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Mitt Romney has extended his lead over President Barack Obama to 3 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released Thursday.

Tonight's Joe Biden-Paul Ryan debate took on vital importance after Mitt Romney's strong performance last week.

Look for live debate coverage here at the International Business Times beginning at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

Paul Ryan has reportedly been meticulously reviewing Biden's Senate vote and policy positions in the weeks leading up to Thursday's debate.

Claiming they invented the pizza, Neapolitans are outraged that an Italian magazine said northerners make the best pizza.

The survey showed 74 percent would rather have the president as a roommate while only 26 percent preferred Romney.

A Hong Kong couple are suing a tutor to whom they paid $2 million to get their kids into the Ivy League school in the U.S., only to have their money stolen.

Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the surveillance drone that breached Israeli airspace this weekend.

National Security Minister of Trinidad and Tobago ordered police to stop publishing crime statistics.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Lebanon's Hezbollah for the drone that breached Israeli airspace this weekend.

The U.N.'s first International Day of the Girl focused on ending child marriage, a practice that affects 10 million girls worldwide.

Global hunger levels have generally been decreasing, though they remain high in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and could get worse amid increasing scarcity of natural resources.

A new report reveals that illegal fishing operations that bring catches from West Africa to Europe are pervasive and sophisticated.

There are sharp contrasts between Biden and Ryan, and those differences are sure to be showcased during tonight’s vice presidential debate.

Paul said GOP presidential nominee Romney is wrong regarding Middle East policy, and about defense spending.

The danger posed to humans by cattle -- generally viewed as slow and docile creatures -- is no joke.

Thursday's event could shape the narrative of the final weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign.

The shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai has sparked outrage and revulsion on a global scale.

Qassem Aqlani, a 20-year U.S. Embassy veteran, was shot in a drive-by motorcycle shooting by a masked gunman.

Ryan hits the books for the last time before tonight's VP debate against Biden; Ann Romney campaigns for husband Mitt.

Turkish jet fighters intercepted a Syrian passenger airplane on Wednesday night, which they claim had weapons on board.

While Biden preps for the vice-presidential debate, Obama heads south to the University of Miami for a campaign rally.

Free live streams of the debate, which kicks off at 9 p.m. EDT at Centre College in Danville, Ky., are offered on nearly a dozen websites.

Northern Ireland, though a part of the UK, has very restrictive abortion laws.

Hindi and English have enjoyed an incestuous relationship ever since the British first landed in India.

Forced evictions, often involving violence and harassment, are on the rise in China as local authorities seek to offset the huge debts by seizing and then selling off land to real estate developers, Amnesty International said Thursday.

The U.S. has sent troops to Jordan to assist the government in handling the flood of Syrian refugees besides bolstering its military capabilities and monitoring chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama promised a better debate performance when he faces Mitt Romney again next week, in an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer Wednesday night.

Yet another poll shows Mitt Romney overtaking President Barack Obama after last week’s debate