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Critics, including the Obama campaign, lashed out at Romney for saying abortion legislation is not a part of his platform.

As shelling between Turkey and Syria continues, NATO and Turkish officials say they have no interest in repeating a Libya-style campaign.

The attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya was without warning, nor had there ever been anything like it before, State Department officials said ahead of a congressional hearing.

Malala Yousafzai, age 14, has become a symbol of courage and for the right of Pakistani girls to get an education.

Heriberto “The Executioner” Lazcano, leader of the Zetas drug cartel, may be dead, but that doesn't mean he can't escape the grasp of Mexican authorities.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is holding three campaign events in Ohio; Paul Ryan arrives in Kentucky; Hulu begins airing anti-Obama Citizens United documentary.

President Barack Obama will attend his last fundraiser of the 2012 campaign season on Thursday; Jill Biden will reportedly play a greater role in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.

A member of punk band Pussy Riot was freed on appeal on Wednesday but a Moscow court upheld prison sentences for two others imposed over a raucous cathedral protest against Vladimir Putin, who said they had got the jail terms they deserved.

Julia Gillard, Australia's first female PM, landed a stunning blow against male chauvinism in a lengthy broadside in parliament.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 was awarded jointly to American scientists Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka for "for studies of G-protein–coupled receptors" that shed light on how billions of cells in our body interact with their environment, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday.

In two unrelated incidents, a Boston resident who aroused the authorities’ suspicion by carrying hazardous materials and wearing protective gear was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport while two persons were held at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of committing terrorism offenses.

Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who rose to fame for speaking up against the Taliban and for advocating girls’ education which the extremists oppose, was critically injured Tuesday by a gunman in the Swat Valley, northwest of Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad.

NATO is ready to defend Turkey in its escalating confrontation with Syria, the alliance's top official vowed Tuesday.

The Golden Dawn Party has been gaining support amid deepening economic woes and rising frustration with illegal immigration.

The presidential race in the vital state of Ohio has tightened, but President Barack Obama still holds a four-point lead, a CNN poll released Tuesday finds. A New Hampshire poll shows a similar picture.

Just weeks after finalizing a deal to buy American F-16s, the government of Nouri al-Maliki buys missiles and helicopters from Washington's rival on the arms market, too.

To honor Romney's goal of a $5 trillion tax cut would require fiscal decisions that his campaign isn't explaining, experts say.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Knesset will be dissolving and early elections will take place next year.

The court preserves government's power to retroactively protect companies that helped with wiretapping.

The U.N. study said one in eight people in the world, or about 870 million people, suffered from “chronic undernourishment.”

Republican Mitt Romney has erased President Barack Obama's advantage in the race for the White House and the two candidates are now tied among likely voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Tuesday.

The U.N. announced on Tuesday that former Italian Prime Minister, the mild-mannered Romano Prodi, will serve as Special Envoy to the Sahel region in West Africa.

Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs (enemy combatants during the bloody Bosnian war of the early 1990s) unite to press state authorities to pay up for the time they lost while incarcerated in detention camps.

The International Criminal Court is determining whether Saif al-Gaddafi should be tried in The Hague or in Libya, where he could face the death penalty.

The Vietnamese government has condemned members of the ruling Communist Party from having lavish weddings amid growing public outrage.

Women in the West African nation of Ghana retain the notion that fat and voluptuous is attractive and healthy, despite the onslaught of skinny Western models in the local fashion industry.

Obama channeled Seinfeld's George Costanza by making a delayed comeback to Mitt Romney's remarks in their first presidential debate, some critics charge.

Mexican marines have killed a man believed to be the leader of the Zetas drug cartel. While a symbolic victory, the cartel's operations continue under new leadership.

Mitt Romney may yet win the presidency, but voters still don't like him, says the latest poll from ABC News / Washington Post.