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China's economic outlook is positive, but it must keep battling inflation and be ready to counteract any external shocks, the country's top central banker said on Saturday.

Bringing a blow to Texas Governor Rick Perry's favorite status, former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain has emerged as the winner of the Presidency 5 straw poll Saturday. Cain received 37 percent of the 2,657 votes cast.

Morgan Freeman has stirred controversy by calling the Tea Party racist, for having an anti-Obama agenda based on his skin color.

Rick Santorum wants Google to remove results that link his name to anal sex, but Google won't do it.

Herman Cain won the Florida presidential straw poll on Saturday in a stunning upset, getting more votes than Rick Perry and Mitt Romney combined. Are we looking at a reshaped race for the Republican nomination?

Even as G-20 leaders grapple with the global financial crisis, a larger, over-arching concern is limiting GDP growth in the U.S., and, to a lesser degree, in other developed economies and, by extension, decreasing the capacity of the these nations to counteract the crisis: inadequate wage growth.

In the first half of 2011, the United States registered two straight quarters of sub-par GDP growth, and the risk of a double-dip recession has increased. With consumer spending and business investment lagging, that leaves it up to the public sector to fill the gap. Accordingly, here are five programs to increase U.S. GDP growth.

In a major political surprise, Florida Republican Herman Cain scored a victory in the state's GOP presidential straw poll.

Rick Santorum's failure to condemn the audience members who booed a gay soldier was nearly as bad as making a homophobic remark himself.

Rick Perry's rise to the top of Republican field has taken a blow recently, especially after Thursday's Fox News/Google Republican debate, leading to gains for Mitt Romney.

The freed slaves are reportedly between the ages of 16 and 24.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and commander of Apollo 11, said the United States risks squandering 5 decades of space research, work, and accomplishments, if the nation does not find ways to restore hope and confidence in NASA, as part of a unified sense of purpose on space exploration.

Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has said she is not a homophobe, but that she was defending her mother during a heated exchange at a West Hollywood bar.

Vladimir Putin confirmed he will seek the Russian presidency in an election next March.

Due to the lingering government debt crisis in Europe and a 9.1 percent U.S. unemployment rate, key economic statistics are pointing to slow-growth conditions in the U.S. for the next two quarters, and a double-dip recession is possible. Is there anything Congress can do to create jobs and get the U.S. economy moving again?

Two men were picked up after activists posted pictures and names of the alleged rapists online.

Ahmadinejad said Iran and Russia are “neighbors” and that “neighbors must be friends with one another.

Adoboli is hardly the first UBS employee to engage in questionable conduct.

A California councilman named Derek Reeve is under fire for he avowed in a council meeting on Sept. 6 that he named one of his two dogs after Muhammad-- the Muslim prophet. However, Muslims regard dog as unclean. The other dog is named America.

For former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, there's no time like the present to jump into the 2012 race for the Republican Party's nomination. But will she choose to join the race?

A new word is needed in the political lexicon to describe the phenomenon of Republican presidential candidates tripping over one another in their rush to the right: out-conservativing.

While the national unemployment rate is 9.1 percent (and Illinois has a 10 percent rate), Pembroke’s jobless rate stands at an astounding 50 percent.

Obviously, the pressure got to him and he made a sudden turnabout.

Bank stocks are clearly trading as if a redux of Lehman Brothers is imminent.

In 2008, Americans ushered in a new era when they voted the first black president into the White House. But if you ask Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman, racism has only gotten worse, not better, once President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

As they warned they would, Solyndra executives repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment Friday as House lawmakers peppered them with questions regarding the solar company's financial collapse.

Ending the ongoing speculations in Russia over the next presidential candidate from the ruling United Russia party, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday accepted President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to stand for president in March 2012.

U.S. agencies are looking into possible similarities between the Sept. 13 attacks on U.S. and NATO targets in Afghanistan, and the November 2008 attack by militants on civilian targets in Mumbai, India.

Unfinished car shells rusting in a deserted factory in West Bengal lie testimony to flaws in a century-old land-acquisition law the government now wants to replace.Tata Motors was forced to abandon its Nano plant in 2008 after violent protests by villagers, who claimed they were forced off the land by the local government and paid inadequate compensation.