The North's provocative gesture comes as global leaders, including the presidents of the United States, China and Russia, prepare to meet next week in South Korea to discuss nuclear security issues.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation was founded as a haven for Jews whose lives were under threat, during his Thursday's meeting with families of the victims of the Jewish school shooting in the French city of Toulouse.
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday in favor of sending a bill to President Barack Obama which will ban insider trading by Congress members.
Syria fits the bill of a nation that has made most of its friends by virtue of having common enemies. There is probably no other way to explain how this fiercely secular Arab nation has been commanding tremendous support from the religious fanatics that routinely make Iranian governments.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a series of tough measures in the wake of a string of killings in southern France by an Islamist terrorist. However, the President's new proposal to jail frequent visitors of terror-linked Websites has raised concern among journalists and legal experts in the country.
The U.S. job market continued to improve with statistics from the labor department showing that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits declined to a four-year low last week.
The manufacturing division activity in China shrank in March successively for the fifth month, as showed by the preliminary HSBC survey. Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), the indicator of China's industrial activity, fell from 49.6 in February to 48.1, raising a lingering concern about an imminent hard landing.
The GDP of Ireland for Q4 declined 0.2 percent, according to data released by the Central Statistics Office on Thursday, which meant that the country has officially returned to recession.
A noticeable progress is seen in the export figures of Japan for February with global economy showing indications of recovery.
Tuareg rebels in northern Mali, flush with arms and fighters from the Libyan revolution, pushed south Friday morning to occupy positions vacated by government forces as mutinous soldiers in the capital sought to complete a coup by arresting the president, military sources said.
The Senate Thursday voted overwhelmingly to send President Barack Obama legislation imposing new curbs on insider trading by members of Congress, even though the measure was weaker than a version it passed in February.
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, in a shooting rampage in Kandahar province last week, will be charged with 17 counts of murder, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The makers of the Etch A Sketch may want to thank an aide to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney who mentioned the toy in a well-publicized gaffe that led to the stock skyrocketing 141 percent. Shares of The Ohio Art Company, which makes the children's toy, increased $5.65 a share to $9.64 per share - a 141.25 percent gain.
Ron Paul has the fewest votes of any of the current Republican presidential primary candidates, but his campaign and super PAC, or political action committee, spending levels are on par with most of his GOP rivals.
Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco has chartered 11 oil tankers, doubling its fleet, to better control the price of oil. The tankers are en route to the U.S. in a bid to lower oil and gas prices.
The Chinese government is moving quickly to censor Internet rumors of an internal coup in Beijing following the high-profile dismissal of top Communist Party leader Bo Xilai last week.
John Edwards is denying reports that he was a client of 'Millionaire Madam' Anna Gristina.Edwards is the latest politician, either former or current, to be embroiled in a prostitution scandal.
From Ron Paul's major' endorsement by South Carolina Sen. Tom Davis to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's unexpected reversal from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum, here are the remaining GOP candidate's most significant endorsements so far, and how the candidates' supporters, and their reasons for backing the candidates, help illustrate each campaign's central message.
The strike, called by the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), also resulted in some schools being closed and hospitals working with reduced staff
Marine Corps sergeant Gary Stein faces a possible discharge after starting a Facebook page openly condemning President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
On Wednesday, Russia and China (two erstwhile allies of Assad) endorsed a UN peace plan for Syria that was proposed by Kofi Annan,
Over the past 24 months, Cuba has been cracking down on internal dissent through the harassment and arrests of activists, journalist and bloggers, Amnesty International reported on Thursday.
A day after endorsing Mitt Romney, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a Pennsylvania newspaper Thursday that his state's new senator, Marco Rubio, should be the running mate.
In the majority of these cases, the killer was the girl’s father, husband or brother.
Standing in front of a row of pipes, President Barack Obama pledged on Thursday to accelerate approval for part of the Keystone XL pipeline, seeking to deflect criticism that his rejection of the full project helped create a climate for high gasoline prices.
The United States should keep a substantial number of troops in Afghanistan despite intensifying doubts about America's mission there, Marine Gen. John Allen told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
The French citizen of Algerian heritage had been on the U.S. watch list for two years before he began the rampage that led to his death Thursday. He is believed responsible for the shooting deaths of seven people, including schoolchildren, in Toulouse.
The reserve requirement for 379 branches of state-run Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., the country's third-biggest lender, will decline by two percentage points below that of other Chinese banks.
The central bank president told Germany's Bild Zeitung that the ECB will act swiftly to counteract any worsening of inflation. The situation is stabilizing, Draghi said of the euro zone crisis.
Much of the Algerian public remains burdened by poverty, high unemployment, poor public services and entrenched government corruption.
