Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Holland faced a crisis, and asked opposition parties to support the ?16 to ?18 billion cuts needed to satisfy the EU, and financial markets, next week.
Ted Nugent made a deal with federal prosecutors on charges he illegally killed a bear in Alaska for his reality show and will now have to pay a $10,000 fine and make a public service announcement about responsible hunting that will appear on the show.
Over the past three decades, South Korea has catapulted itself from Third World-caliber poverty to becoming a technologically superior economic powerhouse.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that he will step down as the leader of United Russia, the nation's dominant political party, after he assumes the presidency in May.
Newt Gingrich's daughter said the former speaker will reassess his presidential ambitions if he loses the one state he has placed his hopes on.
Ahmed Shafiq has been disqualified from Egypt's upcoming president elections because of his former position in the Hosni Mubarak regime.
Sen. Chuck Schumer said if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Arizona immigration law known as S.B. 1070, he will introduce a bill to let Congress block it.
However, Ottawa will keep in place a ban on any arms trade with Myanmar.
In an article titled ?Calling All Carnivores,? the New York Times Magazine issued a challenge to its readers in early April, asking them to make a case for why it?s ethical to eat meat, illustrating yet again the liberal bias of the mainstream media.
Syrian soldiers and security forces are harassing and even killing people who were seen talking to UN truce mediators in the country.
The first criminal charges stemming from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster have led to the arrest of a former BP engineer for obstruction of justice.
The fuel sector probe -- which will be discussed in a live televised parliamentary session -- uncovered a litany of abuses, including allegations that fifteen oil importers collected more than $300 million without delivering a single drop of oil.
The Philippines wants to develop a natural gas field in a disputed area of the South China Sea that is also claimed by China.
A high-profile protest by Chinese villagers against the alleged corruption of local officials has produced a result: Two former village officials from Wukan, near Hong Kong, have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and ordered to return stolen funds.
Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that the prostitutes patronized by the Secret Service in Colombia may have been Russian spies.
With a potentially landmark Supreme Court decision on Arizona's tough new immigration law looming, Senate Democrats called a hearing to denounce the law as unconstitutional and discriminatory.
In a report, the human rights group said the oil company reported vastly inferior figures to what really happened in a 2008 oil spill in the Nigerian Delta.
Ron Paul has won a majority of Iowa and Minnesota delegates long after their primaries ended, providing a boost to a campaign many political observers have tried to declare over.
Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven year prison sentence on an abuse of office conviction, went on a hunger strike to protest the “concentration camp of violence and lawlessness” created in her country by current president President Viktor Yanukovych.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the legalization of 3 West Bank outposts, angering Palestinians seeking to put an end to Israeli settlements.
China is still friendly with North Korea, despite the latter being roundly condemned by the international community. History plays a role, but Beijing is getting something out of it too - just how much, though, remains to be seen.
The International Criminal Court may investigate possible war crimes -- including rape and the conscription of child soldiers -- in Mali committed since political violence erupted there in January.
The unnamed source said the North had almost completed preparations for the nuclear test, which if it went ahead would draw strong international condemnation and further isolate the impoverished state from its sole major ally, China.
Turkey claims that Armenians who perished were simply the victims of war.
Deion Sanders estranged wife, Pilar Sanders, was arrested on Monday night on charges of domestic violence against her husband, CNN reported. This news followed a series of tweets from Sander's verified Twitter account posted Monday evening suggesting that he would be pressing charges against his wife.
Until the second round of French elections, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande and incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy will be battling it out for the 17.9 percent of the French public who voted for Marine Le Pen won in the first round.
Speaker of the House John Boehner said there is a significant possibility Republicans could lose control of the House in 2012, a surprisingly stark assessment of the party's position two years after it swept into power.
Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister, was moved back to her cell after a short stint in the hospital. She refused treatment from doctors for an undisclosed medical issue.
While the controversy has brought Rielle Hunter in to the spotlight, for better or worse, Edwards' mistress is known for more than just conceiving a love child with the Democratic presidential candidate. Here are 10 things to know about Rielle Hunter.
In a newspaper interview published on Tuesday, al-Marzouki urged Assad's Russian, Chinese and Iranian allies to abandon support for the beleaguered dictator and hand over to his deputy.
