Egyptians frustrated with military rule battled police in the streets again on Tuesday as the generals scrambled to cope with the cabinet's proffered resignation after bloodshed that has jolted plans for Egypt's first free election in decades.
Thirteen news organizations in New York City formally complained Monday to Mayor Mike's administration. What is this, they asked, more or less, some totalitarion foreign land that represses free speech?
On Saturday, the legal team representing the family of kidnapped infant Lisa Irwin retracted statements suggesting that an unnamed teenager said neighborhood handyman, John Jersey Tanko bragged about a $300 payday for kidnapping the baby.
Ron Paul has surged in two recent polls of Iowa Republicans, challenging the front-runners and making it clear that he will be a contender in January's caucuses.
Egyptian activists called for a huge turnout in protests Tuesday to put an end to rule by the military which also saw its authority challenged by the resignation of the civilian Cabinet, casting uncertainty on elections due next week.
An 8-year-old girl becomes the third victim of North Carolina woman involved in a bitter love triangle who shot five kids in the head Sunday in Guilford County.
Boeing warned Monday that Pentagon cuts forced by the failure of the congressional super committee may lead it to review the future of its military plane plant in Wichita, Kan.
The Egyptian military and police have allegedly been using tear gas that could cause acute damage to the lungs, liver, and heart, and increase the risk of miscarriage. Apart from its detrimental side effects, the gas canisters were at least five years past the expiry date.
Amidst allegations that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys, a Senate committee plans to hear whether stronger laws are needed to protect children from abuse and neglect.
The California Supreme Court declined to give local governments carte blanche to hike health premiums for retired workers, saying on Monday that retirees could have a right to such benefits in some circumstances.
The narrator of a new unlisted YouTube video describes the beautiful world that Occupy Wall Street is helping to turn people on to, setting his philosophical treatise to artistically-shot clips of the OWS movement and its supporters.
Congress rejected a request by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration to establish a Web Site devoted to information about climate change, a reshuffling that did not require additional funding.
The fact that Mitt Romney is a Mormon is well known at this point. His faith has been discussed, criticized and defended. Which is why it actually is somewhat shocking to learn a fact that, if said about any candidate other than Romney, would probably elicit a quizzical look and a duh. That fact? Romney has tried alcohol. And smoked a cigarette.
The members of the super committee officially announced a failure to reach a deal on cutting at least a $1.2 trillion hole in the federal budget deficit, ahead of its official Nov. 23 deadline. The move has sent lawmakers searching for a new plan and ways to dodge blame.
With Steven J. Baum closing, foreclosure business is expected to diffuse among smaller, local firms in New York State, real estate lawyers told IBTimes.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo predicts New York state will lose about $5 billion in federal funding now that the U.S. Congress's deficit-reduction super committee has failed to reach a compromise, as its co-chairs announced Monday evening.
Her fame was extended by the fact that Morrissey, lead singer of the 1980s UK super-group The Smiths, was a great admirer of her work.
South Sudan's oil ministry said that foreign oil companies and potential buyers of its crude were on notice that no other nation or entity had been authorised to sell its oil.
Eritrea has complained to the U.N. Security Council about Kenyan allegations that it sent weapons to Islamist rebels in Somalia, calling for an independent investigation to judge the dispute.
Tunisia's Islamist-led ruling coalition will keep the country's ministers of defence and finance and the central bank governor in their posts when it announces a new government, a senior coalition source told Reuters on Monday.
More than a million people in Zimbabwe will require food aid between now and March 2012, a United Nations agency said on Monday, despite recent improvements in the country's grain production.
Nigerian politicians are funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa's most populous nation, the state security service (SSS) said on Monday.
Libya's prime minister-designate said on Monday he was ready to name a government to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections but gave no details of a line-up that may involve a delicate power balance in a fragile new state.
Cairo police fought protesters demanding an end to army rule for a third day on Monday and morgue officials said the death toll had risen to 33, with many victims shot in the worst violence since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
It was not recommended that charges be filed against the special prosecutor who was investigating the late Senator from Alaska Ted Stevens.
Rick Perry has become the third Republican presidential candidate, along with Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, to sign a marriage vow promoted by the Family Leader, a conservative Christian group in Iowa.
The killing occurred when Sadia decided to return home in order to patch things up with her family.
Partisan disagreement over the fate of the Bush-era tax cuts on the nation's top earners helped to undo the Congressional deficit reduction super committee, ensuring that debate about the cuts will figure heavily into the 2012 presidential contest.
Nísio Gomes, a tribal chief in Brazil, was murdered by masked gunmen on Friday.
It has been said that the U.S. lost its innocence on November 22, 1963. Forty eight years have passed since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on that horrific day in Dallas. And in some sense, the nation has never fully recovered.
