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Moody's decision to review France's triple-A credit rating cast new doubt on Tuesday on Europe's hopes of drawing a line under its sovereign debt crisis, five days before a crucial EU summit.

Israel and Hamas on Tuesday morning started exchange of prisoners. Hamas handed over Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who has been held since June 2006, to Egypt in exchange of Palestinian prisoners.

The BSE Sensex fell more than 1.5 percent on Tuesday, dragged down by IT stocks after Tata Consultancy Services reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings and said the outlook for pricing was tough.

Kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians will return home Tuesday in an exchange with the Hamas movement that rules Gaza that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a historic deal.

A long-awaited prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas began before dawn Tuesday when the first of hundreds of Palestinian inmates were bused from their jails to border crossings where they will be swapped for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Ford (F), which did not accept U.S. Government assistance, has rebounded after a restructuring, and is well-positioned to capitalize on U.S. job growth, when it returns with gusto. Is now a good time to consider Ford's shares?

A newly released Zogby poll puts Herman Cain ahead of all other Republican contenders with 45 percent.

The American Association of Retired Person (AARP) is not politically subtle regarding its latest t.v. advertising campaign -- it says, in so many words -- Congressman or Congresswoman: if you cut benefits from Social Security or Medicare -- you'll be voted out of public office.

In bold, but achievable economic plan, Ron Paul pledges to eliminate five cabinet positions and dramatically reduce the presidential salary.

A report from McGraw Hill Construction found that green jobs now make up one-third of the positions in the design and construction workforce, a figure that is only expected to grow this decade.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has garnered support from the likes of Kanye West, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins. With Monday came the revelation of a new group of supporters perhaps even more important than celebrity figures -- New York City voters.

Another week, another Republican presidential debate. The candidates competing for the Republican nomination to take on President Barack Obama go at it again on Tuesday night in Las Vegas in their eighth televised debate -- the fifth since early September.

President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate proposed a bill on Monday to enact into law a portion of his popular $447 billion jobs program that Republicans blocked last week.

Unlike Senator John McCain who presented himself as a maverick in the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican hopeful Herman Cain is a true political outsider.

Inside the Texas governor's big, black SUV rides a small-town girl who never expected to be first lady of the state. Anita Perry, the wife of Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry, is still a nurse at heart, reaching out to friends and strangers with warmth and health advice. But the quiet blonde who first dated Perry in high school has blossomed over the years into a formidable partner in his political career.

Herman Cain, author of the 9-9-9 plan and GOP presidential hopeful, can now add Internet sensation to his resume after the Omaha World-Herald posted his 1991 Rendition of Imagine (There's No Pizza), a leftover from his Godfather CEO days.

The Obama administration is abandoning a long-term care program in the 2010 U.S. health care reform law because it is financially unsustainable, but experts say there is great need for the program.

Florida's Occupy Miami movement just getting started with protestors camping out at Government Center.

The U.S. Supreme Court justices will decide the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, which criminalizes false public comments about receiving military awards.

Herman Cain says he was just making a joke about deterring illegal immigrants from coming into America with electrocution at the border. His so-called joke, told to two crowds in Tennessee where the GOP presidential candidate was campaigning last week, went like this: It's giong to be 20 feet high, Cain said, according to The New York Times. It's going to have barbed wire at the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, ...

Hundreds of al-Shabab fighters have amassed at a location where they believe Kenyan forces that crossed into.

As the Indian Pt Nuclear Plant's license term draws to an end, two environmental groups have published a report revealing the hazards posed by the plant and a list of alternative power supplies in a hardheaded battle to prevent the plant's license from being renewed.

As his profile and poll numbers grow, so has the scrutiny on Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan

Despite reports Monday claiming he would throw his support behind Mitt Romney, Senator Jim DeMint said he had not decided who he would support in the Republican presidential primary -- or even if he would offer an endorsement.

An NYPD officer was and charged with federal crime for allegedly violating a man's civil rights.

China's Foreign Ministry said Monday global protests sparked by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States were a cause for reflection, but the reflection should be focused on ensuring the world's healthy economic growth.

China is steeling itself for another presidential election in rambunctiously democratic Taiwan, hoping a victory for the ruling Nationalists enables even better ties but also girding for an opposition win that may inflame tensions.

According to an AFL-CIO report, Immelt made about $15.2 million last year.

Occupy Seattle protesters were removed from Westlake Park Monday morning when Seattle police and parks employees took down all 150 tents and arrested nine people.