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A breakthrough was reached yesterday between Dutch-speaking and Francophone parties in the world’s longest negotiations to form a new governing coalition that lasted for a record 15 months after elections were held.

Two bioethics professors have said that they are willing to pay $11,000 for medical records that could prove that the story Michele Bachmann told about the toxicity of HPV vaccine, after Monday night's GOP presidential debate, is true.

Pakistan had no confirmation Friday that al-Qaida's chief of operations in the country had been killed in a recent drone strike in the northwestern tribal region, as reported by American officials.

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor, has been hit by shocking allegations that before she got married she had sex with Miami Heat star Glen Rice and she took cocaine years ago while snowboarding with her husband, Todd, and friends.

State-run oil firms will raise petrol prices by nearly 5 percent from Friday, a move that eases their subsidy burden but adds near-term pressure to stubbornly high inflation in Asia's third-largest economy.

Swiss bank, UBS AG, said it has suffered a $2 billion loss due to rogue trading and the London police arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of fraud.

Science is key to rebuilding earthquake-damaged Haiti, according to a new report.

On Thurday, the Virginia Board of Health voted to enact regulations on abortion clinics that would require many to undergo expensive renovations that could lead to their closure.

Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin, told reporters Thursday that Joe McGinniss's book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, is full of disgusting lies, innuendos and smears.

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs warned the Cherokee Nation that the U.S. government will not recognize the tribe's new principal chief if it does not reverse its decision to revoke tribal citizenship from the descendants of African American slaves.

The U.S. Postal Service has named 252 more mail processing facilities that may close because of budget cuts, less than two months after it released an initial list of nearly 3,700 at-risk post offices. Megan Brennan, the agency's chief operating officer, told ABC News that the closures would eliminate 35,000 jobs.

More than 30 snail species to be considered for protection under Endangered Species list.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Thursday wasn't bashful and certainly wasn't partisan about what he thinks Congress' bipartisan super committee, tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction, should do to achieve that goal.

Two bioethics professors are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who shows them medical records proving Michele Bachmann's claim that the HPV vaccine made a girl mentally retarded.

Glen Rice thought Sarah Palin was a sweetheart and respectful, according to a new book that alleges the former basketball player and the former Alaskan governor had a one-time fling.

The Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains, among others, have partnered with Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, and will make big changes to their menus to provide healthier food for children.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Thursday wasn't bashful and certainly wasn't partisan about what he thinks Congress' bipartisan super committee, tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction, should do to achieve that goal.

Between 2009 and 2010, the percentage of Asian-Americans living in poverty actually edged down to 12.1 percent from 12.5 percent.

The International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for growth in Ivory Coast on Thursday, citing a faster-than-expected rebound in industrial and agricultural production since the end of a post-election conflict.

South African President Jacob Zuma will appoint a commission to investigate a multi-billion dollar arms deal, his office said on Thursday, in a new probe into corruption allegations against several companies and top officials including Zuma himself.

Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron landed in Libya to a heroes' welcome on Wednesday, promising help for the new rulers that French and British air power helped to install and being told the favour may be repaid in business contracts.

The drought, which started in the fall of 2010 and hit eight provinces, has already touched more than 44 million people and cost the agriculture industry $4.5 billion,

Maryland's Democratic governor Martin O'Malley simultaneously lauded Texas Gov. Rick Perry and handed Perry's presidential opponents ammunition on Thursday by praising Perry's willingness to break with Republican dogma on immigration policy.

According to local reports the destruction was condemned by both Singhalese and Muslims alike.

The U.S. Postal Service may never be the same, with First Class delivery service expected to slow down amid proposed cuts. Saturday delivery could end.. The latest plan from the post office, gripped with slowing business and costs and nearing default, would likely alter the delivery time of First Class mail. By closing more than half of the agency's 487 mail-processing facilities in a plan announced Thursday.

His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo, and smears, Todd Palin said

The world's major central banks, led by the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve, in a coordinated effort Thursday intervened to provide dollar loans to commercial banks in an effort to maintain liquidity in Europe and check institutional investor concern about Europe's private sector banks. What will be the impact on U.S. stocks?

Courts in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced four people to death for violence in two cities over the summer which left 32 people dead, a government website said.

A China unit of major lead-acid battery maker Johnson Controls has halted production at its Shanghai factory as authorities investigate into an alleged lead pollution case, the official Shanghai Securities News said on Thursday.