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September home sales showed mixed trends, but year-over-year foreclosures starts were down, suggesting some market recovery, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Treasury's October Housing Scorecard.

More loyalists are jumping from Berlusconi’s sinking ship and many have resigned, ahead of a key parliamentary vote.

Discover the United States of Awesome Possibilities with America's first-ever unified campaign to lure in international tourists from Brand USA.

Voters in a handful of states will weigh-in on a slew of ballot measures that are the most exciting part of a sleepy Election Day this year.

Venizelos, a long-time rival of Papandreou, is believed to covet the job of Prime Minister.

Israeli defense Web sites shut down on Sunday, but the government claims that hacker collective Anonymous had nothing to do with the system failure.

A recent poll shows Mississippians are divided in their support of Initiative 26, a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion by defining a fertilized human egg as a human being.

English people scarf down more fruits and vegetable and consume less amounts of fat and salt.

Nigeria's national security adviser on Monday dismissed a warning from the United States of an Islamist bomb threat to luxury hotels in the capital as not news, and said it was spreading unnecessary panic.

Fighters who toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi in Libya's uprising will keep their weapons for now to aid in security, an Islamist commander said.

Liberia could tip into chaos not seen since its civil war if a presidential run-off election set for Tuesday is not delayed and reorganized, presidential hopeful Winston Tubman said on Sunday.

Clashes and sporadic gunfire rocked part of Monrovia on Monday, killing at least one person after Liberian riot police fired tear gas to disperse several hundred supporters of presidential challenger Winston Tubman.

Sporadic gunfire rocked the centre of Monrovia on Monday after Liberian riot police fired tear gas to disperse several hundred supporters of presidential challenger Winston Tubman, and at least one person was killed, a Reuters witness said.

One of the women who alleges that Herman Cain sexually harassed her in the 1990s will hold a press conference Monday afternoon with powerhouse lawyer Gloria Allred to describe the incidents in detail.

Five Occupiers were arrested in a downtown Atlanta park early Monday morning. Atlanta police claimed that the individuals, who they took into custody, refused to leave Woodruff Park, the encampment area of Occupy Atlanta, after a strict curfew was issued. Over the weekend 20 people were also arrested, including one individual who was charged with a felony.

“Tui seeks to avoid the possibility of any adverse effect from the currency or macroeconomic situation and plan accordingly.”

Carlos the Jackal has already been convicted of three murders and is currently serving a life sentence in France, but the Venezuelan, who was once one of the most wanted figures of the Cold War, is again on trial.

The roughly dozen activists are protesting the construction of one of the largest coal-powered power plant in that country.

Russell Pearce, the Senate President of Arizona and author of controversial anti-illegal immigration bill SB 1070, is facing a recall election Tuesday.

Rush Limbaugh said Friday global warming is a hoax -- an attempt by ideological liberals to codify liberalism as science.

Sarkozy wants to slash the country’s public deficit to 4.5 percent of GDP next year from 5.7 percent this year.

A coalition of Nebraska residents wants TransCanada to change the route of its planned pipeline, which will carry oil from Alberta to refineries in Texas, so that it does not cross the Ogallala aquifer.

The data suggests that the market does not believe Italy can repay its huge debt.

Greek political leaders were set to choose who will lead a new coalition on Monday and push through a bailout before the country runs out of money in mid-December, with local media tipping former ECB deputy head Lucas Papademos for the job.

With Israeli President, Shimon Peres, trying to show U.N. nations the threat Israel faces from Iran and urging them to build pressure on Iran to disclose its nuclear programs, Iran seems to be inching towards becoming the next target of the U.S. and UK coalition forces.

Fixing all the nation's structurally deficient bridges bears a $70.9 billion price tag, according to FHWA estimates. But in a political and economic era where consensus and money are in short order, the odds of a wholesale fix are slim to none. Lawmakers have until the current spending program runs out in March to find a fiscal solution.

Is sentiment in Washington shifting from one of modest deficit reduction to large deficit reduction, including a revenue increase? It may very well be, if the views of two key lawmakers are any indication.

In his second run for Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney's campaign team has been witnessing a favorable trend among the female voters in the recent independent polls, which clearly wasn't the case in the 2008 campaign.

Overcoming a constitutional limit on re-election, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega appears to be headed for a mandate to remain in office.