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Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for meat, after congress lifted the five-year-old ban on horse slaughter this week.

Egypt will hear the results of elections which Islamist parties look set to win Friday, and protesters have called a rally to remember 42 people killed in clashes with police last month.

Republican lawmakers blasted the chairman of the U.S. futures regulator on Thursday for his agency's role in the collapse of MF Global and called his recusal from the investigation a way to "avoid the heat."

Last year, Sri Lanka suffered an unprecedented shortage of coconuts, a long-time staple for the tropical island nation.

Brazil's National Petroleum Agency ordered Chevron Corp to shut down one of its production wells after the country audited the safety of the U.S. company's operations in its offshore Frade field.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley hit five banks with a lawsuit over foreclosure practices in the midst of multistate settlement negotiations.

Three prominent United States senators wrote a letter to numerous drug makers Thursday, inquiring about Pfizer Inc.'s deals with insurers and pharmacy benefit managers that might limit the market for the selling of generic versions of the company's Lipitor cholesterol drug.

Makers of apple and grape juice targeted in a Consumer Reports investigation into juice arsenic levels pushed back against the report Thursday, saying their juices are safe for the plethora of American children who drink it each day.

Insider trading by members of Congress is a clear problem, but fixing it may prove difficult.

The American Family Association has compiled a naughty or nice list of national corporations based on how often they use the word Christmas in holiday advertising.

From the time when a statement by Massachusetts' attorney-general announcing a lawsuit against five major banks began appearing on the newswires, shares of the financial institutions being sued actually went up slightly.

The Humane Society has a firm position against horse slaughter. The organization argues that plants in the U.S. are not a better alternative to foreign-owned plants across the border, in Canada and Mexico where slaughter has been primarily conducted with many exported U.S. horses in the five years since a ban was effectively imposed before recently being lifted.

Carrier IQ is under fire for logging and transmitting extremely sensitive data from user's phones without their knowledge. Sen. Al Franken stepped in and wrote a public letter to Carrier IQ's chief.

Rick Perry has released three TV ads in Iowa in the past 24 hours in an attempt to re-establish himself in the state that will hold the nation's first caucuses on Jan. 3.

The original Manhattan is surging back to life ten years after the terror attacks of 9/11, and trends are showing the square-mile tip of the island south of Chambers Street is quickly surpassing its past glory.

Boko Haram, Nigeria's militant Islamic insurgency, is now an emerging threat to the United States, a new congressional report says.

Bush is scheduled to tour through Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, where he is planning to raise awareness about AIDS, cervical and breast cancers.

The Internal Revenue Service is holding onto $153 million worth of tax refund checks that failed to be delivered to taxpayers. In all, 99,123 taxpayers who should receive refund checks this year did not get them due to mailing address errors.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)'s mortgage insurance fund is threatened by declining home prices and could require a taxpayer bailout, Congress members said at a hearing on Thursday, echoing an earlier report.

BBC said it received about 4,700 complains about Clarkson, who is believed to earn about £1 million ($1.57-million) annually.

Herman Cain, who said on Tuesday that he was reassessing whether to stay in the presidential race before saying on Wednesday that there was no chance he would drop out, is now changing course again and saying he may decide to drop out after all -- but not until he talks to his wife.

United States International Trade Commission commissioners will vote Friday on weather or not the U.S. solar industry is harmed by the alleged dumping of Chinese solar components. What happens Friday could either break or propel the case forward.

It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women in Afghanistan are languishing in jails over so-called ‘moral crimes.’

AT&T exec Jim Cicconi said the Federal Communications Commission's report on the $39 billion T-Mobile merger proposal is obviously one-sided and cherry picks facts.

This trip represented the highest official U.S. visit to Burma in more than fifty years.

In what will be the third day of a four-day probation hearing, BP will take the stage Thursday to contest U.S. prosecutors' accusations that BP violated a three-year probation sentence in Alaska.

Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey are planning to conduct a series of tests that could once and for all put to bed the debate surrounding alleged ground water contamination as a result of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas drilling.

Michele Bachmann had yet another oops moment on Nov. 30 when she argued that she would remove the U.S. embassy from Iran if she were president. The problem? America hasn't had an embassy in Iran since 1980. Here, watch the GOP presidential hopeful's top ten gaffes, from her confusion about Libya to the founding fathers.

Suit targets nation's largest lenders