Gunmen have stormed a bar in Burundi killing at least 36 people, the deadliest attack in the Central African country this year that has heightened fears of a return to civil war.
Zambia's police chief deployed thousands of officers across the southern African country on Monday, the eve of a closely contested election between incumbent Rupiah Banda and nationalist opposition leader Michael Sata.
For IBM’s Watson supercomputer, there’s more than being a champion at “Jeopardy.” Early in 2012, medical professionals at WellPoint expect to tap its computer brain to serve 34 million subscribers.
Palestinian leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to seek United Nations membership -- a stance that puts them at odds with the U.S. position. The Obama administration maintains that direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians remains the only route to reconciliation.
But the payment to the Dowlers may only be the beginning of News International’s expected largesse to phone hacking victims.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is leaderless and mostly peaceful, but it's been a powerful force in disrupting activity on and around New York's Wall Street since starting on Saturday.
The New York Republican party has tapped the man who orchestrated Bob Turner's stunning win of Anthony's Weiner's vacated congressional seat to help the party try to win more races in 2012, according to the New York Post.
Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama should step aside in 2012 to make way for Hillary Clinton, wrote Steve Chapman, an editorial writer at the Chicago Tribune, in a column.
The U.S. has been stepping up its efforts to mediate between both Israel and Turkey -- its critical allies in the region
Former President Bill Clinton suggested former Vice President Dick Cheney was trying to cause a rift among Democrats by suggesting that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenge Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in the 2012 presidential election.
Republicans are saying President Barack Obama's unveiling of a $3 trillion long-term deficit reduction plan -- dubbed the Buffett Rule -- that relies upon raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans is political posturing and window dressing.
Gunmen killed 36 people at a bar in the city of Gatumba, near the Congolese border on Monday. The proximity to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo has led Burundian government officials to believe that the killers came from Congo.
Canadian Labor Minister Lisa Raitt was set to meet representatives of Air Canada and its flight attendants' union on Monday afternoon to try to avert a strike at the country's largest airline.
The issue of Palestine is also likely to occupy Erdogan’s time.
International lenders told Greece on Monday it must shrink its public sector and improve tax collection to avoid default within weeks as investors spooked by political setbacks in Europe dumped risky euro zone assets.
The controversy erupted after a female student at Binus University in Jakarta was gang-raped on public minivan and later killed by her attackers.
China urged regional powers on Monday to restart moribund nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, with its foreign minister Yang Jiechi defending Beijing as an honest broker seeking to defuse confrontation with Pyongyang.
Bill Clinton reminds me of a washed-up, retired major league ballplayer who misses the spotlight and cheering crowds so much that he will do anything to remain relevant and in the public eye.
Who are the protestors who are occupying the heart of the world's financial capital on Wall Street? And what do they want?
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles in Atlanta will on Monday determine the fate of Troy Davis, a convicted cop killer whose impending execution has spurred global protests as advocates point to what they see as a faulty conviction.
The death toll has risen to 53 people in Sikkim, India, where a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sunday night. About ten of the deaths occurred in Nepal, primarily in the capital of Katmandu, where a series of building collapses trapped people under debris.
Although President Obama’s new deficit reduction plan will be portrayed as a tax hike, in reality, it by and large returns the tax code, with a few exceptions, to levels that existed prior to the 2001 Bush income tax cut -- a cut that fundamentally altered the U.S.'s fiscal and economic trajectory. The nation has been trying to recover ever since.
Toward fulfilling the mission to observe the most distant objects in the universe, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was newly dressed with giant mirrors coated with gold - a spectacularly new technology fit for its grand mission.
The Pirate Party scored a huge victory in Germany, winning 9 percent of the votes cast in the Berlin state election.
In the second quarter of 2011, the bank lost an astounding $8.8-billion, partially due to the burden of its enormous mortgage/legal liabilities.
Blair was flown to Tripoli on Gaddafi’s private jets at the Colonel’s expense.
Around 50 people were killed during two days of anti-government protests in Sanaa, Yemen. According to reports, pro-government forces used snipers to kill demonstrators.
European equity markets are again plunging in Monday trading largely on fears of a Greek default.
Chinese media also reported that villagers blamed the factory’s pollution for causing at least 31 cases of cancer in the nearby village of Hongxiao.
The Occupy Wall Street protest is disrupting Wall Street for a third consecutive day -- this time when the stock market will open. New York City police are limiting access to Wall Street Monday morning, requiring residents and workers in blocks surrounding the New York Stock Exchange to show identification.
