President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao will pitch differing trade agendas on Saturday as an antidote to weak global growth, as they try to sidestep the European debt crisis looming over an Asia-Pacific summit.
Good public speakers and future presidents, especially, are not prone to mental misfires. Right? Wrong. Such notions are misguided. And try as some late night talk show hosts might, the truth is Gov. Rick Perry's brain is no different from anyone else's when it comes to its ability to inconveniently forget. Oops.
Tar Sands Action, an environmental organization responsible for organizing the massive Keystone XL pipeline protests, said the Obama administration's decision to delay approval for the project is a major success for the green movement.
To most Republicans in Congress, it is a given that any deficit-reduction deal would have to include cuts to entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. According to a newly released survey, however, Republican voters in four key early-voting states disagree.
Pakistan removed restrictions on the import of 12 goods from India as part of measures to normalise trade between the nuclear-armed rivals.
A Wall Street Journal survey of 52 economists has put the odds at 1-in-4 that the U.S. will experience a recession in the next 12 months. When the Journal put the question to the same group in September the odds were at 1-in-3.
A satellite monitoring group has reported that Sudan's military is upgrading its air bases in its Blue Nile state. This could be an indication of possible air strikes in the region along the country's border with South Sudan.
The Chinese government has issued a new order that bans the use of unverified information from Web sites and blogs in news pages and in the electronic media.
The ratings agency Standard & Poor's said Friday that its erroneous downgrade of France arose when an automatic email was sent out after an old Web page on French banks was changed. France reacted with outrage and has ordered an investigation into this shocking error.
California-based distributors of medical marijuana have been ordered to shut down operations by Saturday. The move is part of a federal crackdown after weeks of conflict between prosecutors and distributors.
Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has released a steamy new ad encouraging people to go to the polls for the Dec. 4 parliamentary election.
Mexico's Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora, who was the country’s top security official in charge of the fight against drug cartels, was killed in a helicopter crash Friday.
Major League Baseball player Wilson Ramos was found alive Friday by Venezuelan security forces in the mountains near where he was kidnapped, Reuters reported.
With Europe mired in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the U.S. economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs for re-election.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain continues to make light of the sexual harassment allegations brought against him.
Photos of Veterans Day, Armistice Day, and Remembrance Day around the world.
On Friday, there are plans for a huge rally at Occupy Wall Street called Night of a Thousand Masks. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. when Occupiers will don their Guy Fawkes Masks to demonstrate and protest.
A sugarcane farm in the Philippines has been in James Ford's family for generations. It was the family business on his mother's side, and with the farm recently changing hands from one aunt to another, there was an opening for Ford to come and manage it.
Facebook revealed privacy principles in a memo to the FTC sent in Feb. 2011.
After the announced drawdown of troops from the Middle East, the Eurozone crisis, and a G-20 summit that lacked spectacular developments, the Obama administration is hoping enhanced economic ties with the Pacific Rim will open a fruitful venue for enduring growth.
William’s tour next year will roughly coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Britain’s defeat of Argentina in the brief Falklands war.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” Thursday to poke fun at his gaffe at Wednesday’s GOP Presidential Debate when he claimed there are three government agencies he would eliminate as President – but then couldn’t name a third.
The Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees around a third of U.S. mortgages, faces dwindling cash reserves and could require a taxpayer bailout, according to a forthcoming study by Joseph Gyourko, a professor at the Wharton School.
Facebook is finalizing a settlement with federal regulators over changes to its privacy policies enacted two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The ferry, named Kartepe, was reportedly carrying more than 20 passengers and six crew members.
NASA is preparing to launch its largest and most advanced Mars rover at the end of the month. It will spend nearly two years examining areas of the Red Planet.
In a couple of weeks, the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin a new round of stress tests on America's largest banking organizations, a top Federal Reserve official said Friday.
Two new polls reveal Cain's slip in support since POLITICO and Bialek is driven by women voters, once the majority of those who supported him. A new video showing the GOP presidential hopeful making fun of Anita Hill (video enclosed) is sure to widen that gender gap, as prominent conservatives condemn Cain's reaction to the sexual harassment charges.
Ron Paul supporters scheduled a new money bomb Friday to coincide with Veterans Day. It's officially called the Support Them Now/Veteran's Day Moneybomb, according to the Web site Death and Taxes.
Heads of government attending Asian summits hoping to fathom China's foreign policy mood swings might spare a thought for Beijing's own leaders, who fear their expanding influence is attracting a new circle of potential foes not fans.
