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On Thursday, Herman Cain became just the 12th presidential candidate in history to receive Secret Service protection during his campaign.

Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has banned certain words from text messages.

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi also gave Monti tacit support.

The FDA announced on Friday it has revoked approval of the cancer drug Avastin for breast cancer patients, citing multiple studies that concluded it does not prolong the life of women suffering from metastatic breast cancer.

A bipartisan bill to combat online piracy is running into bipartisan opposition over the broad language in the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.

Because Occupy Wall Street isn't using donated money and supplies to maintain its occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York anymore, members are uncertain about what will happen to a fund containing a substantial sum of money and a warehouse stocked with food and clothing.

Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested on Friday for electoral fraud, which carries a life sentence, at a Manila hospital, preventing her departure from the country to seek medical treatment.

Survey reveals an alarming number of Americans are not retirement-ready and many have no college savings for their children.

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Benin on Friday, starting a three day visit to the West African country.

The U.S. House and Senate voted to increase the threshold of mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Adminstration (FHA) to $729,750, a move that would give more homeowners access to lower interest rates.

The Rhode Island legislature passed a pension overhaul bill that will raise the retirement age for most public workers, suspend cost-of-living adjustments and combine guaranteed pensions with 401(k)-style accounts. Proponents say the overhaul is necessary to save the state's foundering pension system, but public workers' unions cried foul.

Papademos’ government also promised that it will not have to enact any further austerity cuts.

The new austerity measures are expected to be opposed by the country’s powerful trade unions.

More than 46000 deportations of the undocumented immigrant parents of U.S.-citizen children were carried out between January and June of 2011, according to an unreleased data obtained by Colorlines.com's publisher, the Applied Research Center.

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says it was a standard practice for departing staffers in the Massachusetts governor's office to buy their state-issued hard drives and wipe e-mails from the office server. But officials from three previous gubernatorial administrations say that wasn't standard at all.

Monti has also already vowed to crack down on tax evasion and reform the country’s pension plans in an effort to ease Italy’s massive debt

Congress on Thursday found a rare moment of accord in the budget fights that have paralyzed Washington this year as lawmakers voted to extend government funding through December.

Authorities are still searching for clue to get hold of the one-year-old Lisa Irwin who went missing from her crib six weeks ago.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park Tuesday has forced the movement to re-evaluate its strategies. IBTimes spoke to Fordham University Sociology Professor Heather Gautney about how the movement has successfully regrouped and where it's headed.

Occupy Wall Street had spent the better part of its two-month existence an ideological Rorschach test. Amoeba-like, it would mold to whatever circumstances dictated, easily adoptable and welcoming to multiple causes. Protesters felt that changed on Thursday night.

More than 50,000 Egyptian protesters flocked to Cairo's Tahrir square Friday to pressure the military government to transfer power to elected civilian rule, after the Cabinet tried to enshrine the army's role in a constitutional proposal.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he will send Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Myanmar, a nation that was plagued by one of the longest running civil wars and a repressive military regime, until recently.

European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi told euro zone governments Friday to act fast to get their rescue fund up and running, expressing exasperation at their lack of progress in response to an escalating debt crisis.

The search for missing Missouri baby Lisa Irwin has been going on for more than month now and as the Kansas City police is doing its best to investigate into the matter, members of the public seem to be hosting their own search teams using online media. The one-year-old baby girl, as reported to the police by her parents, went missing from her crib while she was safely asleep in her home on Oct 4. An extensive search has been carried out by investigators, but no substantial information has surfa...

Angelina Jolie has been doing a humanitarian work for Cambodia for a decade and the Southeast Asian country granted her citizenship in 2005. However, a recent report says that Jolie accidentally purchased land from an official who was charged of crimes against humanity.

The European Central Bank could soon bow to pressure to print money to prevent a further escalation of the euro zone's debt crisis, with respondents in a Reuters poll giving an even probability the ECB would adopt a policy of quantitative easing.

United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appeared to call China and India threats on Thursday, in comments that the Pentagon quickly sought to correct.

Occupy Wall Street protesters marked the completion of two months of their movement Thursday with a national Day of Action. But the future of the nationwide movement already looks doubtful, with the number of demonstrators declining and their eviction from Zuccotti Park.

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, a 20-year-old Egyptian feminist and political activist who uploaded her naked photographs on Internet as an expression of personal freedom, is creating a furor online.