A split between the International Monetary Fund and the European Union is threatening to delay Greece's next aid payment in another blow to European efforts to stem the debt crisis.
The Turkish military has launched a series of brutal counter-attacks in northern Iraq, killing some 20 Kurdish rebels, after members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed 29 soldiers and five civilians along the Kurdish-Turkish border. President Obama has condemned the PKK's attacks, calling on the US and UN to support Turkey's assault, but PKK leader Duzdan Hammo insists reports of the attacks have been exaggerated and misconstrued.
A Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City, Mo., was diverted Tuesday morning after a passenger allegedly tried to break into the cockpit.
The two men touted as Republican frontrunners - Rick Perry and Mitt Romney - resisted, with great difficulty, an urge to get into a physical fight during a tense GOP presidential debate on Tuesday.
In the midst of a heated verbal sparring session, Romney apparently tried to physically intimidate his opponent by placing a hand on his rival's shoulder, after being visibly annoyed by the Texas Gov.'s repeated interruptions.
Pakistan hopes to win a seat on the U.N. Security Council as a temporary member alongside archrival India when the United Nations holds annual elections to the 15-nation body on Friday.
Right-wing pundit Glenn Beck's latest mission seems to be converting a former site of Gateway Church into his new multimedia studio. Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts has put forward a request to the city of Southlake to rezone the 13.67 acres at 2121 E. Southlake Blvd. that used to house Gateway Church's worship center into a zone that would house radio, television, Internet broadcasting and production studio uses, NBC reported. The company is waiting for an approval.
Biocon Ltd, India top biotechnology company, reported a 4 percent drop in quarterly profit due to higher energy costs and rise in wages, but said strong demand from branded formulations offered opportunities for growth.
On Tuesday night's episode of 'The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took aim at Republicans who claim that the growing 'Occupy' movement is a divisive phenomenon that pits Americans against other Americans.
Naomi Wolf, the feminist activist and author, was arrested outside the 2011 Huffington Post Game Changers Awards on Tuesday as she defended Occupy Wall Street protestors.
Christopher Nolan will film scenes for the third Batman movie in NYC this month, and as new teasers for locations near Occupy Wall Street, photos from recent fight scenes, and casting calls for law enforcement training add fuel to rumors, it looks like OWS may be a backdrop for the film.
Unconventional times require unconventional measures. It is time for the American people to start a public, federal bank?
When Susan Sarandon called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi, numerous religious groups condemned the actress, and rightly so. In a bizarre and disturbing twist, however, Sarandon's notoriety has now spread to her support of Occupy Wall Street, with many grouping her comments and her activism as examples of liberal ignorance and hypocrisy. In the process, we lose the opportunity to condemn the use of rampant Nazi and Hitler comparisons in general, a widespread phenomenon recorded en ma...
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Wednesday he will propose a flat tax as part of an overhaul of the U.S. tax code as he seeks to claw his way back to the top tier of the 2012 race.
Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Rick Santorum was exaggerating on Tuesday when he said a healthcare plan that his opponent Mitt Romney put in place in Massachusetts put a big dent in his state's budget.
A confident Mitt Romney criticized his Republican rivals and fended off attacks on Tuesday at a feisty debate that could help reinstall him as the party's presidential front-runner.
Republican presidential hopefuls meet at Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas on Tuesday for the eighth debate in their race for their party's nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said banks' reasoning for imposing consumer debit card fees was "disingenuous."
A picture is all that is left at a woman's home at Dale Farm, the now-evicted Irish Traveller community in Essex, England that was cleared in a controversial and violent manner on Wednesday.
A group of 35 progressive Democrats has asked the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Committee -- the super committee -- to end billions of dollars worth of tax subsidies for the fossil fuels industry.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wants Senate leaders to reject a bill that would allow concealed gun permits to be recognized across state lines.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated Patrick Foye, a top economic advisor, as executive director of the Port Authority, the bi-state agency responsible for regional bridges, tunnels and airports.
Authorities used a search warrant Wednesday to block baby Lisa Irwin's Kansas City home from her parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, and to further scour the home and yard with shovels, rakes, and ladders. Attention has once again turned to Deborah Bradley, baby Lisa's mother, who has changed her story a few times during the investigation. Bradley admitted that she had been drinking heavily the night Lisa disappeared and says she may have even blacked out.
Herman Cain's defense of his 9-9-9 plan is always the same: that the critics are misrepresenting his proposals. But he doesn't explain what the misrepresentations are.
Naomi Wolf, feminist author and activist, was arrested by NYPD as she defended Occupy Wall Street protestors on Tuesday at an awards ceremony for Governor Andrew Cuomo, organized by the Huffington Post.
The foreign ministry in Beijing said the suicides were a form of terrorism in disguise
Such a union, Putin indicated, would be designed to help member states in coordinating currency and economic policies.
Essex Police successfully evicted the Irish Traveller residents of Dale Farm on Wednesday. But who are the travellers and why are they so hated?
Ever since Rick Perry's GOP rivals began lambasting him for signing a bill granting undocumented immigrant children in-state tuition at Texas universities, immigration has emerged as a key litmus test for verifying the conservative credentials of the men and women seeking the Republican nomination. It was not always so -- a debate between Bush and Reagan struck a far softer tone.
While GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry shed their poker faces, openly duking it out over immigration, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she thought Newt Gingrich went home as victor of the CNN Western Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas Tuesday night
Weep not for Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and the rest of the candidates vying for the GOP nomination.
