The FBI is offering an up to $1 million reward for anyone with information that will lead to the safe return of missing retired FBI special agent Bob Levinson, five years after Levinson vanished from Kish Island in Iran.
The Colorado Supreme Court says the University of Colorado system can no longer ban firearms on its four campuses.
Before his death last week, conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart wrote a column criticizing President Barack Obama as a radical, which was published posthumously on his newly relaunched website.
Russia's ruble-denominated Micex index dropped 3.9 percent, while the dollar-denominated RTS fell more than 4.3 percent a day after Monday's Putin bounce lifted both to record highs.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration believes there are 4 billion barrels of proven reserves of oil within U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico and more than 12,000 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
All four remaining Republican primary candidates--Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Next Gingrich--are viewed more unfavorably than favorably by a substantial portion of Americans going into Super Tuesday, at a time when President Obama's approval rating is on the rise. The newest poll, by the Washington Post/ABC News, is another obstacle for the four GOP presidential hopefuls to overcome as they try to prove their electability and appeal.
Super Tuesday is upon us, with 10 states and 419 delegates at stake. Check in throughout the night as the International Business Times' politics team provides updates, insights and analysis from across the race.
A German clothing brand popular with neo-Nazis opened a store called Brevik -- which is shockingly close to the name of the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik -- in the city of Chemnitz, sending residents and politicians into a fury.
President Barack Obama Tuesday held his first news conference of 2012, touching on a variety of topics including Iran's nuclear ambitions, gas prices, immigration reform and Rush Limbaugh's remarks on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke.
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum all made speeches to members of the American Israel Political Action Committee today, tearing into President Obama for his AIPAC speech on Monday. It was Santorum's speech, however, which accused the president of appeasement and called Iran the most radical regime in the world, that made the most waves.
Six suspected leaders of the international hacking organization known as Anonymous were charged by U.S. authorities of computer crimes, dealing a major blow to the loose-knit group that has wreaked havoc on the websites of government agencies and major corporations.
Prince Harry began a four-day visit to Jamaica on Monday as part of a Diamond Jubilee tour honoring Queen Elizabeth II. The young prince's visit comes at an awkward time, however -- Jamaica's newly elected prime minister has said the island nation should be its own republic, without ties to the crown.
As rescue teams frantically dug for survivors the death toll is expected to rise.
Trump pointed out that launching a war on Iraq temporarily boosted the popularity of Obama’s predecessor in the White House, George W. Bush.
Law enforcement officials in Europe and the U.S. acted in unison this morning to arrest five hacktivist members of Anonymous offshoot Lulzsec, acting on information leaked by the group's leader, Hector Xavier Mensegu, who went by the codename Sabu and had been working with the federal government for months, according to FoxNews.
The rule, which still must be passed by parliament, will give employers the flexibility of paying compensation in place of an off-day.
On Monday afternoon, Arizona Republican John McCain became the first U.S. Senator to call for air strikes against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. A senior Obama administration official said that the president and his advisers “share his concern and outrage about what’s taking place.
Despite a slowing growth rate in 2011, Brazil's economy overtook the United Kingdom to become the sixth biggest in the world.
The late conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart was known for taking on what he identified as liberal bias in the media, government, the entertainment industry and anti-war activism. Before his death last week, he had been working on a monolithic portal for his various web outlets, something he referred to as Breitbart 2.0.
One of the worst affected areas was the New South Wales town of Wagga Wagga, where 8,000 people were ordered to abandon their homes amid warnings flood waters were expected to breach an 11-meter levee, Reuters reported.
No arrests have been made in connection with the death, nor has a motive been unearthed.
Switzerland has a message for Americans looking for tax shelter: Go home. The Swiss Parliament's lower house voted to amend a tax treaty with the U.S. Monday to make American taxpayers with Swiss accounts easier to identify.
Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus as well as New Jersey’s first African-American representative, died Tuesday of colon cancer.
The report claimed the government set up a private company to keep the Swedish government at arm's length from any dealings with the Saudi authorities and to get around export restrictions.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko quipped that it is better to be a dictator than gay – an apparent swipe at Germany’s openly homosexual foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle.
Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all scheduled to give speeches at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) via satellite on Super Tuesday. Before the three candidates took time out of Super Tuesday to appear, however, all three gave heated attacks on the president, dismissing his own AIPAC speech on Monday and calling for harsher action when it came to dealing with Iran.
Turkish Airlines landed the first commercial flight to Mogadishu in more than 20 years on Tuesday. The airline will make regular twice-weekly flights to the previously war-torn city from Istanbul's Ataturk airport.
Longtime U.S. Rep. Donald Payne died Tuesday after a brief battle with colon cancer. He was 77. The longtime New Jersey Congressman was the first African American elected to the House from New Jersey and was its only black Congressman prior to his death.
Passengers described hellish scenes at Paris' Gare Du Nord with some stuck on trains or waiting in stations for over nine hours.
BP officials announced Tuesday the company has been given approval to explore for oil off the coast of Brazil's equatorial waters.
