The Indian economy would see in this fiscal year its weakest growth rate in the past 10 years as the policy gridlocks and global economic uncertainties weigh heavily on the country.
Seventeen months into the Syrian crisis, with numerous worsening instances of blood-chilling violence and massacre, everything still stays the same because the big players are waiting for the right moment to intervene.
Israel accused Iran of carrying out a bomb attack that killed six people on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport Wednesday, and vowed a stern response to Iranian terror.
Pressed by foreign creditors to produce 11.5 billion euros in spending cuts in 2013 and 2014, Greek leaders said Wednesday they had identified areas that could be trimmed.
Capital One agreed to pay $210 million to resolve two regulatory cases arising from its crooked marketing and billing practices.
An animal rights campaign underscores the power activists have to pressure companies to stop using inhumane suppliers.
Today is a turning point in Syria's history,” said the chief of the Syrian National Council, Abdelbasset Seida,
It's as if the campaign is asking me to imagine that I am the president's child and he my benevolent father.
Relatives of U.S. citizens killed by drone strikes in Yemen have filed a lawsuit against senior members of the Obama administration, the latest legal challenge to the president's aggressive use of armed drones.
The deaths of major Syrian military leaders in a spectacular strike on the capital are tipping the playing field, but don't expect the conflict to end anytime soon.
The newest movie incarnation of DC Comics superhero Batman, which features a protagonist who retroactively un-retires to save fictional Gotham City from a ruthless terrorist, is causing a ruckus among Washington politicos, at least one of whom has claimed the film's plotline will subliminally discredit REpublican Party nominee Mitt Romney in voters' minds.
Christians in the Gaza Strip staged public protests earlier this week, claiming that five members of their small community had been kidnapped by Islamists with the intention of forcibly converting them to Islam.
The Syrian regime repeatedly thwarted efforts by Israel and European governments (including Germany, France and Austria) to extradite Brunner for decades, sometimes even denying he was in the country.
The United States has the military capacity to defeat any Iranian attempt to shut down sea commerce in the oil-rich Gulf region and will hold Tehran directly responsible for shipping disruptions, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday.
As Washington struggles to address America's intensifying fiscal woes, it is getting help from an independent and growing brigade of budget experts, business tycoons and civic leaders.
The Basic Law guarantees subsistence-level support for a life in decent conditions as a human right, the court said.
Assad’s power is likely eroding due to the wave of defections he has suffered that past few months.
History isn’t just what’s happened. It’s also what happened in the context of what might have occurred. This isn’t counterfactual history -- it’s a way to illustrate what was at stake.
Nelson Mandela's birthday is Wednesday, and admirers of the influential former South African president have filled the Internet with tributes to the once-jailed leader who brought South Africa out of an era of apartheid.
The new Syrian defense minister, General Fahd al-Furayj, vowed to find and punish the culprits behind the bomb attack
President Barack Obama's reelection campaign has sued Ohio over a law restricting early voting, arguing that the law discourages some Ohioans from being able to cast ballots.
The average Briton consumer now dispatches 50 text messages per week, or more than 150 billion such messages in total last year (double the number in just four years).
Now even fellow Republicans are pressuring Mitt Romney to make public more tax returns. But the presidential candidate may already have decided that going public would be more damaging than keeping mum
Seeking to avoid another extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's top earners, Senate Democrats unveiled a plan to let tax breaks expire for all Americans and then implement a separate tax cut for middle-class Americans.
Investigators in Arizona are calling out President Barack Obama, saying that the birth certificate released by the White House in April 2011 is definitely fraudulent. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the man who is spearheading the investigation, said in March that he believed there was probable cause that Obama's long-form birth certificate was a product of computer-generated forgery.
Mandela's achievements were monumental, but some of his tactics and alliances were more questionable than others.
A bomb destroyed 22 of NATO's oil-tanker trucks parked alongside a road in northern Samangan province overnight. The fire from the massive explosion was still burning Wednesday morning.
On Wednesday, opposition leader Shaul Mofaz called to end the polticial circus over whether, or when, ultra-Orthodox and Arab Israelis must serve in the military.
The interior minister and the intelligence chief, Hisham Bekhityar, were reportedly wounded in Wednesday's attack, Lebanese Hezbollah TV claimed.
The U.S. officially Tuesday confirmed that shots were fired by a U.S. Navy vessel, killing an Indian national and injuring three others off a Dubai port Monday afternoon, Indian officials said.
