Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit, world leaders are returning to Rio de Janeiro to negotiate further progress toward sustainable development. However, the potential for this year?s Rio+20 Summit to have a similar impact is less likely.
A new policy to halt deportations of young undocumented immigrants has already boosted President Barack Obama's standing among Latino voters.
?The new government in Greece must fulfill their commitments quickly,? says German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
China also towed some of its fishing vessels out of the area as the storm approached but reportedly left surveillance vessels behind.
A Samsonite scare that a brand of luggage made by the company may contain unusually high levels of a cancer-causing agent led Samsonite to pull the luggage off of Hong Kong shelves.
It's been overlooked -- it's received very little coverage by the popular press -- but it's worth repeating: one benefit of the U.S. health care reform legislation will be: enhanced employee mobility.
Greeks woke this morning to a confusing result that, while tilting ever so slightly toward the pro-bailout parties, does little to ease the threat of a devastating exit from the euro zone that still hangs over Athens.
After the Church bombings, two of which occurred in the city of Zaria and one in Kaduna City, a mob of Christians in Kaduna state retaliated by killing more than 50 people.
The BRICS are expected to release data Monday on their contributions to the International Monetary Fund/European bailout package at the G-20 Summit in Mexico.
Germany remains skeptical that anything positive will be accomplished in Greece anytime soon.
John Edwards' legal troubles might be over but the former U.S. senator and ex-presidential candidate's tumultuous personal life is about to be put through the wringer again, courtesy of ex-mistress Rielle Hunter's tell-all book to be released next week.
Iran has been suspected of developing nuclear weapons, and the world powers in the Russian capital will spend two days trying to get Tehran to stop the enrichment and storage of uranium to 20 percent and open a secret military facility to United Nations inspectors.
A deft political move by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, has all but annulled the significance of the presidential elections.
President Barack Obama's announcement of a new policy that could prevent hundreds of thousands of deportations coincided with a rise in the percentage of Americans who see immigration in a positive light.
The Socialists and their cohorts now control 315 seats in the 577-seat Assembly -- marking the first time in 30 years that Socialists have enjoyed such dominance in the French government.
Indian markets fell Monday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that the key rates would remain unchanged.
A member of the committee in charge of Egypt's presidential election said that Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsy was leading, soon after the group's declaration that its candidate had won the first presidential race in the post-Mubarak era.
The Reserve Bank of India disappointed the industry as it left the repo rate and cash reserve ratio unchanged at 8 percent and 4.75 percent, respectively, in its mid-quarter policy review Monday. The reverse repo rate, at which banks lend money to the RBI, also remains unchanged at 7 percent.
Notwithstanding India's strong opposition to the Taliban, the religious extremist group Sunday praised New Delhi for resisting the U.S. call for greater involvement in Afghanistan.
India despite its slowing economic growth is poised to emerge as the top sixth wealth market in the world, according to Datamonitor's 2012 global wealth market report.
As ballots cast in Egypt's presidential election continue to be counted on Sunday, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the country's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, has renewed the military's commitment to hand over power to a civilian authority on July 1.
Leaders of the center-right New Democracy party and the left Syriza party -- Antonis Samaras and Alexis Tsipras, respectively -- agree on one thing: The former party won, and the latter party lost Greece's snap parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Rodney King?s death has brought back to light the fragile state of race relations in Los Angeles two decades ago. But lesser known are King?s own struggles and demons after that fateful night in 1991 that left him the unlikely symbol of racial inequality and tension in America.
Greece's New Democracy conservatives are set to win the crucial election expected to determine the country's future in the euro zone, an official projection from the Interior Ministry showed Sunday night.
A new Obama administration initiative that could allow thousands of young immigrants to avoid deportation and find work is fully within the president's legal powers, a top administration official said on Sunday.
Francois Hollande?s party and its allies will gain at least 312 seats in the 577-seats National Assembly.
the two parties which support austerity, ND and Pasok, with a total of 159 seats, would have a slight majority.
The latest exit poll from Antenna has ND grabbing between 28.6 percent and 30 percent of the tally.
The pro-bailout New Democracy Party and the anti-bailout far-left Syriza party are expected to finish in a dead heat.
Earlier exit polls suggested that Syriza and New Democracy (which supports bailout and austerity) are running neck and neck, with about 28 percent of the electorate each.
