Asma al-Assad, the 38-year-old wife of Syrian regime leader Bashir al-Assad and a former investment banker, will likely join 114 other Syrians on a list of sanctioned individuals by the European Union, freezing her assets to preventing shopping, travel and other commerce in foreign countries; meanwhile, reports emerge of Assad's emails to friends where she boasts of the power of the Syrian regime, and that she is the real dictator.
Despite his insurmountable lead in delegates, a loss on Tuesday could be a major symbolic setback for the front-runner's campaign. As one political consultant put it: If Santorum wins, the question will arise: How can Romney beat Obama?
In an attempt to counter the bad press the GOP has recently received regarding its stance on women's issues, the Republican National Committee released a new video criticizing President Barack Obama and his allies for perpetrating a war on women.
The judges were among 47 people arrested under operation Bad Metal, which included the seizure of buildings, cars and property.
Movie star George Clooney and a group of other activists and politicians were arrested on Friday outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington in a protest against the Khartoum government and to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
South Carolina's new immigration law exempts domestic and farm workers from otherwise mandatory background checks, a provision that opponents say undercuts the law's stated purpose.
Rush Limbaugh, recently in hot water over his Sandra Fluke slut comment in the birth control debate, says the media and President Obama should be more outraged over Cee-Lo Green's singing the dirty version of F--- You at an Obama fundraiser than they are at Limbaugh's controversy.
The conclusion is that the equity market is cheap relative to earnings. Hence, the market is priced to absorb a potential softening in earnings rather than being priced to perfection.
Amnesty International has charged NATO with failing to investigate the deaths of scores of Libyan civilians who did not directly participate in hostilities during the Libyan uprising last year.
Lawmakers proposing bills that benefit their businesses; lobbyists wining and dining public officials; decisions that happen behind closed doors, far from the disinfecting light of public scrutiny. These are some common examples of unscrupulous politics that appear in a comprehensive new study of ethics in state government.
French police officials are now confirming that the same weapon and same scooter were used in all three attacks.
The European Commission is widening its regulatory sweep to include "shadow" banking, heralding new controls over the sprawling and largely unchartered 46 trillion euro ($61 trillion) sector blamed for helping trigger the financial crisis.
India, now the world's largest arms importer, accounted for 10 percent of all weapons imported during the period, according to the Stockholm International Peace Institute.
Early bids at an auction to decide the payout due to Greek bondholders who are insured against default showed investors fear for the country's financial future even after a debt restructuring and aid packages.
Israel believes that Iran is building up its national defenses and could quickly become capable of thwarting a military strike.
On Monday, Al Jazeera announced that it had gained access to hundreds of pages of confidential documents prepared for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Russia’s entreaty to its ally comes amidst reports of very heavy fighting in Damascus.
Despite being under house arrest in England, Wikileaks announced they had found a way for Assange to run, Wikileaks announced via its Twitter page Saturday.
Germany has elected former civil rights activist and pastor as its president.
Two days after New York police officers arrested dozens of protesters while breaking up an Occupy Wall Street rally, city council members joined Occupy members in Zuccotti Park to condemn the NYPD's heavy handed tactics.
Opponents say the bill, up for consideration in the state House of Representatives on Wednesday, could make it possible for women who undergo abortions to be unintentially identified if their detailed demographic information is open to the public.
Speaking in Beijing Sunday, the IMF chief stopped short of saying the changes had eased the Fund's concern China was deliberately undervaluing its currency, a source of tension between the rising giant and Western policy makers.
A gunman passing by on a scooter fired indiscriminately at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, France on Monday.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Monday called for public comment on plans to extend oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
Israeli President Shimon Peres sent his annual greeting to Iran for Persian New Year, saying that he hopes for peace and coexistence between the two countries.
Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in Lower Manhattan's financial district in New York City late Saturday night during clashes with police on the movement's six-month anniversary.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was in the middle of his speech at a rally in Arlington Heights in Illinois on Friday when two men began kissing front and center during a crowd protest before being ejected. The video of the protest and the men kissing has gone viral around the Internet.
Maoists told Indian TV that the Italians were seized after they took objectionable photographs of tribal peoples in the interior regions of Orissa.
Senussi, who has been on the run since the dictator's overthrow last year, is likely to become the subject of a three-way tug-of -war between Tripoli, France and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague who also want to put him on trial in Europe.
Fundraising by the Democratic National Committee and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign dwarfs that of his Republican rivals, but he continues to struggle to bring in the same amount of big donations as GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.
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