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At his Phoenix press conference Tuesday, an increasingly embattled 2012 Republican presidential nomination candidate Herman Cain categorically denied all accusations of sexual harassment against him, even as a fifth woman detailed another alleged incident of inappropriate behavior by him.

Moments after the International Atomic Energy Agency issued its report on Iran's nuclear weapons program, Iran went on the defensive, calling the finding a hoax devised by the United States.

Tax increases? Not really. But tax reform has reportedly been brought to the table during the ongoing discussions within the budget deficit super committee.

Silvio Berlusconi is expected to quit within a week, if not days.

With little more than an hour left in the second full day of the federal corruption trial of New York City Councilman Larry Seabrook Tuesday afternoon, a jury had only just been seated, signifying the divisive and wide-reaching scope of the crimes the Bronx legislator is accused of committing.

In addition to proclaiming that Massachusetts U.S. Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren is a socialist, Paul also said public schooling is a socialist thing.

Tuesday's elections will decide the positions of the city's next mayor, district attorney and sheriff and give citizens the opportunity to vote on several ballot initiatives. Polls opened at 7 A.M. and will close at 8 P.M. this evening; voters can look up their polling places here.

For the first time, a transsexual woman and an openly gay man were sworn into the Polish parliament on Tuesday, as Anna Grodzka and Robert Biedron took their elected seats in Warsaw.

An appellate court in Washington, D.C., became the fourth to issue a ruling on the Affordable Care Act.

I believe that we are now close to an agreement with [the opposition party] New Democracy, Papandreou said during a Cabinet meeting

Berlusconi has been under extreme pressure from both allies and opponents to quit

Iran has conclusively worked on nuclear weapons, as well as tested weapons' parts, in the past and could still be doing it, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report.

On the day Sharon Bialek told her story with attorney Gloria Allred, Donella told The Washington Examiner that Cain tried to get dinner alone with an audience member at 2002 speech, then tried to set up a date with Donella herself. As Cain prepares for a press conference to counter Bialek's story, bloggers and news sites debated whether Cain's behavior is damning or inconsequential.

Junior South African miner Village Main Reef has expressed interest in buying DRDGold's interest in its troubled Blyvoor mine for 150 million rand, the two companies said on Tuesday.

Nairobi Securities Exchange has launched two stock indexes in conjunction with FTSE Group, and said on Tuesday it planned to start one for Treasury bonds next year.

The governor of Nebraska says he has no problem with TransCanada building an oil pipeline through his state -- he just wants it on the other side of the state, not over the Ogallala aquifer.

South African stocks inched to their highest close in seven sessions on Tuesday, rising 0.5 percent as banks and retailers rose on hopes a budget vote in Italy could help move the euro zone closer to resolution of its debt crisis.

Standard Bank Group said on Tuesday it hopes its non-disclosed investment in solar lamp projects in the Asia-Pacific region will generate millions of U.N.-backed emissions offset credits for its carbon portfolio.

One must ask if a committee that was once deemed too clandestine has now become a political device open to bullying by Congressional leadership, and if the American people will be the ultimate losers in this increasingly sad show?

A Tunisian court ruled on Tuesday that the man who served as prime minister under Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi should be extradited to Libya.

As the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency prepares to unveil its report on Iran's nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the Islamic republican did not need a nuclear mob to confront the United States.

Suspected Somali gunmen attacked a police station and a government vehicle in northern Kenya late on Monday, the latest in a series of assaults on Kenya since it sent troops to fight Somalia's Islamist rebels.

Nigeria's police said on Tuesday they had arrested suspected members of an Islamist sect behind coordinated attacks in the north of the country that killed at least 65 people late last week.

Gunmen have killed an international peacekeeper in Sudan's war-stricken Darfur region and wounded two others, the region's African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force said on Tuesday.

Many Liberians failed to vote in a presidential run-off on Tuesday, poll observers said, some people staying away for fear of further violence and others following an opposition boycott appeal.

Large-scale irrigation pumping is stressing water supplies. Millions of acres to go dry in 25 years and water levels in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas have dropped by more than 150 feet in areas.

College students in the Northeast and the Midwest graduated with the most debt in the nation in 2010, according to a report released this week by The Project on Student Debt. The top spot went to New Hampshire.

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a billionaire who had considered running as an independent presidential candidate, called on Democrats and Republicans in Washington to create a deficit reduction plan that includes tax increases, spending cuts, and entitlement reform.

Long Island voters in Nassau and Suffolk counties are choosing new local officials Tuesday as both counties continue to battle a sour economy and Nassau is trying to avoid bankruptcy.