Assad forces violently suppress protesters in the Syrian city of Homs and elsewhere.
As people continue to migrate away from rural areas and into cities, cities that are growing to devour the land around it, the numbers of people living in slums, shanty towns and informal settlements are skyrocketing.
If you want to know the truth, follow the money. Or so says conventional wisdom. The 2012 Republican presidential-nomination race is shaping up to be a three-man contest between Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney. So who are they funded by?
After calling for elections to be held in Zimbabwe next year, the country's long-time ruler, President Robert Mugabe, expressed confidence Thursday that his party can win because voters support his party's progressive economic ideas.
Donald Trump may have to cancel his much-maligned GOP debate now that Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are the only ones attending -- but he wants you to know it's not his fault.
Only 20 percent of Americans told Gallup that Congressional incumbents deserve to be re-elected, the lowest percentage in the organization's 19-year history of asking that question.
Wal-Mart began an internal investigation within the last seven months to determine whether some overseas incidents violated U.S. federal law.
The Canadian Wheat Board and its supporters said on Friday they may seek an injunction to stop the federal government's move to end the board's monopoly on sales of Western Canadian wheat and barley.
The Pa. Liquor Control Board pulled a public awareness ad Wednesday following complaints from rape victims that the ad blames women. The ad campaign is meant to warn young adults about the dangers of heavy drinking and the link to date rape. Instead, critics saw the ad as an attack on women and an accusation that rape is the victim's faults.
Boeing and the machinists union came to a deal that ended a lawsuit against the aerospace giant from the National Labor Relations Board.
According to reports, a man arrested for assisting the trio, Ralf Wohlleben, is a former official with NPD.
On Dec. 9, 1947, members of the Dutch armed forces murdered at least 431 men in the village of Rawagede.
With orders for turbine parts falling, the Energy Information Administration's forecast shows a 100 percent drop in wind energy growth if tax credit expires by 2012.
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student who is facing hate-crime charges after allegedly filming his roommate's sexual encounter with another man and streaming it online, rejected a plea deal on Friday that would have spared him jail time.
At one point, the cowboy-boot wearing huckster from the Lone Star State was the darling of the GOP's right, before shoddy debate performances and a goofy stump speech in New Hampshire sent his poll numbers plummeting. Now Perry has adopted a hyper-Christian posture in a last ditch effort at garnering support from Iowa's Evangelical base of Republican voters.
South Sudan became the world’s newest republic this past July, following decades of civil war that killed some 1.5 million people, after seceding from Sudan.
Arizona and the Obama administration are at odds with each other about whether the U.S. Supreme Court should settle the row over the state's anti-immigration law.
Occupy Demonstrators chanted You walk on our rights, now walk on us while encouraging business and political leaders to tread over demonstrators lying underneath a red carpet labeled 99 Percent.
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. The failure of psychics, like Almaguer, to accurately provide information to police calls into question why they repeatedly turn up in the cases of missing people reports. If psychics tend to be unreliable, why do people continue to listen, trust and follow them?
Italian police believe that the letter bomb sent to a top tax official in Rome on Friday was the work of a far-left anarchist group.
Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki has said he is open to negotiating a role for American troops that would likely include helping to train Iraqi security forces. Whether or not that happens, there will still be a massive diplomatic presence and a small army of contractors to defend them.
Kabila, who has been in power since 2001, will serve another five years as president.
The family of a retired FBI agent named Robert Levinson who has been missing since 2007 and thought to have been kidnapped in Iran has released a hostage video of an alive, but not well, Levinson begging for help.
House Republicans have proposed a bill extending the payroll tax cut that includes a provision to push through the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and reform several social safety net programs, openly defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama.
After four decades, there seems to be less interest in remembering one of the most tragic events in Northern Ireland’s recent history.
For the first time ever in 2012, Ron Paul is squarely third in national polls.
A violent fire in a private hospital in Kolkata, India (formerly known as Calcutta) left 84 people dead on Friday.
It seems that the former IMF Chief made a habit of attending group sex parties and orgies; something he himself admitted to, although he added that he never realized any woman in the party was paid for the sex.
European stocks were up around mid-day on Friday in a roller coaster session, with a key index bouncing between major technical levels following an agreement by European leaders for tighter Eurozone budget rules.
Southeast Asian stock markets fell on Friday on growing doubts that European leaders will be able to forge a credible scheme to contain the euro zone's debt crisis at a summit in Brussels.
