Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gave her first television interview last night, detailing some of her recovery and giving the nation a peak into how her world has changed since she was shot in the head last January.
Makana, a Hawaiian singer, performed to support the Occupy Movement at a dinner in Honolulu, which was hosted by President Barack Obama for Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Summit participants from 21 economies around the Asia-Pacific, including Obama family, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Hours after being evicted from New York's Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, Occupy Wall Street protesters were setting up in a new location pledging amid religious prayers to continue the movement with a new occupation.
Dadaab, which is located near the Somali border, is now the world’s largest refugee settlement camp.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta quantified a super committee failure in real numbers on Monday: ground forces shrunk to 1940-levels; a naval fleet rivaling 1915's; and the smallest Air Force in history.
Local governments in China had lent an astounding 10.7 trillion Yuan by of year-end 2010 – or about 27 percent of GDP for that year.
A New York State Supreme Court judge granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the city from evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park and preventing them from using tents.
Mexican soldiers found 140 migrants inside a truck in the state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border.
Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's obsession with virgin bodyguards is known to the whole world, but the recent revelation by one of Gadhafi's close associates is something more than just obsession.
20 percent of women in Cameroon have been raped at one point in their lives, while another 14 percent said they had escaped a rape attempt.
The International Business Times has the exclusive account of the harrowing night of police brutality and destruction that befell Occupy Wall Street protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, as seen through the eyes of New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn.
Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, was released from a Norfolk, England prison after four months for an LSD-fueled violence charge.
Pakistan took further steps toward normal trade and travel ties with India on Tuesday, agreeing to open more commerce with its larger neighbor by February.
Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday rejected a move to downgrade the abuse-of-power offence under which former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been jailed, dealing a blow to prospects of an early release for the charismatic opposition leader.
At least 69 people were killed in southern Syria on Monday, most of them in clashes between army deserters and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said on Tuesday.
With dozens more reportedly killed during protests in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad is quickly losing allies in the region.
Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti raced to assemble a new government for Italy on Tuesday while a sharp rise in French borrowing costs raised fears that the two-year debt crisis may spread to the euro zone's second biggest economy.
Monti said he would “act with urgency” to resolve Italy’s deep financial crisis.
Nebraska and TransCanada Corp agreed on Monday to find a new route for the stalled Keystone XL pipeline that would steer clear of environmentally sensitive lands in the state.
A senior Quebec politician, fed up with decades of arguments over whether the province should separate from Canada, launched his own party on Monday, with polls showing he would easily win an election now.
A new detail has emerged in the case of missing baby Lisa Irwin. A man has come forward and told investigators that he knows who received a call from the cellphone of Lisa's mother Deborah Bradley the night baby went missing.
Occupy Wall Street protesters sought to regroup Tuesday morning after the police forcefully evicted them from their encampment in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in the middle of the night.
The entire affair paints a poignant picture of the idea of freedom of religion in Iran, where Zoroastrians are vulnerable to pressures of conversion, official retaliation and discriminatory practices in employment and education.
There are a number of polls being conducted by a number of major news organizations to try and predict the winner of the Grand Old Party (GOP) presidential race. However, a new study suggests that a candidate's prospects in the polls could be estimated by the size of his Twitter following.
Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti raced to assemble a new government for Italy Tuesday while a sharp rise in French borrowing costs raised fears that the two-year debt crisis may spread to the euro zone's second-biggest economy.
What to know about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on the Affordable Care Act.
Encouraged by the recent developments in Libya, three U.S. senators have called attention to the remains of 13 American soldiers buried in Tripoli more than 200 years ago. A proposal has been passed to the Defense Department to bring home the sailors.
Hundreds of New York police officers swarmed Zuccotti Park at Broadway and Pine in the early hours of Tuesday morning, evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters and razing the encampment they had built there over two months.
Google Earth has apparently spotted large and unidentified structures in China's Gobi Desert. The satellite images have raised questions over what China could be building in the region, which shares borders with Mongolia and is used for military, space and nuclear programs.
In a poll conducted by the Asia Foundation in Afghanistan, 35 percent of Afghans believe their country is moving in the wrong direction, which is the highest level of dissatisfaction found since polling began in 2004.
