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As U.S. troops prepare for departure from Iraq, President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met at the White House Monday for talks focusing on the future relationship between the two countries.

Manhattan's criminal courthouse will be occupied this week by more than 700 men and women who are charged with a committing a range of minor crimes while participating in the ubiquitous Occupy Wall Street protests.

After being accused of racism, the Patriot Freedom Alliance, a Kansas-based Tea Party group, has removed from its Web site an illustration that compared President Barack Obama to a skunk.

Jammeh has been in power in Gambia since engineering a bloodless coup as a 29-year-old in 1994,

Newt Gingrich is standing behind his comment that Palestine is a nation of invented people with no real right to their own state. His comments have inflamed Arab sentiments and may alienate some Jewish voters, but Gingrich insists his remarks are factually accurate and historically true. Watch his initial comments and response here.

Linden, who hailed from KwaZulu-Natal, reportedly asserted her innocence and claimed the drugs were planted in her suitcase.

I am confident the high court will uphold Arizona's constitutional authority and obligation to protect the safety and welfare of its citizens, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Monday.

European shares posted their biggest fall in three weeks on Monday, as investors worried the measures outlined at last week's EU summit to strengthen budget discipline would be of only limited value in resolving the Eurozone debt crisis.

After two weeks of bipartisan sniping between Senate Democrats and House Republicans, leaders in both parties are asserting a deal can be made over the payroll tax cut extension -- but their progress to-date has proven to be less than convincing.

Sarkozy maintained that Britain will remain an integral part of the EU

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to decide the fate of Texas' new redistricting map could delay state primary elections.

The 2012 election has witnessed a revival of Republican antipathy for the federal Department of Education, a longtime target of Republican calls to curtail government. What would happen if we did away with the federal Department of Education?

Sufficiently enraging Palestinian officials, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich maintained his assertion that Palestinians are an invented people with no definitive right to their own state.

The Justice Department had argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should allow to stand lower courts' decisions to place a preliminary injunction on four key provisions of Arizona's anti-immigration law.

With European Union leaders implementing measures to stabilize government finances at a Galacial pace, what represents the best asset class in the event of a government default by Italy?

This was the second time in less than four years that a South Korean coast guard official has been killed in such a clash over disputed fishing waters.

OPEC began negotiations on Monday on a new production deal aimed at healing the rift caused by a bad-tempered failure to agree an output target when it last met in June.

Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse has come under fire after the retail company pulled advertisements from TLC's reality show, All-American Muslim. The ads were pulled after the Florida Family Association claimed that TLC's 'All-American Muslim' is propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.

Local elections were held in Syria on Monday, but will a vote do anything to change the ongoing protests and unrest in the country?

Baby Lisa Irwin has been missing for two months, but the one-year-old's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, continue to maintain that their daughter was kidnapped on Oct. 4. The Irwin-Bradley family, however, is not the only one that has suffered from baby Lisa's disappearance. Another family has been targeted as kidnappers because they have a child that looks similar to baby Lisa.

By appointing Valdes, Humala may be seeking to impose a more authoritarian-style government in Peru.

As the Iowa caucuses draw closer, Mitt Romney's opponents are hammering him for making a $10,000 bet with Rick Perry at a Republican debate on Saturday: a move critics say highlighted Romney's disconnect with voters who are struggling to make ends meet.

The Google Doodle honors Robert Noyce who would have celebrated his 84th birthday Monday. During his lifetime, Noyce was nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, having co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He also co-created the microchip with Jack Kilby in the late 1950s.

Major Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Monday on the European Union's deal to pursue stricter budget rules, but investors remained cautious and concerned about whether Europe is taking sufficient steps to resolve its debt crisis.

Newt Gingrich, the Republican front runner for 2012 U.S. presidential election, is indeed emerging as a colorful personality. After initial campaign setbacks he faced due to his personal history, Gingrich surged to the top of the contenders’ list. But his emergence as a serious contender also raises interesting questions.

Facebook, the social networking site, is probably not the first place that comes to mind when contemplating new career opportunities.

The South Korean government Monday cut its economic growth forecast for 2012.

The Google Maps site new satellite image of an isolated airstrip in Nevada shows a secret and operational military bases with unmanned air vehicle test facility.

A South Korean coast guard was stabbed to death by a Chinese fisherman Monday in an operation to apprehend a Chinese vessel operating illegally near South Korean waters, a South Korean official said.