French voters turned out in force Sunday in the second round of presidential elections that are likely to make Nicolas Sarkozy the 11th European leader to be swept from office by the economic crisis.
Polling began in Greece Sunday in an early general election that could push the debt struck country to further turmoil and uncertainty.
Both the center-right New Democracy and the center-left Pasok parties could be in for beatings on Sunday as Greece conducts its first general parliamentary elections since the country's sovereign-debt crisis mushroomed in late 2009.
The resignation of Mitt Romney's foreign-policy spokesman, Richard Grenell, on Tuesday has led to a weeklong controversy for the campaign of the Republican Party's 2012 presumptive presidential nominee.
An estimated 144 people were injured when a cluster of balloons exploded at a political rally in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Friday. The explosion was caused by a cigarette that was lit near the balloons, according to the Associated Press.
A Colorado blue spruce from a tree farm in New Jersey was planted near the White House a little more than a year ago. The National Park Service has now confirmed that the tree, planted in March of last year, has died due to transplant shock.
In accordance with global May Day celebrations, the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia has introduced a minimum wage for the first time, following a decade of pressure by labor unions.
What inspires China's energetic Internet community? Why is the government so worried about it?
The Royal Canadian Mint's manufacturing facility in Winnipeg Friday produced Canada's last penny, marking the end of the era of one cent coins.
A US drone attack targeting a Taliban militant compound in Pakistan has killed nine people Saturday, Pakistani authorities have alleged.
Labeled the Sopranos of the Afghanistan war, the Haqqanis have built themselves from what was once a rebel force bent on removing the Russians in the 1980s into a Mafia-like organization dealing in smuggling, extortion, and assassination.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, will be formally arraigned -- along with four alleged co-conspirators -- in a military court at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Saturday. Each faces the death penalty.
At the end of the high-level strategic talks between the U.S. and China, both countries have vowed to improve relations and to prevent human rights from becoming a major diplomatic stumbling block.
Iranians and Arabs fiercely disagree over what to call the Gulf between them, leading Google to leave the body of water nameless.
The conservative think tank's billboard campaign features the Unabomber, Charles Manson and Fidel Castro.
Tanzania, one of the poorest countries of earth, has long been shackled by corruption and exorbitant inflation.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is getting election-year heat from two prominent Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Did Dominique Strauss-Khan, the former IMF chief whose career was shattered amid accusations he raped a New York hotel maid, participate in an alleged group rape in Washington, D.C? French investigators are exploring the possibility as they probe the once-likely French presidential candidate.
Royal Dutch Shell has shut down the Nembe Creek Trunkline to repair theft-related damage, deferring some 60,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
412 British soldiers have died in Afghanistan since the war began in October 2001.
Climate change could affect national security by spurring conflict over resources and producing more natural disasters, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a prominent environmental group.
Over the next week, Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie will meet with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to deepen military-to-military ties between the two countries. It will be the first time in almost 9 years that a Chinese Defense Minister has made an official visit to the U.S.
The disgraced former IMF chief already faces charges of aggravated pimping in an organized gang for allegedly organizing orgies in France and the U.S.
The Obama administration will reportedly restrict hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by promulgating a set of rules governing such practices on federal land.
Voter turnout was very low, at about 32 percent ? partially due to rainy weather -- the worst such figure since 2000
U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, 52, has returned home to be with his family after being released from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where he was recovering from a stroke, according to a statement released on Thursday.
The brother and co-conspirator of the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 was released Thursday after serving over 16 years in prison.
Mitt Romney appeared Friday on Fox to discuss the April jobs report showing 115,000 jobs added, far lower than expected.
Seeking to reassure a Hispanic constituency that has grown disillusioned with some of his policies, President Obama reiterated his support for the DREAM Act during a Cinco de Mayo address, and blamed Republicans for obstructing immigration reform.
The two car bombs exploded outside a police station in Makhachkala, one at an ID checkpoint and another 20 minutes later when the area was swarming with rescue workers, troops and firefighters.
