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Libya's interim leaders failed to agree a new cabinet on Sunday and the forces that forced Muammar Gaddafi from power remained bogged down in fighting with troops loyal to the former ruler.

Libya's interim leaders failed to agree a new Cabinet Sunday and the forces that forced Moammar Gadhafi from power remained bogged down in fighting with troops loyal to the former ruler.

A low-intensity blast at a hospital in the tourist city of Agra injured at least three people on Saturday, a local police official said.

President Barack Obama, in a rallying call to his Democratic base, will vow on Monday to veto any cuts in Medicare if Congress fails to raise taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans to curb the U.S. deficit.

Germany's Social Democrats beat Angela Merkel's conservatives in a regional vote in Berlin on Sunday, handing the chancellor her sixth election defeat this year ahead of a key euro zone vote in parliament in two weeks.

China should refrain from boosting credit and fiscal spending again as stimulus measures to avoid fueling inflation and pushing up government debt, Wu Xiaoling, a former deputy central bank governor said in remarks published on Monday.

It could almost be scripted. A U.S. politician threatens to take China on if he makes the White House. The official Chinese press level a barrage of criticism laced with sarcasm. Beijing's Foreign Ministry steps in offering a milder diplomatic response.

Residents of a village in east China accused riot police of heavy-handed tactics after a three-day protest against a solar panel factory accused of dumping toxic waste was brought to an end on Sunday.

President Barack Obama will once-again try to right the nation's fiscal ship of state by proposing a new tax levy for U.S. taxpayers whose income exceeds $1 million per year. Congressional Republicans have already said they're opposed to the levy, but it remains to be seen whether that latter view will hold amid a public that wants upper-income groups to pay more in taxes.

Rep. Ron Paul won the California straw poll on Saturday, receiving almost half of all the votes.

Wall Street was blocked off by the New York City Police Department for a second day in a row as demonstration organizers targeting Wall Street financial firms tried to keep up protests.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett misses the mark more often than most people realize, but his view, shared by President Barack Obama, that the richest Americans should be taxed at the same rate as middle-class Americans, is on the money.

Middleton is currently visiting a number of philanthropic organizations and will decide on which ones she will support by the end of the year, according to a St. James Palace spokesperson.

Sen. Chuck Schumer calls for national arsenic standard.

President Barack Obama will propose a new minimum tax rate for U.S. taxpayers who make more than $1 million to help lower the nation's $1.5 trillion long-term debt, according to media reports. This plan will be adopted from a suggestion made by billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's boastful conversations about his sexual encounters with eight women in one night, were wire-tapped as part of the ongoing investigation into an alleged prostitution ring surrounding him.

Republican leaders have officially come out against all of the main proposals in President Obama's jobs plan -- including the tax cuts. But if tax cuts for small businesses are now off the table, it's unclear what the Republican alternative is.

Tea Party activist David Lewis will challenge House Speaker John Boehner in next year's Republican primary, running almost exclusively on an anti-abortion platform, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

A new poll found that Obama's approval rating was only 43 percent, largely because of his handling of the still-slumping economy. But on several key issues, Republican candidates like Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann were also unpopular, even within their own party.

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann drew a rousing reception from Republicans at their California convention on Friday, raising hopes the Tea Party favorite might be able to put a faltering campaign back in gear.

Wedding Crashers star Vince Vaughn introduced Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex, Friday night at the Liberty Political Action Conference, or LPAC, in Reno, Nevada.

Protestors involved with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration have started their pilgrimage toward Wall Street, where they have started to set up camp for an indeterminable amount of time in order to curb the influence of big business over Washington lawmakers.

Presidents, most governors and senators have to be as sterile, inoffensive, lackluster and bland as possible.

Kara Kennedy, the daughter of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, died suddenly Friday evening at a Washington-area health club, NBC News reported. The cause was a heart attack, according to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston, which announced the death.

The fact of the matter is that violent crime in the United States has been falling across the board for at least the past five or six years.

Brown explained that the financial woes in Europe are, at their essence, a crisis in banking, not debt.

The pact remains subject to approval by the union’s rank-and-file membership.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg cautioned Friday that social unrest in the United States could ensue if action is not taken by policy makers to create jobs and lower the U.S.'s high 9.1 percent unemployment rate.

Since March, California employers have added only a net 11,000 jobs.