Notice of the termination of a natural-gas purchase agreement between companies in Israel (the buyers) and companies in Egypt (the sellers) was confirmed Sunday by those on both sides of the contentious issue.
Two senior House Republicans expressed confidence in the head of the U.S. Secret Service Sunday despite the Colombia prostitution scandal while a Senate committee chairman planned hearings into the matter.
Argentine oil group YPF has cut computer links with parent Repsol, two sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.
Socialist candidate Francois Hollande won on Sunday the first round of the French presidential election, with 28.4 percent of the vote versus 25.5 percent for the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Early election returns from France released Sunday showed President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Francois Hollande nearly tied and advancing to the May 6 runoff.
Syrian soldiers stormed a town east of Damascus on Sunday and rebels bombed a military convoy in the north of the country as international mediator Kofi Annan urged both sides to work with an expanded team of U.N. ceasefire monitors.
The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday.
Veteran U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah will face a Republican primary fight after delegates to a party convention on Saturday denied him the nomination, forcing him into an election with a Tea Party-backed challenger who finished second.
A shortage of domestic coal has postponed the construction of new power plants in the energy-starved country.
Investigations are on to the death of hundreds of Dolphins that have washed up on the northern coast of Peru. Around 877 carcasses of Dolphins and porpoises were found in the Peruvian beaches in two and half months and the Peruvian officials and environmentalists are trying to unravel the mystery behind the phenomenon.
China and Russia began their first joint naval exercise Sunday in the Yellow Sea off China's east coast, China's official news agency Xinhua reported. The six-day joint naval drills are being conducted amid the Chinese standoff with its neighbors over territorial disputes.
French voters head to the polling booths Sunday to vote in the first round of the presidential election amid ongoing eurozone crisis and rising levels of unemployment. Nine other candidates, including Socialist Francois Hollande, vie against incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy in the presidential race.
The cause of death has been revealed for Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and entrepreneur who died on March 1 at the age of 43.
It's been confirmed that three more Secret Service employees resigned on Friday amid a prostitution scandal in Colombia. This raises the total number of employees to leave the U.S. Secret Service due to the recent misconduct to six.
India -which criticized the sanctions by the U.S., United Nations and European Union - recently became Iran's top oil buyer.
China produces 97 percent of the world's rare earths, minerals that are critical for the production of everything from cell phones to missiles -- and now it wants to keep more of them for itself. The world is worried, but there may be little it can do.
Francois Hollande is France's Socialist candidate for the 2012 French presidential campaign.
A top military publication in China has warned that the US may be risking an armed confrontation by undertaking a joint military exercise with the Philippines amid maritime tensions between Manila and Beijing over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
Loan demand from firms and households jumped in the first quarter, adding to the evidence that the Japanese economy is on the path of recovery, according to Senior Loan Officer Survey.
Australia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK have agreed to contribute a combined $41 billion to the International Monetary Fund reserve to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis.
Ron Paul's goal of reforming America's domestic and foreign policies while investigating the Federal Reserve may be a long way from happening in real life, but a new online video game set to come out for free in several months will offer Libertarians everywhere to give the Fed what it deserves in a game called Ron Paul: Road To Revolution.
Mitt Romney, the newly minted presumptive GOP presidential nominee, sought to rally Republican Party officials around his campaign Friday with a speech tearing into President Barack Obama and his economic record.
The EPA's final verdict is that private water sources in the town of Dimock, to the northeast of the state, do not show levels of contaminants that warrant further concern.
China and Russia are making military history this weekend with the first bilateral naval exercises the two governments have ever conducted together.
Experts giving their depositions to a New Zealand court this week believe that Natasha Harris's habit of drinking over two gallons of Coke every day likely contributed to her death. Harris apparently drank between eight and 10 liters (2.1-2.6 gallons) each day, which likely contributed to her hypokalemia (low potassium).
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered his condolences to his Pakistani counterpart, Syed Yusuf Raza Gillani, following Friday's deadly plane crash.
Newly elected members of Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition party may boycott the parliament to which they just won entry.
Balancing the ticket with a Hispanic running mate would do little to alter Romney's weak standing among Latinos, according to a new Public Policy Polling analysis.
Ex-president Amadou Toumani Toure arrived in Senegal Thursday night as the release of his associates eased political tensions
On Friday, Cairo's Tahrir Square looked much the same as it did 15 months ago as tens of thousands of protestors gathered to call for the country's rulers to step down.
