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A week after 24 children and 4 teachers were killed in a bus crash, thousands gather at a service in Belgium to mourn the victims.

As a candidate who has been criticized for abandoning some of his previously moderate political stances, it wasn't a good idea for Romney's communications director to say Romney will shake up his platform like an Etch A Sketch during the general election.

The family of Jason Russell, founder of the Kony 2012 viral video, has released a statement regarding Russel's health. A video emerged on TMZ last week of Russel naked and ranting in the streets.

A federal judge handling a case against alleged unsafe conditions on an oil rig owned by BP (NYSE: BP) has ordered confidential documents be kept to a minimum.

In a sign that conservatives are coalescing behind Mitt Romney, the prominent Tea Party group FreedomWorks has dropped its opposition to the former Massachusetts governor.

Syrian army tanks and artillery shelled two Damascus suburbs on Wednesday after rebels allegedly attacked forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

The footage, which was aired live, sparked angry and humorous exchanges on Twitter in India.

According to Libya's Vice Premier, Mustafa Abushagur, and a government spokesman, Mauritanian has agreed to hand over Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya.

After six months held hostage by Somali pirates, British women has been released and prepares for her return home.

The Republican presidential candidates are facing dwindling cash reserves as the protracted nominating fight takes its toll, according to Federal Election Commission reports for February.

The 24-year-old French citizen of Algerian heritage had been under police surveillance since the March 11 killing of a soldier in Toulouse. Two other French service members were killed, followed by three children and a rabbi outside a Jewish school Monday.

Chevron officials announced Wednesday the company's most recent oil spill off the coast of Brazil is not linked to a previous oil leak in November.

Actor Robert De Niro has apologized for a racial joke he made at a New York fund-raising event on Monday, saying he didn't mean to offend anyone.

The British economy looks set to avoid a renewed recession and the recovery will pick up speed next year, finance minister George Osborne said in his budget statement on Wednesday.

By destabilizing Iraq, the militant organization is seeking to derail Baghdad’s contention that Iraq is moving towards “normalcy” after almost a decade of war.

Somali pirates freed the U.K. woman they held hostage for more than six months on Wednesday. Somali gunmen had killed British publishing executive David Tebbutt and abducted his wife Judith Tebbutt in a raid at a luxury beach resort in neighboring Kenya last September.

Police surrounded the apartment building of 24-year-old Mohammed Merah, a French national and self-confessed al Qaeda member, after an early-morning raid went awry.

Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with knowledge of emerging market efforts to find candidates said on Tuesday.

The French president’s 2010 campaign seems reminiscent of the British election in 1979, when Conservative Margaret Thatcher fought to become the UK’s first Prime Minister.

Developing economies are going to nominate two candidates to become the next president of World Bank, according to a Reuters report.

All of Israel mourned as three little children and a Rabbi killed in the Toulouse shooting were laid to rest in Givat Shaul, Israel. The funeral ceremony that began 10 a.m. local time at Givat Shaul's Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem was telecast live by the state television.

An umbrella organization composed of extremist militant outfits including Al-Qaeda has claimed the responsibility for the latest series of violence that killed 46 people in eight cities of Iraq.

Bahraini government is pushing the prosecution of the 20 medics who treated injured protestors during the last year's uprising, despite King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa claiming that real reforms were rolled out in the wake of international criticism of the nation's handling of protestors.

The U.S. and America would jointly deploy Aegis-equipped destroyers and land-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor missiles in Japan's southern islands ahead of North Korea's planned rocket launch in April, NHK television reported Japanese defense officials as saying.

Iran recently resumed financial aid to the Hamas, which was suspended six months ago, to block a unity deal with the rival Palestinian faction Fatah that was supposed to end the five-year rift between the two political parties, a Fatah spokesperson has said.

Business confidence in China has climbed up this quarter, although demand has continued to slow according to Capital Economics.

The latest liquidity operations by European Central Bank (ECB) appear to have averted, at least for the time being, a threatening catastrophe in the euro-zone banking sector. But it would be wrong to think that they have solved the region’s deeper fiscal and economic problems, or secured the future of the single currency itself according to Capital Economics.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has comfortable win over Rick Santorum in Illinois.

Mitt Romney won Illinois' Republican presidential primary and dramatically increased his chances to become his party's 2012 nominee, largely due to the support of moderate conservatives and voters who thought he was the candidate with the best chance to beat President Barack Obama in November.