Less than a week ahead of the presidential election, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a website over articles which claimed that the slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi donated around $65 million to his 2007 presidential campaign.
South Korea's inflation declined to a 21-month low as the exports declined for the second consecutive month in April.
India?s trade deficit rose to $13.9 billion in March compared with $3.8 billion a year ago driven by high crude oil import costs according to data reported by the Ministry of Commerce Tuesday.
Malaysia has set the minimum wage for the private sector, covering all economic sectors except domestic services, saying it would benefit more than three million low-income workers.
China?s manufacturing activity improved in April for the fifth straight month as economic conditions continued to strengthen, according to readings from a key gauge released Tuesday.
Ron Paul vowed to stay in the 2012 presidential election until 'all the votes are counted, but dodged a question from Bloomberg News about whether or not he would endorse Republican front-runner Mitt Romney.
Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed to India's upper house of parliament, making him the latest addition to the lineage of athletes who became politicians.
Media mogul Arianna Huffington called an Obama 2012 campaign ad with former President Bill Clinton despicable for questioning whether or not GOP rival Mitt Romney would have made the same call President Obama did to capture and kill Osama bin Laden.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte is next in line to potentially fill the position of Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate.The Senator from New Hampshire, who endorsed Romney months before the primary there, joined GOP hopeful at a campaign event that was taking place in New Hampshire, the Granite state.
The one constant that we can rely on is the willingness of the Federal Reserve to act promptly if the data were to become unambiguously negative
The vessel reportedly capsized and broke apart into two segments.
Lebanese intelligence officers are questioning crew members of a ship that set sail from Libya and was found to be carrying a cache of weapons that supposedly were intended to supply opposition forces in Syria.
In a joint press conference with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan, President Obama called America's alliance with Japan a bulwark of regional stability and said China must couple economic growth with human rights reforms.
Almost 40 people were killed and hundreds wounded by unknown shooting assailants in a tragedy that officially remains a mystery.
China pushes ahead with efforts to create a regional and global alternative to GPS.
The move would nullify planned sanctions banning EU-based ship insurers and re-insurers -- who cover 90 percent of the world's tankers -- from covering vessels carrying Iranian crude, the head of China's shipowners' association.
Swedish retailer Ikea rejected claims in a new documentary that claims it used East German political prisoners in its factories in the 1970s and 1980s.
Two of bin Laden?s ex-wives are Saudi, while another is a national of Yemen
Ron Paul's 2012 delegate strategy made new gains in Massachusetts and Alaska in recent days, further demonstrating the tactic's ability to have an impact on the Republican presidential primary race.
Yemeni government soldiers and local militiamen killed eight al Qaeda militants near Lawdar.
Campaigning for President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton said the Obama administration was beating the clock on the U.S. economic recovery, and he rebuked Mitt Romney for pushing Bush-era policies on steroids.
The U.S. Secret Service tightened its rules of conduct for agents last week in response to the scandal.
The May Day 2012 General Strike protests are poised to sweep the world's streets on May 1, when men, women and children are being asked to skip work, school, shopping and other activities in order to participate in the action on behalf of the 99 percent.
After initiating a hunger-strike in early February, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja along with 20 other jailed opposition activists will have his case re-tried.
Jimmy Kimmel had the ballroom at Washington Hilton roaring with laughter at the White House Correspondents dinner, but the comedian had tough competition from another major speaker.
His kidnappers and killers have threatened to release a video they took of Dale?s decapitation.
As U.S. and Chinese leaders are set to meet in Beijing on May 3-4, a year of troubles and differences will be prominent in their minds.
The U.N. chief is in Burma on a three-day visit, where he will address parliament in the capital Naypyitaw on Monday -- the first foreign leader to do so -- before meeting with opposition leader and one-time political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi.
As the Obama administration uses the approaching one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death to tout the president's decision to launch a strike on the former Al Qaeda leader, Republicans have accused the administration of unnecessarily politicizing the issue.
House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of diminishing the presidency by picking fake fights during his re-election bid. But even in the political fake fight realm, who is winning?
