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Pundits who argued that GOP presidential nominee candidate Herman Cain was merely the Republican party's flavor of the month in the race to unseat Democratic incumbent Barack Obama may have been right.

Scott Olsen, a former U.S. Marine who completed two tours in Iraq, is in critical condition on Thursday, after being hit in the face by a police projectile during an Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night. Will his injuries galvanize the Occupy movement?

Tens of thousands of people have fled the capital of Thailand, Bangkok, by truck, boats, and trains, as floodwaters descend upon the metropolis of 12 million people, with severe flooding expected over the weekend.

Fears of a double-dip recession in the U.S. receded temporarily Thursday after Washington said consumers bought more appliances and businesses spent more on construction this past summer.

The secretary of state and former first lady would beat Mitt Romney by 17 percentage points and Rick Perry by 26 percentage points, compared to leads of 3 and 12 percentage points for President Obama, according to a new Time Magazine poll.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the House Judiciary Committee that instead of enforcing the Alabama immigration Law, her department has been working with the Justice Department to challenge it.

The Athens Stock Exchange surged as much as 6 percent in Thursday trading.

After two decades in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Olver, D-Mass., announced he will retire at the end of his term.

The standings in Iowa are surprising, with Mitt Romney and Herman Cain leading by a large margin with very little effort on the ground. But who will win the all-important caucuses?

Egypt released suspected Israeli spy Ilan Grapel on Thursday, as part of a prisoner exchange between the two counties.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday said he was encouraged by the deal agreed by euro zone leaders, calling Europe's economic crisis the most immediate and imminent threat to global recovery.

European leaders roundly hailed all the agreements.

The Occupy Oakland protests are part of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York over a month ago.

Parties reached a deal late into the evening during marathon negotiations.

A day after an Iraq War veteran was critically injured during a clash with police, hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters held a march in the area late on Wednesday night. The march started after a peaceful demonstration at the Frank Ogawa Plaza.

Mississippi is considering a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban all abortions, in the most direct state challenge yet to the Roe v. Wade precedent.

Moammar Gadhafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam wants an aircraft to take him out of Libya's southern desert so that he can turn himself into The Hague war crimes court.

The name Herman Cain meant a disarmingly easy tax plan, some quick witticisms and a typical American success saga. Now that could be changing even as the Republican nomination race is changing gears. How about a pro-liquor Cain who lobbied hard for the tobacco industry and was so anti-worker that he lobbied against a hike in the minimum wage? Recent events have led to a really troubling twist in the tale, for the surprise package in the Republican bundle of White House seekers.

A U.S. drone strike Thursday killed five commanders of a powerful Pakistani Taliban faction that attacks Western forces in Afghanistan, one of the group's leaders told Reuters.

As the global population is about to cross seven billion, experts are warning that skewed gender ratio could be a major concern.

Bad social media judgments are hardly forgotten. It is especially so if you happen to be the Gov. of Alaska who tried to pull off an aggressive rhetorical campaign against Democratic representatives during last year's national midterm elections.

World stocks and the euro rose to their highest levels in nearly two months on Thursday after European leaders struck a deal to resolve a two-year-old sovereign debt crisis, which threatens the survival of the single currency.

Footage aired by the Dubai-based Al Alaan news channel claims to show the funeral of Libyan dictactor Moammar Gadhafi, his son Mutassim and his national security advisor, Abu Bakr Yunis. According to a Misrata Military Council official, Gadhafi's personal cleric, Sheikh Kahled Tantoush, is shown reciting an Islamic funeral prayer, with relatives of Gadhafi and other officials in attendance.

According to a report by the United Nations, global population will reach seven billion, within the next five days.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who once vowed to die fighting on Libyan soil, now wants to face international justice instead and avoid any chance of meeting the same grisly end as his father, Libyan officials said.

Infosys Ltd, India's No.2 software services exporter, is looking for acquisitions worth up to $700 million, Infosys' Executive Co-Chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan said on Thursday.

Comedian and television actor Orlando Jones was panned by his Twitter followers and by the Internet community for posting rather insensitive tweets about former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.

President Obama, on Wednesday, announced a series of new measures aimed at easing the burden of debt on students struggling to repay their federal college loans.

Alfredo Astiz, Argentina's infamous Blond Angel of Death, and 11 other death squad members from the 1970s were jailed for life on Wednesday