Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday that threatened sanctions against Syria if it didn't stop military crackdown against civilians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Israel has dismissed its deputy ambassador in Washington over a leak to the media about secret discussions involving the United States, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
State Bank Of India does not expect overseas borrowing costs to rise significantly but sees medium-term note borrowing costs rising 1-2 basis points, its chairman said on Wednesday, a day after Moody's cut its rating and sent its shares skidding.
The Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has now become something of a Mecca for marine scientists, particularly those who study sharks. On Tuesday, the island nation passed a bill creating the world's largest sanctuary for sharks.
More than 70 people were killed as Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels hit the centre of the capital with a truck bomb.
Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin held on for a slim victory in a special election for governor of West Virginia Tuesday, narrowly preventing a third state special election embarrassment for President Barack Obama.
Greece will default on its debts, Ireland could too and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be forced out as Europe's financial crisis plays out, author Michael Lewis predicted on Tuesday.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dashed hopes on Tuesday that he might make a late leap into the 2012 Republican presidential race in a move that sets up a battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
Former pizza executive Herman Cain is now tied with Mitt Romney for the lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, while former front-runner Rick Perry has taken a steep fall, according to a CBS News poll released on Tuesday.
Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican, decried partisanship in Washington in a speech on the Senate floor.
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill preventing local authorities from banning the practice of male circumcision. The bill, which takes effect immediately, comes in the wake of an effort by a San Francisco group opposed to male circumcision to enforce a city-wide ban of the practice in a November ballot measure.
Copenhagen officials expect the levy to generate almost 2.2?billion Danish kroner ($390-million) for the government.
Pick-up trucks became a common sight in battle, and could be seen as the symbol of the popular anti-Gadhafi residence. Mechanics attached cannons and rocket launchers to flatbeds and cars carries troops across the country.
Three monks have tried to burn themselves to death in the past week – a total of five have done so over the past six months.
Occupy Wall Street protesters benefited from labor's well-organized support, but unions have also gained from the demonstrations.
An American mother and her son were two of four people shot to death in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on Tuesday.
Since Sept. 20, 2011, Apple shares had already declined 9.4 percent before Tuesday’s trading session.
Hank Williams Jr. says the comparison between Obama and Hitler was misunderstood, and claims the Tea Party gets away with more.
South Africa and Zambia have approved the $1.1 billion bid by China's Jinchuan Group for copper and cobalt producer Metorex, bringing closer prospects for the deal to be finalised by November.
Yields on the reopened Kenyan two-year Treasury bond are expected to jump beyond those on short-term Treasury bills, given the anticipated hike in the central bank's benchmark rate on Wednesday, traders said.
Sudan's central bank said on Tuesday export traders needed to repay foreign currency gains within three months instead of six, the latest measure to fight a scarcity of dollars driving up inflation.
The settlement between Four Loko and the FTC is only the latest chapter in a history of government curtailing specific drinks
Chris Christie makes a firm decision to stay out of the 2012 presidential race after reconsidering his previous decision.
South Africa's rand steadied against the rand on Tuesday and government bonds edged higher as tentative calm returned to the market although local assets are still vulnerable to contagion fears over Greece's heavy debt burden.
Turkish Prime Tayyip Erdogan visited South Africa on Tuesday, the latest stop in a diplomatic drive into the resource-rich continent whose attention is increasingly fixed on emerging market relationships rather than old commercial ties to Europe.
Tanzania has arrested seven suspected Somali pirates after an attack on an oil and gas exploration ship operated by Brazilian petroleum company Petrobras off the coast of the east African country.
Muammar Gaddafi's former prime minister said on Tuesday he believed the deposed leader was still in Libya and would carry on fighting the country's new leaders until the end.
Chris Christie has stated flatly he will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
The U.S. Senate is as mad as you-know-what and it's apparently not going to take it anymore: the Senate Tuesday voted overwhelmingly, 79-19, to approve a procedural measure that speeds the way for a bill designed to put pressure on China to allow its currency to appreciate.
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, cancelled a trip to South Africa planned for this week that had put Pretoria in a bind between its biggest trading partner China and one of its modern heroes, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.
