Even the president of South Sudan recognizes that true independence has not been achieved, but China and Japan may help change that.
Ron Paul's 2012 campaign for the GOP presidential nod is officially dead in the water if he can't pull off a coup Saturday in Nebraska's state nominating convention.
The Saudi interior ministry said that there had been no clashes between police and protesters in Awamiya, but activists said that live fire had been used by security forces during similar demonstrations.
Russia?s President Vladimir Putin also said that both sides of the Syrian conflict must enter into peace negotiations.
China is finishing a major housing project outside Luanda, paid for with oil, but nobody's buying. To do so, the average Angolan would need to work 160 years.
The West African regional bloc ECOWAS is calling for the creation of a national unity government in Mali in order to take urgent steps to confront the terrorist peril in the north of the country.
The Wall Street Journal (Nasdaq: NWSA) and AOL Inc.'s (NYSE:AOL) Huffington Post spar over the facts surrounding recent allegations that Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) employees have denied sale of iPads to Farsi speakers.
President Barack Obama on Monday called for ending the so-called Bush tax cuts for the rich while preserving those cuts for Americans earning below $250,000 a year.
With the government failing to step in to resolve the dispute -- as it has done three times since 2007 -- Statoil, BP and Eni are preparing to instigate a full closure of output at midnight on Monday, cutting off more than 2 million barrels of oil, natural gas liquids and condensate per day.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has rejected two prominent elements of President Obama's health care overhaul, joining an exodus of Republican-led states that are using a Supreme Court decision upholding the law to opt out of some key features.
Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a key witness to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, has agreed to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's new defense team. Rhodes told CNN earlier this year she believed Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone in the assassination of the former U.S. senator.
The White House has invited Egypt's recently elected president Mohammad Mursi to visit the U.S. in September, as the latest Obama administration effort to reach out to Egypt's newly empowered Islamists.
The long-anticipated showdown between Egypt's military and its new president -- the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi -- has opened, with Morsi, the SCAF and the Supreme Court heading into a three-way contest.
More than 1.3 million requests for information about mobile telephone subscribers came from police and other law enforcement agencies last year, the New York Times reported.
President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 per year, according to a White House official, seeking to spare the economy the impact of taxes going up on Jan. 1.
If you are reading this online, then the computer you're using is not infected with the DNS Changer Malware. However, those who haven't bothered to remove the malicious software lost internet access at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
The widely admired opposition leader recently returned from a whirlwind tour through Europe.
The rise comes ahead of a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Monday, where the delegates are expected to announce the details of the Spanish bank bailout.
Assad also specifically singled out the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey of supporting the ?terrorists? who are seeking his overthrow.
A panel constituted by India's Finance Ministry to look into the implementation of the controversial General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) policy Monday decided to reduce the number of illustrative examples in the draft guidelines.
India's Reliance Communications has set a price range of over $1billion for its undersea cable unit's initial public offering in Singapore.
The territorial dispute in the South China Sea is expected to drive the talks during the 19th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) beginning Monday in Cambodia. The confrontational rhetoric between China and the U.S. over the South China Sea will also form the focus of the discussions that will be attended by top officials from the 10 member nations.
The Indian rupee Monday breached the 56-mark to reach 56.03 against the dollar on weak global cues and heavy demand for the U.S. currency from banks and importers.
A video of the brutal public slaying of an Afghan woman by a militant, believed to be a member of the Taliban, was caught on camera last month near Kabul, laying bare the perilously unstable law and order situation in Afghanistan, ahead of the planned withdrawal of NATO troops in 2014.
The rate of inflation in China slowed down in June from the previous month, showing signs of a gradual decline in price pressure to make room for monetary easing.
Scranton, Pa., Mayor Chris Doherty is in a deadlock with the city council and public-employee unions over budgetary issues. Unfortunately, 400 workers are having trouble paying their bills because of the blame game.
The sand is running out of the hourglass for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday. Her words speak to the recent intensification of the standoff between Western powers and the Syrian regime.
Cutting federal spending in 2012 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure and public works projects now and in the immediate quarters ahead, it would create millions of jobs.
On Sunday, Sen. John McCain criticized the Obama administration for its failure to take decisive action against the Syrian regime.
A new novel by Yale Law professor and writer Stephen L. Carter gives us a bizarre alternate outcome of the Abraham Lincoln presidency, had it not been cut short by John Wilkes Booth.
