Sgt. Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants and held for five years, will likely return home Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for his family on Friday.
An Occupy Wall Street protester who was punched by a police officer following Friday morning's Occupy Wall Street march said the officer should get tested for HIV, since he drew blood.
Canadian manufacturing sales rose almost three times higher than expected in August and offered more evidence that the economy is on track for modest growth in the third quarter after a slump in the second.
The 44-year-old educator from Beziers, who has not been named, poured gasoline over herself in the school's playground and lit herself ablaze.
A U.S. Navy Veteran is suing the Department of Veteran Affairs after the agency denied her spousal disability benefits, citing a federal law that defines marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline engaged in a pattern of misconduct while investigating abortion providers, a report said.
Al Gore links several environmental disasters, including the Great Lakes' algae problem, to climate change.
he controversial Obedient Wives Club in Malaysia has issued radical suggestions on sex and marital relations since it was formed last year.
Royal Bank of Scotland plc (NYSE: RBS), is the "most vulnerable" bank in Europe and may have to raise billions of dollars to strengthen its capital ratios, warned analysts at Credit Suisse. Dozens of British banks, including RBS, released results of new stress tests form to the European Banking Authority on Thursday.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading around the world. There are now protests in Spain, England, Hong Kong. Italy is next in line. Can the international movement be sustained?
Pathum Thani, a town only 30 miles north of Bangkok, is already heavily flooded.
Half of all Americans have heard of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and of the people who have heard of it, a plurality support its message, according to a poll released this week.
If one is honest, we can't say for certain that senior Iranian leaders actually approved a thwarted operation to kill Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States. There is, after all, no undeniable proof. But if one is still being honest, we can't say for certain that they were not behind it.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a confidence vote in parliament by a hair on Friday, taking the exact number of votes required to win.
Bashir has been welcomed in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe by government officials in order to attend a trade summit.
Invigorated by the news that they would be allowed to remain in their base camp of Zuccotti Park, the Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets Friday for a frenetic protest that resembled a cat-and-mouse game with police officers.
Health officials campaign to lower obesity levels in England.
The credit agency’s downgrade of Spain follows a similar cut by Fitch Ratings last week.
Wall Street's commute Friday morning was disrupted as a band of hundreds involved with the Occupy Wall Street protest marched the streets of Lower Manhattan to Wall Street, obstructed by police and followed by dozens of reporters with cameras flashing. Police were seen making at least several arrests.
The owner of Zuccotti Park postponed a plan to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from the park in order to clean it, averting a looming clash between authorities and hundreds of protesters thronging the park.
The owners of Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, site of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, announced before dawn Friday they will postpone their scheduled cleanup of the area, possibly heading off a massive confrontation between protesters and police.
Libyan government forces brought more tanks into the city of Sirte Friday to try to break the last pocket of resistance by loyalists of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown.
Salim stands between the sleeping bodies of two men on the floor of the room where they live as his father helps him get ready for school, straightening the dark tie of his school uniform.
One of the largest private investors in failed solar firm Solyndra recommended the company's panels for a U.S. Navy contract at a time when the company was struggling with cash flow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
G20 finance chiefs and central bank heads meet in Paris on Friday urgently needing to find a convincing solution to a deepening euro zone debt crisis that has fanned fears of a global slide into recession.
President Barack Obama warned Iran on Thursday it would face the toughest possible sanctions for an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as Treasury officials eyed action against the Iranian central bank.
George Soros says he isn't a financial backer of the Wall Street protests, despite speculation by critics including radio host Rush Limbaugh that the billionaire investor has helped fuel the anti-capitalist movement.
Congress passed the Protect Life Act Thursday evening. The bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa), is an attempt to bar federal funds from going towards health care plans that cover abortions. The bill, HR 385, prohibits women who are under the Affordable Care Act to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion, even though most health insurance plans do in fact cover abortions.
A compelling question concerning the nation's current political culture is: what has happened to the Republican Party? President Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party's first president, elected in 1860. But do the values of today's Tea Party faction-dominated Republican Party match the values of Lincoln?
Harrisburg Bankruptcy Shows Borrowers No Longer Willing To Be Shamed Into Surrender
