The testing raises speculation that Israel is planning to launch a military strike on Iran to thwart that country's nuclear program. Iran claims the program is solely for peaceful uses, but many governments believe Tehran may be seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
A study says Roberts Court justices are better educated than their predecessors, have spent more time in academia and serving on the federal appeals courts. But is that kind of experience necessarily a good thing?
Throughout his career, right-winged radio host Rush Limbaugh could counted on for controversial moments, the latest being calling Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke a “slut” for testifying to Congress that religious institutions should cover birth control.
The U.S. economic recovery could be dented by a renewed drop in housing prices in the short term and the country lacks a credible, comprehensive fiscal plan, posing a major medium-term economic risk, a top IMF official said.
Japan is facing a demographic nightmare that portends a doomsday scenario for its future.
In a newly discovered video from 2002, Romney brags about his connections.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy took refuge in Bar du Palais, a cafe in Bayonne, after Basque separatists and supporters of the Socialist party overwhelmed him in the streets.
The EU's decision was taken at a summit in Brussels late Thursday night, and launched the former pariah state on what will be a lengthy process towards full blown membership of the Union.
Animal-rights advocates are hardly pleased with the made-for-web video that Cain Connections, the former presidential candidate's post-campaign project, released Thursday. A suffocating goldfish, spilled out of it's fish bowl by a little girl, is a macabre metaphor of the U.S. economy after President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
Obama is concerned that a military strike on Iran by Israel might make Tehran more of a sympathetic figure to some countries
Rick Santorum's campaign has argued that Mitt Romney's narrow victory in the Michigan primary was not a win, but the people who award delegates think otherwise -- and Santorum is not happy about it.
Spain defied the European Union on Friday, setting a 2012 deficit target at 5.8 percent of gross domestic product, a far softer goal than the 4.4 percent agreed with Brussels.
About 48-million people are eligible to vote for 290 seats in the Tehran parliament, the Majlis.
Rebel fighters were finally driven out of the Baba-Amro district in Homs when forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad launched a final assault on the beleaguered city Thursday after a siege that had lasted 26 days. Meanwhile, Turkey's president said Russia and Iran will have little choice but to join diplomatic efforts toward Assad's ouster .
The U.S. and Israeli leaders will try to sort out their differences over what Washington fears could be an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites. With the U.S. presidential election just eight months away, Obama's Republican foes have been quick to paint him as tough on Israel and soft on Iran.
Barclays Plc has taken 8.2 billion euros ($10.9 billion) of the European Central Bank's (ECB) long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), which offers three-year loans to banks at a rate of 1 percent, in order to manage funding gaps in Spain and Portugal.
A Red Cross aid convoy prepared to enter the shattered Baba Amro district of the city of Homs, Syria, on Friday after a government official declared the area cleansed and the opposition spoke of a massacre by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Rebels withdrew Thursday in a key moment in the year-old uprising.
Two former U.S. senators, who led inquiries into the 9/11 attacks, have said that the government of Saudi Arabia, despite being an ally of U.S in the fighting terrorism, may have played a key role in the bombing of the twin towers a decade ago.
The U.S. Coast Guard Thursday recovered two more bodies of the crew members reported missing after a helicopter crashed off Alabama coast Tuesday night.
Bloc leaders on Friday signed a new pact to allow for faster transfer of capital to the EU's planned permanent €500 billion ($660 billion) bailout fund and to set strict rules on member states' debt.
Oil prices fell Friday following the confirmation from Saudi Arabia denying the pipeline explosion in the Kingdom.
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has often surprised his foes, but Friday's parliamentary poll may make him a lame duck for the rest of his presidency, a penalty for defying the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader.
The voting began in Iran's parliamentary elections Friday. The elections held at a crucial time as the country is facing international sanctions and war threat over its nuclear program.
Just days before what could be the most consequential meeting of U.S. and Israeli leaders in years, aides to President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are scrambling to bridge stark differences over what Washington fears could be an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
Defeated Syrian rebels abandoned their shattered stronghold in Homs, giving way to a 26-day army assault on a city that had become a symbol of the year-long revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced to take shelter in a bar to escape from several hundreds of angry protesters who booed him, as he campaigned in the Basque country in South West France. The riot police guarded the bar du Palais, in Bayonne, for more than an hour to protect Sarkozy from the protesters who threw eggs at the bar, shouting slogans against him.
Comments made by Saudi Arabia, that its promises of financial aid to Egypt have been held back by the latter, are at odds with earlier remarks from the Egyptian Prime Minister, which lambasted foreign donors for failing to honor their pledges, according to a report.
City Councilman Jumaane Williams and a number of other elected officials, advocates and citizens joined together in Downtown Manhattan to shed light on the injustices of NYPD's Stop And Frisk policy, according to NY1. The group further proposed new measures to reform the current policy.
City Comptroller John Liu is distancing himself from his campaign staff in response to a scandal involving his campaign treasurer, who was arrested on fraud charges, according to NY1. At a Black History Month event at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, Liu commented, All options are on the table. We're moving forward.
Two French journalists who were trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Homs were on Thursday evacuated to Lebanon, where the French government was preparing to fly them home.
