WORLD

The Obama campaign and the president’s Democratic allies have been pushing a particularly disappointing bit of fiction on the campaign trail lately.

Angelina Jolie visited a Syrian refugee camp on the Jordanian border on Tuesday, and listened to the stories of several of the newest arrivals. The UN said there are about 2,000 people crossing the border from Syria every day.

Catalan represents 15 percent of Spain’s population, but produces about one-fifth of the country’s GDP.

Hassan Sheik Mohamud was just elected president of the volatile country of Somalia. With a new constitution and parliament behind him, it's full steam ahead. But can he reverse the country's 21-year curse of failed statehood?

On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The terrorists went on to pilot the aircrafts in a series of attacks that would end up claiming the lives of 3,000 people.

The world's second-largest platinum producer said striking South African miners are demanding another 8 to 10 percent pay hike like the one they received in April that ended a six-week strike.

On Monday, Al-Qaeda confirmed that the head of Al-Qaeda's operations in Yemen had been killed. On Tuesday, the Yemeni Defense Minister survived an assassination attempt in the form of a car bomb.

The traditional offering of thanks to a teacher is no longer good enough in Chinese schools. All too often, words are now being backed up with expensive gifts, luxury items, and money.

No political dirt will be thrown about Tuesday as Obama and Romney have agreed to take negative campaign ads off the air to honor the 9/11 anniversary.

India currently has 20 operational nuclear power reactors in India in six states. Seven more plants are under construction and at least 36 more projects are on the drawing board.

Perennial battleground states Ohio and Florida top the list of where the Obama and Romney campaigns are spending, and that is not unexpected. Pennsylvania, though, is very far from the top -- and that is a big surprise.

Turkey's Prime Minister said on Tuesday that exiled Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi will not be extradited to Iraqi to face the death penalty.

These uninhabited rocks barely merit a few unnamed spots on Google Maps between Okinawa and Taiwan, but they have become a symbol of a much larger struggle over who controls what waters -- and what mineral resources lay beneath them -- in the East China Sea.

Larry Flynt, the American magazine publisher known for the creation of Hustler magazine, has offered $1 million for damaging information about Mitt Romney's finances.

The arrest of freelance cartoonist and free-speech activist Aseem Trivedi on charges that his cartoons were derogatory to the Indian constitution has sparked widespread furor in India.

The Hungarian government has filed formal war crimes charges against former Communist Interior Minister Bela Biszku, who is nearly 91 years old. If found guilty, Biszku could potentially spend the rest of his life in jail.

China has more Internet users than any other country in the world has inhabitants. Is that mass of people going to push for greater freedom? Not with government controls as stringent as they are now.

The homeless problem in Denmark is unlikely to ease anytime soon. Net unemployment is now at 4.7 percent, the highest level in six years. Labor Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that the unemployment rate will continue to climb into 2013.

The most important court decision of 2012 will take place Wednesday in Germany, when the red-robed justices of the German Constitutional Court hand down a decision for which it is no hyperbole to say it could change the course of history. The Court is expected to rule over whether Germany is barred from contributing to the European Stability Mechanism, Europe's all-purpose bailout fund of which the German state is the major planned benefactor.

Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in the Arabian Peninsula, Said al-Shihri, and six others were killed in a missile strike in Yemen's Hadramawt province Monday, the U.S. and Yemeni officials said. The missile was fired from a U.S.-operated unmanned drone.

The Taliban on Monday threatened to kidnap or kill British royal family member Prince Harry who has begun serving his new deployment in Afghanistan as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, four years after his first term was cut short because of untoward publicity.

Hours before the 11th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the dispute that has virtually stalled construction on the 9-11 museum was resolved, officials said Monday evening.

On the eve of the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in western Pennsylvania, "the final resting place of American patriots."

Customer sites operated by private GoDaddy.com reported major computer problems Monday due to an apparent cyberattck by Anonymous. Last winter, Intyernet activists attacked GoDaddy.com for its support of the Stop Online Privacy Act.

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement at the opening of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Summit in Vladivostok, Russia on Sunday.

For all of us who grew up with ample access to sports and the arts, it's difficult to see how our school systems have evolved, practically eliminating the character-building program of sports participation.

The Taliban has denied claims that it is willing to negotiate a ceasefire with U.S.-led NATO troops, rejecting an analysis by a group of Western academics who sat down for private discussions with former Talban officials.

Eleven years later, the men at the forefront of both sides of the 9/11 attacks are variously retired, in jail, or dead.

French billionaire Bernard Arnault is seeking Belgian citizenship just as France's Socialist President Hollande sets out to raise taxes on the wealthy, raising fears about a mass exodus of French investors and jobs creators.