WORLD

Four reported dead as Egyptian Islamists and secularists fight by the thousands in the streets around the presidential palace.

The Syrian military is prepared to use chemical weapons against its own people and is awaiting final orders from President Bashar al-Assad, NBC reported Wednesday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.

The Oklahoma senator called for raising tax rates, and the Treasury secretary threatened to let events take their course.

The Texas Nationalist Movement is forming a PAC, but their cause is unlikely and constitutionally impossible.

George Ochoa was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in Oklahoma's sixth execution this year.

Brazilian authorities in Rio have carried out a crackdown on police corruption, arresting more than 60 officers.

Alan K. Simpson busted Gangnam Style moves to promote his petition that aims to avoid the fiscal cliff.

Iran’s Ministry of Health estimates that between 4,000 and 5,000 people die every year in Tehran due to air pollution.

Poor Americans, on average, are likely to stay poor, according to the Congressional Research Service.

The Serbian Ambassador to Nato Branislav Milinkovic died Tuesday after plunging to his death from a multilevel parking garage at an airport in Brussels.

Israel has granted the country's first gay divorce, despite the fact that gay marriage is not legal in the country.

As the president works to get the corporate execs' support, Republicans want him to put another fiscal cliff offer on the table.

For Pakistan’s Hindus, the larger issue is the threats posed to its very existence by a state founded as an Islamic republic.

27 people were reported injured on Wednesday as protests continue against the Egypt's constitution draft and President Morsi.

The dubious distinction of having the world's most corrupt government is shared by three countries this year.

If no compromise is reached, then one side would suffer the most in voters' minds, and it's not the president's.

For propaganda purposes, North Korea seeks to elevate the status of Kim Jong-il.

Producers now reportedly need permission before booking Rove and fellow Republican booster Dick Morris on Fox News.

A deputy U.S. marshal was arrested in South Texas on Tuesday for allegedly disclosing the identity of an undercover agent to his father, who at the time was suspected of involvement in a drug-trafficking organization, federal prosecutors said.

The former president, who unsuccessfully tried to get a reform bill passed, calls for his party to rethink its approach.

Ghana will be home to Africa's largest solar power plant by 2015, setting a precedent for a continent where renewable energy is key to development.

Switzerland's intelligence agency has issued warnings to the U.S. and UK of a massive data leak that involved counter-terrorism information.

President Obama is expected to announce his secretaries of state and defense nominees in the next 2 weeks. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is on the short list for DOD head.

The U.N. expressed concern for the health of jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who ended her second hunger strike today.

Ukraine faces economic uncertainty amid the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

Americans For Tax Fairness is thanking the (very) conservative congressman for speaking out against the Republican leadership.

NATO announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to deploy patriot missiles as a defensive measure for Turkey.

Sources say Bloomberg called Clinton and asked her for her feelings on possibly becoming mayor of New York.

South Africa unveils a strange new surveillance craft to monitor the poachers driving the rhino population to extinction.