KWS estimates that only about 2,000 lions remain in the country, implying they could completely vanish within two decades.
You don't have to go far from China these days to get the taste of living in Europe. There's just one problem: it's all a big fake, as these photos show
Although confusion still abounds, one of Hosni Mubarak's lawyers said on Wednesday that the former Egyptian president is in a stable condition.
The powerful rate-setting committee of the Federal Reserve decided to extend its current strategy of manipulating the credit markets to artificially depress the cost of long-term financing, a strategy colloquially known as Operation Twist, until the end of the year.
Phoenix radio talk show host Barbara Espinosa is in hot water after referring to President Barack Obama as a monkey, and saying she voted for the white guy in the 2004 presidential election.
The State Department released its report ahead of the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln?s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the U.S. South in 1863.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday extended its monetary stimulus to a U.S. economic recovery that looks at risk of stalling, renewing its effort to depress borrowing costs by selling short-term bonds to buy longer-dated ones.
Kuwait's constitutional court has ruled that the current parliament would be dissolved and the previous, pro-dynasty parliament reinstated.
Human rights activists as well as the U.N.?s refugee agency have condemned Bangladesh for its refusal to take in Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar.
The fallout from the failed Fast and Furious program hurtled toward a peak of intensity on Wednesday, as the White House invoked executive privilege in refusing to turn over documents related to the gunrunning program.
The world's rising power is the subject of many stereotypes. Like all stereotypes, they aren't true, but here's what they look like from inside China.
The Republican congressional candidate is standing by his assertion that gun control laws directly led to the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust.
Spanish and Italian bonds received some respite for second day as euro zone leaders look for ways to ease borrowing costs for struggling member states.
A powerful conservative group that has already poured millions into this election cycle is violating campaign finance laws, the Obama administration charged on Tuesday.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) stirred controversy following reports that employees of Apple stores have refused to sell products to customers overheard speaking Farsi, the language of Iran, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement Wednesday.
Afghans have been fleeing their homeland in massive numbers since 1979 when Russian tanks invaded their mountainous nation
The formation of a new Greek government Wednesday staves off fears of a swift departure from the euro zone by the Hellenic Republic. But this week's election and installation of a new administration merely extends the country's economic death-spiral as its economic woes remain deep and pervasive.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is reportedly regaining consciousness after early claims on Wednesday morning that he had slipped into a coma, or perhaps even died.
President Asif Ali Zardari, who is intimately involved in the intrigue surrounding Gilani?s removal from office, has cancelled a trip to Russia in order to deal with the emergency.
After weeks of uncertainty, a Greek government has emerged following talks between Greece's center-right New Democracy party, which won Sunday's parliamentary elections, and the smaller leftist parties that lost seats.
The announcement has received a warm welcome from international leaders, with many praising European efforts to get to the root cause of the debt crisis.
France's BFM-TV said the man had asked to speak to the same elite police unit that shot Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah, who died in a hail of bullets just 100 yards from the scene of today's siege.
The nation's largest public-sector employee union this week selects its first new leader in a generation, and its more than 3,500 delegates, representing about 1.4 million members, must decide which of two candidates is most likely to halt declining membership and shrinking benefits: the one focused on national politics or the one focused on localized activism?
Fitch Ratings Wednesday revised its outlook on 11 India-based financial institutions to negative from stable while affirming the rating. Fitch revised the outlook on the Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited's (IRFC) Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to negative from stable and affirmed the ratings at 'BBB-'.
Clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish militants have intensified after eight soldiers and 10 militants were killed near Turkey's border with Iraq in the worst fighting this year Tuesday.
Romney said Florida's Marco Rubio is being vetted as a candidate for vice president.
However, there is some confusion as to whether he has died or is just near death.
Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for three decades until overthrown by a revolution in the Arab Spring last year, was declared clinically dead by his doctors on Tuesday, the state news agency MENA said in a report confirmed by a hospital source.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with world leaders at the G-20 summit in Mexico, which has largely been focused on reinvigorating a stagnant global economy threatened by the EU's persistent debt crisis.
Was Mitt Romney out of touch when his Wawa moment lit up the Internet yesterday, or was he the victim of selective editing?
