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Before Herman Cain suspended his presidential campaign, he told critics offended by his unscripted remarks to get a sense of humor. And on Tuesday, he showed that he can take a joke -- Stephen Colbert's -- even when he is its target.

Shares of Google, the No. 1 search engine, fell $4.53 to $624.13 in early Wednesday trading after the European Competition Commissioner said he might bring a complaint against it by March 31.

Canada still enjoys the confidence of its allies despite the arrest of a Canadian naval intelligence officer charged with handing over secrets to an unnamed country, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said on Tuesday.

As some of the world's biggest grain traders fan out across Canada's Prairies to compete openly for farmers' wheat and barley for the first time since World War II, they're finding more farmers like Paul Balicki than Stephen Vandervalk.

The cowardly act of the Costa Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, who has been accused of abandoning the sinking ship, leaving more than 4,200 passengers onboard, has added another unsavory chapter to the less reputable parts of maritime history. Fortunately, the seas have examples of bravery as well. If the above cases pointed to instances of cowardice and shame, there are incidents where the heroism of the captains onboard sinking ships has become legendary.

If Mitt Romney grabs the GOP presidential nod, he would be the first Republican candidate in decades to take hard line on immigration policies that Latinos support.

Pakistan has rejected U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman's request to visit the country, a senior official said on Wednesday, highlighting the increased tensions between the uneasy allies.

Texas EquuSearch (TES), the volunteer organization that helped in the search for a missing Caylee Anthony in 2008, is suing Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony. A hearing for the group was held on Tuesday, where TES asked for the reimbursement of $110,000 spent on two, multi-day searches, conducted in September and November of 2009. The group argued Anthony wasted their money and resources, since she knew where her daughter was.

Even those who were blissfully unaware of the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, were made sit up and take notice of the dire internet emergency, which, if and when passed, is most likely to frustrate the online lives of a vast majority of internet users.

The majority of Americans polled believe the governors of states ought not to have the right to pardon convicted killers, according to a Poll Position national scientific survey.

Rivals of Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney have attacked his tenure leading Bain Capital, portraying him as a vulture capitalist who indulged in buying out companies with little regard for the welfare of workers

Wikipedia's 24-hour blackout against US anti-piracy legislation has not been joined by all major players.

Martin Luther King III has announced his resignation from his post as president of The King Centre with immediate effect, in a statement published on Atlanta Business Chronicle website on Tuesday. The King center, founded in 1968 is a hub, that is devoted to the legacy of his father Dr. Martin Luther King, and is the largest repository of primary source material on him and American Civil Rights Movement in the world.

China will expand real-name registration for microblog users, the government's propaganda and information arm said on Wednesday, in its latest step to better control China's wildly popular Twitter-like websites.

Tensions between Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the military have risen over the Supreme Court investigation into a purported government memo seeking help to prevent a possible military coup.

The captain of the doomed Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, was put under house arrest for manslaughter as the death toll hit 11 with some 20 people still missing.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, under increasing pressure to release his tax returns now, continued to resist that timetable on Tuesday and said he probably would not make them public until April.

Rick Perry took a big bite out of Bret Baier's bait during Monday's South Carolina debate when he claimed that Turkey was run by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.

SOPA is not dead. All reports of the Stop Online Piracy Act's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Rick Santorum thinks he has a solid shot at winning the Iowa caucuses. The former Pennsylvania Senator expressed hope the official vote tally in the Hawkeye State, set for release by the end of the week, will show him overcoming an 8-vote loss to Mitt Romney to be dubbed the eventual winner.

The Iranian morality police are cracking down on a decades-old Barbie doll ban, claiming the classic American toy is threatening Islamic values.

David Kotz, the inspector general at the Securities and Exchange Commission who has a reputation as a tough watchdog, is leaving the agency at the end of January, the SEC said on Tuesday.

Veteran dissident has been indicted by Chinese authorities on charges of attempting to subvert the state for writing a poem urging people to gather to defend their freedoms, his lawyer said Tuesday, the latest in a string of indictments or trials of popular dissidents this year.

The murder trial of Dink brings to end a five-year odyssey that brought back terrible memories of Turkey’s troubled relations with its minorities, particularly Armenians.

David Seaman says he is back with Business Insider (and has picked up a new gig writing for Suicide Girls) after a day-long dismissal that brought the ire of hundreds of fans of his writings on NDAA, SOPA and other controversial issues.

The House Minority Leaders claimed even his own party doesn't believe Mitt Romney can win in November 2012, which is why support for him has been so half-hearted. But Pelosi had even less regard for his fellow candidates, who she called third tier representatives that show the Party's disconnect from what Pelosi asserts are the true carriers of the American Dream: the Democrats.

All told, 600 people are believed to have been executed in Iran last year.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday his bill rivaling the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act pending in the U.S. Congress now has more co-sponsors than SOPA.

The SOPA blackout list has grown to include some of the world's biggest web companies, including even Google, which will not go dark (what would we do?) but announced today that it will include a link on its homepage tomorrow explaining its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act.