipartisan budget bill Sunday, while Obama administration officials prepared a back-up bill.

Sen, an immigrant from India who had lived in the U.S. for twenty years.

The FBI has labeled Mogilevich as the “most dangerous mobster in the world.”

At least 20 people were killed and more than 20 were injured Sunday, when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims, in southwest Pakistan.

The Delhi gang-rape victim died Saturday, but even the public outrage may not be enough to change things for women in India.

The Iranian war games of Velayat 91 kicked off in the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.

The young girl dreamed of becoming a doctor and enjoyed her parent’s full support.

The young woman’s ordeal appears to have inspired a massive amount of self-reflection in India.

A French constitutional court has ruled against President Francois Hollande's flagship 75 percent tax rate on millionaires.

Children who have stayed indoors because of radiation fears due to Japan's nuclear disaster last year are now facing higher rates of obesity.

If Congress cannot reach a bipartisan deal to avert the fiscal cliff, then it should vote on a forthcoming Senate package, the president says.

In a show of readiness -- or perhaps just good humor -- the British government has formally responded to a member of the public’s inquiry about how it would treat a zombie apocalypse.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's firing of his health minister, the only woman in his government, reveals an Iranian power structure in disarray.

The Senate passed an extension of the foreign intelligence law that permits tapping Americans' communications without authorization.