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With his 3-year-old daughter hospitalized over the weekend, Rick Santorum cited family concerns for ending his presidential campaign.

With the price of natural gas at its lowest point in two years, natural gas-producing companies are trying to raise enough capital to keep afloat, and the second-largest among them is no exception.

Desperate to salvage the ceasefire agreement, Annan said peace was still a possibility and urged both sides to stop the violence.

Three days after being sworn into office, Malawi's first female president Joyce Banda is hard at work trying to bring the African country back to a place of economic stability.

The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed on Tuesday new regulations to hold mortgage servicers accountable, requiring them to provide more information and give struggling homeowners more options.

Rick Santorum called Mitt Romney to tell him he is suspending his campaign to be president of the United States earlier today.

The former Republican presidential candidate and pizza CEO is trying to remain relevant in the political arena with a series of shocking ads attacking President Obama's handling of the economy. The next one is supposed to be released this afternoon.

The Republican candidate made the announcement during a campaign event on Tuesday afternoon.

The Chinese Communist Party has suspended Politburo member Bo Xilai, while his wife Gu Kailai has been named a prime suspect in the death of British businessman Neil Heywood.

Herman Cain said it was wrong for conservative columnist John Derbyshire to stereotype the black community, in an article that got him fired from the National Review and further propelled the public debate on race in the wake of Trayvon Martin's killing.

China's Communist Party suspended former high-flying politician Bo Xilai from its top ranks and named his wife, Gu Kailai, as a suspect in the murder of a British businessman, explosive revelations on Tuesday likely to rattle leadership succession plans.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has yet to return from a trip to Singapore, and rumors that he is hospitalized and in critical condition are quickly intensifying.

The president, seeking to bolster his message of economic fairness, is advocating a plan that would raise income taxes on Americans earning more than $1 million to a minimum of 30 percent.

A court suspended the country's two-week-old constitution-drafting body Tuesday after complaints that the process to select members was too exclusive.

Is CISPA the new SOPA? This article decodes the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the scariest threat to Internet freedom and privacy currently before the U.S. Congress.

Three separate blasts in western Herat province and Musa Qala killed 10 policemen and eight civilians, as militants step up their activities at the start of spring fighting season.

Republicans have accused President Barack Obama of using the so-called Buffet Rule to score political points at the expense of sound policy.

Malaysian government took a significant move towards reinforcing the human rights and political reforms in the country, by introducing a legislation that would end indefinite detainments without trial.The Security Offenses (Special Measures) Bill will repeal and replace the Internal Security Act of 1960, which gave the government power to arrest anyone suspected as national security threat and detain him without trial for an indefinite period.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in China on a historic trip to discuss improving ties between the two countries.

North Korea stated Tuesday that preparations for the Unha-3 rocket, which would carry its first satellite into space, had been completed and that it was now assembled and ready for launch. The White House said it was a ballistic missile in disguise.

The United States is hoping that new sanctions targeting Iran's central bank and its oil industry will pressure the Islamic Republic to stop enriching uranium, but Iran is defiant, claiming that it can withstand any oil embargo for two or three years.

For some time now, Mitt Romney has been trying to dispel the feeling that he is a corporate robot. He still has a long way to go.

The 48-hour strike comes in spite of pleas from business leaders and politicians not to disrupt Greece's vital tourism sector, an industry that employs 1 in 5 workers.

Pakistan's foreign minister might lose her portfolio for contradicting Pakistani President Yusuf Raza Gilani's remarks on US-Pak ties. The speculation was sparked by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's statement at an interaction with the journalists in Lahore, in which he said that fresh team would carry forward diplomatic talks with India, to discuss bilateral issues including Kashmir.

Rick Santorum is returning to the campaign trail after a brief hiatus to care for his daughter Bella, who was hospitalized with pneumonia.

Despite reports of fighting in at least two towns, President Bashar al-Assad's government claimed military forces had begun pulling out of some areas in compliance with the ceasefire agreement to withdraw forces from towns and villages by Tuesday.

Iran has enough funds to withstand a total embargo on its oil sales for two to three years, Iranian media quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying days before the resumption of talks with world powers on Tehran's nuclear program.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other men had been fighting extradition, saying they would face inhumane conditions in the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colo.

China reported Tuesday an unexpected $5.35 billion trade surplus in March, following a vast deficit in February and in the midst of a continued exports weakness caused by economic crises in overseas markets.