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China's defense ministry warned that the deal with Taiwan has caused serious damage to Sino-US military relations.

Attacking the U.S., September 11, NATO and a number of other topics, Iran's President Ahmadinejad gave a long, controversial address to the United Nations. Full text reprinted here.

The execution, or murder as some call it, of Troy Davis that stirred controversies all over the world also appears unjust and outdated in the eyes of former President Jimmy carter, and the process should have slowed down in the eyes of former President Bill Clinton.

Insisting that the United Kingdom is still a top-tier military power, West decried the aforementioned European countries as “second rate.”

The trip is being hailed as an historic visit, and the Pope will speak before German parliament, meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff and lead a mass. About 100 parliamentarians have already boycotted Benedict's speech, and thousands of people have gathered to protest his presence.

U.S. stocks are suffering a massive sell-off, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeting more than 400 points, in the wake of a grim outlook from the Federal Reserve. Treasuries are rallying, the yield on the 10-Year note is at 1.76 percent, an all-time low.

Tabloid rumors are being taken more seriously than usual

Libya's interim rulers said on Thursday they had further consolidated their control over Sahara desert towns that had been among Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds, and said Gaddafi himself was running out of places to hide.

Whitman, who failed to become Republican Governor of California last year after spending tens of millions of dollars in the campaign, is a highly controversial choice to lead the troubled HP.

While New York City as a whole has endured the recession better than the rest of the country, it has also seen a surge in poverty that outpaced the rest of the nation, according to U.S. Census data.

Don't count her out just yet, because former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she is still considering making a run for the White House next year.

After 85 of 150 voting districts have been tallied, Sata leads the race with 43 percent of the vote, compared to President Banda's 36 percent. However, Banda still leads in the most recent opinion polls.

Not everyone is convinced that Perry will actually come out ahead at the end of this long race.

The U.S. Federal Reserve intervened in the U.S. economy Thursday – the central bank did what investors thought they would do, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average still fell more than 270 points. What’s going on?

Since mid-February, HP stock has lost more than half its value.

September has proved to be a tough month for technology boards of directors who seem to be foundering, and not leading their companies. The result may be that customers wonder who's designing the products.

U.S. stocks have opened sharply lower in Thursday morning trading following an overnight plunge in global markets. Equities have tumbled largely in response to the Federal Reserve’s grim warning about the state of the U.S. economy and the establishment bond swap program.

Zambia held presidential elections Tuesday, but two days later only 85 of the country's 150 constituencies have reported results, sparking wide-scale unrest in the country and again bringing up fraud allegations. While all eyes are on Zambia, one nation's gaze is especially fixed: China.

Attorneys for Full Tilt Poker denied charges that the poker Web site is a Ponzi scheme that cheats customers out of their money, suggesting that the Web site's woes stemmed from mismanagement rather than deliberate theft.

Talk is cheap that the U.S. is merely in slow-growth mode more than two years after the official end to the recession, says Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the collapse of the U.S. housing market and predicted the 2008 recession.

Foreign equities tumbled largely in response to the Federal Reserve’s grim warning about the state of the U.S. economy.

If the early volley is any indicator, the campaign of Elizabeth Warren, Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, will feature populist, public interest, and social contract themes.

FBR Capital Markets anticipates that Congress will be unable to pass legislation to lower the loan limits below $625,500 until at least 2013, and expects that it could be even longer.

The determined efforts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to push for United Nations membership met with the stiffest resistance Wednesday when U.S. President Barack Obama made it clear he will veto any resolution recommending UN membership to Palestine.

Europe's debt crisis is the biggest threat to the global economy, the Treasury said on Wednesday, and it called on European policymakers to provide unequivocal support to banks and governments under stress.

MoD Finally Ready to Compensate Bloody Sunday Massacre Victims. Britain’s Ministry of Defence is finally ready to pay compensation to the families of those killed or injured in the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Northern Ireland in 1972

Global Economic Crisis: Are we Better or Worse off than 2008? The Greek economic crisis is at the heart of the problems of the world economic crisis and for as long as France and Germany continue to ignore the realities that Greece must be allowed default on its debts, the European and world economies will suffer the consequences.

A meeting of emerging economies on Thursday will consider a Brazilian proposal to buy European bonds to help crisis-hit euro zone countries, South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday.

Six people were killed and at least 50 wounded when three car bombs exploded in the capital of the Muslim Dagestan region in Russia's North Caucasus, an Interior Ministry source and Islamist rebels said Thursday.